Burr Sutter

Burr Sutter

Biography

A lifelong developer advocate, community organizer, and technology evangelist, Burr Sutter is a featured speaker at technology events around the globe—from Bangalore to Brussels and Berlin to Beijing (and most parts in between)—he is currently Red Hat’s Director of Developer Experience. A Java Champion since 2005 and former president of the Atlanta Java User Group, Burr founded the DevNexus conference—now the second largest Java event in the U.S.—with the aim of making access to the world’s leading developers affordable to the developer community. When not speaking abroad, Burr is also the passionate creator and orchestrator of highly-interactive live demo keynotes at Red Hat Summit, the company’s premier annual event.

Going Native on Kubernetes with Knative
Now that Kubernetes has become the defacto standard for Linux container orchestration and the new monolith and microservices application platform, the next battle is for serverless architecture where Functions rule and there are numerous Open Source players competing for relevance in this space. Your future cloud native applications will consist of both microservces and functions, often wrapped as Linux containers, but in many cases where you the developer ignore the operational aspects of managing that infrastructure. In this session, we will be diving into Knative as serverless "base primitives" for Kubernetes.