CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

The Open-Source Observability Playbook

Explore microservices, observability pillars, and open-source tracing tools like OpenTelemetry. Learn best practices for monitoring and troubleshooting distributed systems in the cloud era.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hardware for Kubernetes - Peeling Back the Layers

Explore hyperscale design and open hardware innovations for Kubernetes infrastructure, uncovering how modern hardware ecosystems optimize performance and scalability for cloud-native applications.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GitOps, DSL & App Model - Getting Started Building Developer Centric Kubernetes

Explore developer-centric Kubernetes, GitOps, and OAM to improve end-user satisfaction. Learn about higher-level abstractions, data configuration languages, and modularized CD systems.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Maximizing M3 - Pushing Performance Boundaries in a Distributed Metrics Engine at Global Scale

Explore performance optimizations in M3, an open-source distributed metrics engine, to handle billions of data points per second. Learn about identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions for improved efficiency.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Debugging Your Debugging Tools - What to Do When Your Service Mesh Goes Down in Production

Explore debugging techniques for Istio service mesh, covering sidecar proxy, control plane, configuration analysis, and production-ready deployment recommendations.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stop Breaking the Proto! Designing for Change in a Microservices World

Explore techniques for evolving protobuf contracts in microservices without breaking downstream callers. Learn design patterns to minimize API contract breaks and ensure smooth deployments.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Next Level gRPC With Kotlin and Coroutines

Explore Kotlin Coroutines for async programming in gRPC, covering API ergonomics, structured concurrency, cooperative cancellation, and ecosystem analysis for improved performance and resource utilization.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Real World Migration from HTTP to gRPC in Ruby

Explore the real-world migration from HTTP to gRPC in Ruby, covering preparation, implementation, challenges, and performance improvements in a microservices architecture.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Service Interoperability With gRPC

Explore Salesforce's gRPC-based solution for standardized service communication, including implementation details and future plans for reactive streams integration.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

From WCF to gRPC

Explore the transition from WCF to gRPC in .NET, comparing features and demonstrating how to achieve similar functionality with improved performance and interoperability.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Protop - A Package Manager for gRPC and Protocol Buffers

Explore protop, an open-source tool for publishing and sharing protocol buffers across codebases, enhancing gRPC development practices and collaboration in multi-service environments.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Talking to Go gRPC Services Via HTTP/1

Explore a technique for communicating with gRPC services through HTTP/1.1 reverse proxies, including a Go library implementation and practical demonstrations.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

A Simplified Service Mesh With gRPC

Explore gRPC's new service mesh features for microservices, offering benefits like service discovery and load balancing without sidecar proxies. Learn about architecture and implementation.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Apache Beam - Making Big Data Portable With gRPC

Explore Apache Beam's unified programming model for efficient, portable data processing pipelines. Learn about its architecture, runners, and gRPC-based portability framework for cross-language execution.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Writing REST Services for the gRPC-curious

Explore gRPC-Gateway: expose JSON/REST interfaces while maintaining gRPC benefits. Live demo showcases workflow, covering PATCH requests, middleware, authentication, and more.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk