CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] Courses

Opening the Door to Observability

Explore the impact of observability across organizations, learn strategies to advocate for investment, and understand the importance of open tools in enhancing business operations and user experiences.

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

Observing Kubernetes Networking with Cilium, Hubble, and Grafana

Explore Kubernetes networking observability using Cilium, Hubble, and Grafana. Learn to visualize application communication, debug issues, and uncover underlying problems in complex cloud-native environments.

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

The State of Production MLOps in the Cloud Native Ecosystem

Explore production MLOps challenges, best practices, and tools in the Cloud Native ecosystem. Learn key principles for deploying, monitoring, and scaling ML systems effectively.

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

Are You Really Out of GPUs? How to Better Understand Your GPU Utilization

Explore open-source tools for visualizing GPU utilization in Kubernetes clusters, enabling better decision-making for AI workload assignment and resource management.

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

Porting Python to WebAssembly

Explore Python's journey to WebAssembly support, including challenges, improvements, and emerging projects like Pyodide and PyScript in this technical deep dive.

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

Bring Your Own Bytecode to the Logging Party

Explore innovative logging solutions using WASM plugins for efficient data handling in distributed systems, enabling seamless integration and testing across browser and backend environments.

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

What is Tech Insights? Understanding and Implementing Backstage Features

Explore tech insights in Backstage: track engineering standards, visualize data, and extend functionality. Learn to manage tech health and drive company standards with practical examples.

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

Enabling Developer Experience Journey at U.S. Bank

Explore U.S. Bank's journey in enhancing developer experience through Backstage adoption, focusing on catalog, documentation, software templates, and homepage features to boost productivity and satisfaction.

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

The Evolution of Backstage Backends

Explore Backstage backend's evolution, including improvements in development and deployment. Learn about scalable augmentable systems and TypeScript API design from Spotify's maintainers.

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

Bringing Data Visualization to Backstage: Software Analytics and Developer Insights

Explore software analytics visualization in Backstage, enhancing developer experience with insights from code repositories, issue trackers, and CI/CD pipelines using open-source tools and Vega.js.

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

What We Learned During Our Journey in Using Backstage at DAZN

Insights on implementing Backstage at DAZN: technical challenges, software catalog population, plugin selection, and driving adoption among engineers. Strategies for overcoming obstacles and fostering contributions.

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

How We Scaled Catalog Ingestion to Hundreds of Thousands of Entities

Explore HP Inc.'s innovative approach to scaling Backstage for large-scale entity ingestion, featuring extended functionality and optimized processing for enterprise-level data management.

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

Leading Architectural Change with Backstage

Strategies for scaling DevOps and architecture using Backstage and CNCF stack. Learn to balance innovation with stability during rapid growth, and implement efficient processes for service deployment.

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

Measuring Developer Happiness: Analytics for Backstage

Explore Backstage Analytics API for measuring engineering productivity. Learn to collect usage data, focus on key metrics, and surface useful insights for plugin developers and adopters.

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

Building an Internal Developer Platform with Backstage Plugins

Explore five deployment use cases for creating a Heroku-like developer experience on an Internal Developer Platform using Backstage plugins, enhancing service creation, deployment, and management.

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