Product Engineering

Presenters Nitish Kumar Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Level Up Your Argo CD Contributions: A Guide to Local Development If you have ever considered contributing to the Argo CD project, you might have felt overwhelmed by the initial setup. At a recent talk, Nitish Kumar, a Software Engineer at Akuity, Argo CD maintainer, and CNCF Ambassador, shared his expert insights on streamlining the local development process. Argo CD is a powerful, distributed system, but its complexity can make local development feel like a daunting task. Nitish breaks down how to move from a “painful” manual workflow to a seamless, automated experience using modern tools. ...

Presenters Vanshika Jain Aditya Soni Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 The $10,000 Mistake: Taming Argo CD’s Phantom Syncs for Scalability 🚀 Ever feel like your systems are working overtime, even when they don’t need to? It’s a common problem in the tech world, and it can lead to significant performance drains and unnecessary costs. Today, we’re diving deep into a real-world scenario where a team tackled a costly issue with Argo CD’s repo server by eliminating “phantom syncs” and optimizing its architecture. ...

Presenters Anastasiia Gubska Julia Furst Morgado Joe Fuller Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Get ready to dive into the future of deployments! 🚀 We recently had the incredible opportunity to join Anastasiia Gubska from Chase UK, Julia Furst Morgado from Dash0, and Joe Fuller from Buoyant, as they illuminated the path to self-healing progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts and Linkerd. This isn’t just about faster deployments; it’s about making them smarter, safer, and self-sufficient. ...

Presenters Atulpriya Sharma Source OpenSource SecurityCon 2026 Your Most Privileged User Isn’t Human: Securing AI Agents in Production 🤖💡 Ever wonder who’s the most powerful entity in your system today? It’s probably not a human. It’s your AI agent. And while these autonomous digital workers are revolutionizing how we operate, they’re also creating gaps in our security postures that we urgently need to address. Atulpriya Sharma, a Senior Developer Advocate at Improving (formerly InfraCloud), CNCF Ambassador, and co-chair of KubeCon India 2025, recently shed light on this critical challenge. He compellingly argued that our existing security paradigms, built for humans, are simply not ready for the unique nature of AI agents. ...

Presenters Kevin Conner Firas Ghanmi Source OpenSource SecurityCon 2026 Quantum-Proofing Sigstore: Three Bold Approaches to Secure Our Software Supply Chain 🚀 The digital world runs on trust, and in the realm of software, that trust increasingly relies on robust supply chain security. Sigstore stands as a critical pillar, ensuring the integrity and authenticity of software artifacts. But what happens when the very foundations of our cryptographic security are threatened? Enter quantum computing – a game-changer that could render today’s most secure algorithms obsolete. ...