System Architecture and Design

Presenters Gyu Tae Bae Source CiliumCon NA 2025 Taming the BPF ARU: A Journey to Eliminate TCP Resets in Kubernetes 🚀 Ever experienced the dreaded TCP resets in your Kubernetes cluster, especially after adopting eBPF for network performance? You’re not alone! In this post, we’ll dive deep into a real-world scenario where a seemingly small issue with eBPF’s Address Resolution Unit (ARU) maps led to significant network instability. But fear not, because we’ll also uncover how to diagnose, fix, and even enhance your eBPF network solutions. ...

Presenters Adrian Mouat Cat Morris Gaurav Saxena Marcus Eagan Alex Zenla Source OpenSource SecurityCon NA 2025 Balancing the Scales: Developer Freedom vs. Security in the Age of Rapid Innovation 🚀 In today’s fast-paced tech world, the buzz around rapid innovation, especially with technologies like containers, is palpable. Developers are empowered to move at lightning speed, achieving feats previously unimaginable. But with this incredible agility comes a perennial challenge: how do we keep our systems secure without stifling that crucial developer freedom? This is the central question that sparked a fascinating discussion at a recent tech conference, and it’s one that resonates deeply with every engineering team out there. ...

Presenters Frederick Kautz Source OpenSource SecurityCon NA 2025 Navigating the Frontier: Building Secure Agentic Systems with Safe MCP 🚀 The world of AI is moving at lightning speed, and with the rise of powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) and their ever-expanding toolkits, comes a new frontier of security challenges. How do we ensure these intelligent agents are not only innovative but also safe? This is where Safe MCP steps in, offering a structured and comprehensive approach to mapping risks, threats, and mitigations for these complex systems. ...

Presenters Evan Anderson Source OpenSource SecurityCon NA 2025 Level Up Your Open Source Security: Introducing the OpenSSF Security Baseline 🚀 The world of technology is buzzing with innovation, but with great power comes great responsibility – especially when it comes to security! In today’s digital landscape, keeping our software secure isn’t just a good idea; it’s becoming a legal imperative. And when it comes to the open source projects that form the backbone of so much of our digital infrastructure, ensuring their health and security is a collective mission. That’s where the OpenSSF Security Baseline steps in, offering a guiding light for a more robust and sustainable open source future. ✨ ...

Presenters Ekansh Gupta Source ArgoCon NA 2025 Unlocking CI/CD Secrets: Deep Dive into Observability with OpenTelemetry and Argo 🚀 Ever feel like your CI/CD pipelines are operating in a black box? You push code, a workflow spins up, and then… poof… it’s either deployed successfully or it fails, leaving you scratching your head about why. If this sounds familiar, then get ready, because we’re about to pull back the curtain! This session dives deep into how to achieve end-to-end observability for your CI/CD processes, specifically focusing on the powerful duo of Argo CD and Argo Workflows, all powered by the magic of OpenTelemetry. ✨ ...