Call For Papers (CFPs)
These are my talk submissions to various conferences and meetups.
I open sourced them so you can see examples of what CFPs look like and get your own ideas.
You can use the filter to find submissions for different conferences, years, or status.
Click on any row to see the full submission with abstract.
My current CFP acceptance rate is
16%
My current CFP acceptance rate is 16%
| Year | Title | Conference | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06 | Security down to the kernel | Cloud Native Securitycon | Submitted |
| 2024-10 | How to change a company | All Things Open | Submitted |
| 2024-03 | The state of on-prem Kubernetes | SCaLE | Accepted |
| 2024-10 | How many binaries do you need? | All Things Open | Submitted |
| 2024-08 | How many binaries do you need? | Devopsdays Minneapolis | Submitted |
| 2024-07 | TikTok Storytelling | DevRelCon | Submitted |
| 2024-07 | DevRel is Bullsh*t | DevRelCon | Submitted |
| 2024-09 | Declarative Linux with the Common Operating System Interface | SREday | Submitted |
| 2024-04 | An API for Linux | API days | Submitted |
| 2024-04 | Single Purpose Linux for Kubernetes | DevopsDays Tokyo | Rejected |
| 2024-05 | Single Purpose Linux | Stir Trek | Rejected |
| 2024-05 | I was wrong about the cloud | Stir Trek | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | The state of on-prem Kubernetes | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | I was wrong about Cloud Native Infrastructure | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | The state of on-prem Kubernetes | SREcon | Rejected |
| 2024-03 | Reliable systems with API driven Linux | SREcon | Rejected |
| 2024-02 | How we got from DevOps to Platform Engineering | Developer week | Rejected |
| 2024-02 | API Driven Linux | Developer week | Rejected |
| 2023-10 | The incredibly flexible OCI image format | Dockercon | Accepted |
| 2023-10 | Putting the "lie" in reliability | Devops Stage | Accepted |
| 2023-09 | Fast, Scalable, and Efficient Kubernetes | AWS Community Day | Cancelled |
| 2023-11 | The Road to Seamless Cluster Upgrades | Kubecon | Rejected |
| 2023-11 | ChatGPT, Deploy My Application | Kubecon | Rejected |
| 2023-09 | The world wide web of lies | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2023-09 | Don't at me | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2023-05 | Build your own game streaming service | Tailscale Up | Accepted |
| 2023-05 | The evolution of a platform | Platformcon | Rejected |
| 2023-05 | App native infrastructure | Platformcon | Rejected |
| 2023-03 | Automated, Immutable, Declarative? All Lies | Taloscon | Accepted |
| 2023-04 | What is a Wasm and how do you Kubernetes it? | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2023-04 | Kubernetes home labs for any budget | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2023-01 | How to tell better stories | You Got This | Accepted |
| 2022-10 | Cloud Native Infrastructure with Kubernetes | Gitex DevSlam | Accepted |
| 2022-09 | A visual guide to garbage collection | Gophercon | Rejected |
| 2022-06 | Scaling Kubernetes with Karpenter | Open Source Summit NA | Rejected |
| 2022-05 | Infrastructure as Software with GitOps | GitOpsCon EU | Rejected |
| 2022-06 | Debugging Kubernetes | Open Source Summit North America | Rejected |
| 2022-05 | 100 clusters and beyond | Kubecon EU | Rejected |
| 2022-03 | Where we're going we don't need Nodes | SCaLE 17x | Rejected |
| 2022-03 | Monitoring Observability | DevOpsDays LA | Rejected |
| 2021-05 | Document driven culture at Amazon | DevOpsDays LA | Rejected |
| 2021-04 | From container to cloud | Cloud Native Kubernetes Manchester | Accepted |
| 2021-04 | The bug before downtime | o11ycon | Rejected |
| 2021-04 | Web scale open source with Kubernetes | All Things Open | Accepted |
| 2021-03 | To us-east-1 and beyond | Crossplane Community Day Europe | Rejected |
| 2021-05 | TikTalk | DevOpsDays PDX | Accepted |
| 2021-03 | Putting the "lie" in reliability | All Day Devops | Rejected |
| 2021-04 | Enterprise grade open source | All Things Open | Rejected |
| 2021-03 | CI/CD: Continuous Infrastructure / Cluster Demand | All Day Devops | Accepted |
| 2021-05 | The Open Source of EKS Anywhere | Kubecon | Rejected |
| 2021-05 | The Mythical Multi-Cluster Month | Kubecon NA | Rejected |
| 2020-11 | Infrastructure for Entertainment | Kubecon NA | Accepted |
| 2020-06 | How Disney+ Prepared for Launch | O'Reilly Infrastructure & Ops | Rejected |
| 2020-03 | How Disney+ Prepared for Launch | SCALE 18x | Withdrawn |
| 2019-09 | Mastering ZSH | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2019-09 | Evolution of infrastructure | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2019-09 | Building apps without code | Strangeloop | Rejected |
| 2019-11 | How-to prepare for launch | Cloud Native Rejekts | Withdrawn |
| 2019-11 | Service Mess: Do You Need A Service Mesh? | Kubecon NA | Rejected |
| 2019-10 | Mastering ZSH | LISA | Accepted |
| 2019-11 | How-to prepare for launch | Kubecon NA | Rejected |