My Experience at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 Delhi, India
Intro
Hello Everyone,
This is my first blog where I will be telling you about my experience at the event which I attended after traveling from Gujarat to Delhi.
Everyone, I was in Delhi attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. I have met around 100 people and learned a lot. Everyone, who has achieved success(according to me) has different roadmaps.
What did I do?
\=> How do I reach out to them, and pitch them?
Hello/Hi, I am Devarsh, I am a Cloud and DevOps Enthusiast, and I am a recent graduate…and a little bit about myself.
I met people from different firms, CTOs, CEOs, and all.
On the day - 01, the knowledge and the confidence of the people overwhelmed me a bit.
But, when I met Akshay Sir he taught me how to bring confidence in your voice by just manipulating your posture. Keep your knees strong.
\=> How did I pitch myself?
Tell about yourself (your enthusiasm must be in your eyes, not only in your script/pitch).
Tell, about your achievements.
Tell, what your goal is. (What do you want to become?)
Whom do you admire? (optional) It will help the person you’re talking to.
Additionally, I am looking for opportunities. OR Are you guys hiring?
And I am looking for this role & responsibilities.
Cover all 6 points in around 30 - 40 seconds.
Before this,
Suppose, you want to know about them and take inspiration from their all-day routine. Ask following,
- How does your day look like?
If you admire him or her the most, ask,
- What would be your steps if you were in my shoes?
Like,
I asked Bill Mulligan, after the cilium session (this one - I will attach the link to the YT video here) & he told me, that, if I was I haven’t jumped directly to learn & understand eBPF.
Insights I took from that 2 minute conversation,
join yourself in a community → make contributions → become a maintainer (like he is now) →, and yeah. It’s not that straightforward everyone. But it’s achievable.
The following parameters do matter for sure.
- What’s your niche? → Do you want to contribute to Golang, bash, and Python or Do you want to contribute to creating architectures? → OR do you want to contribute to docs?
- Everyone, the community needs contributors, and seniors are ready to mentor too. Sometimes, we leave the enthusiasm and get demotivated and leave open source contributions.
So is it?
Let me take you on the second day when I met Atulpriya Sharma.
He told me to get involved in the projects which are in their initial state and just starting. Not the mature ones.
So that, you can learn a lot and there will be some work. Join their weekly or Bi-weekly meetings & yeah get involved.
Here, I was able to see the path to reach my goal. I hope you all are able to see maybe.
Yeah, that’s all about the learning part. Now, below I am writing my personal insights which I experienced.
Insights
Being a recent graduate managing this might be a little bit hectic. But, it feels exciting, wild & “Yeh dil maange more”(My heart asks for more).
However, on the day - 02, I got more learning, confidence, and a few cool swags too :)
These 2 days felt very little to me to meet so many enthusiasts.
Different thoughts but one common thing
- Everyone, I met so many people, and among them, I met few people who felt like how they become successful?
- Few aren’t kind enough, and few lack confidence. Then how means, how?
- The answer is everyone, which I got to know after meeting Prerit Munjal on SOSS Community Day.
- The hunger to learn that tool or technology. Only, hunger will give you success, which I remembered that Shubham Sir said too in his one of the YT videos. Answer → The Hunger.
- That was the one purpose, the other purpose can be → ADDING VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY or GIVING THE COMMUNITY BACK.
- Means with hunger you are learning new tools and tech and with the above point you’re adding value too.
What preparations I must have made?
Booking a hotel at end time, before a week or so. I got the Dan Kohn scholarship message a few months before the event. But still, I sat late to book the tickets. I must have booked earlier.
I must have prepared my latest resume with my all achievements and certifications.
I must have created a proper list of questions to ask Abhishek Sir Veeramalla, and Prerit Bhaiya.
I covered all the questions though which I wanted to ask.
But preparing saves time and we’ll not go off topic.
Also, be ready with the sessions you want to attend before the day starts. I learned these from Abhishek Sir’s YT video. This one (I have provided the link with a timestamp which will save you time)
Perspective
Right now, as a student, we have the perspective of,
Watch a tutorial video, clone it, add it to the resume, and get the job. Which enhances our resume too & we got familiar with the tools also.
But the perspective of the people, I met was,
What is the optimistic solution?
What architecture can we follow to save cost?
This means we must master the skill or tools. So that, we can help the community to save costs and use resources efficiently.
Does anyone care about you?
Yes, if and only if you want to take a deep dive and learn things.
No, if you want shortcuts to achieve your goal.
TL;DR
Be enthusiastic
Pick up the CNCF sandbox project which is not mature yet and in its initial phase.
Pick up the project which excites & interests you the most & enter the cycle.
Bas, go now. Contribute.
Outro
Congratulations Everyone, you’ve just traveled to Delhi and learned a lot. Yeah, you didn’t get the swags though right?
Here you go.
So sorry, for the joke. But my main purpose in writing this Blog was to motivate you to attend all the events (whether it is a local event happening at your place or another event for which you’re paying) with full enthusiasm and a learning attitude.
Everyone is on your side not your rival or competitor here. That’s the part that keeps me attached to this community. Everyone wants to see me grow.