Reviewing KubeConEU 2023

KubeConEU 2023 in Amsterdam had over 10,000 attendees. What were the highlights and new trends happening in the CNCF ecosystem? 

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10,000 ATTENDEES, 58% OF THEM ARE NEW TO CNCF

• Thank you to the CNCF for the Media pass to the event.
• 10,000 people in attendance. Lots of energy. 
• Showers in Europe - why?  

THERE’S SOMETHING FOR (MOSTLY EVERYBODY). EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT ON THE SHOW.

• Kubernetes is mainstream for this audience. Now they are dealing with next-gen challenges beyond Kubernetes.
• Lots of Observability usage (and vendors)
• Lots of cloud cost-management (vendors), and talk that cloud providers would start pushing that message in 2023.
• Service mesh drew a lot of interest. Between Ambient Mesh, Ciliium Mesh and Linkerd
• Large European customers seem to be slightly behind the rest of the world in terms of adoption, but they were eager to engage at this point in time. 
• Data sovereignty (local countries) is a big concern in Europe, so it was interesting to hear how companies are dealing with those regulations.
• This is a strange show to get a sense from developers. WASM seems to be going through its Java phases. 

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