Best talks at Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2017 North America

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These are a subset of the talks that I attended & ones that I enjoyed.
In no particular order:

1. Shipping in Pirate-Infested Waters: Practical Attack and Defense in Kubernetes
   Greg Castle & CJ Cullen, Google
   https://kccncna17.sched.com/event/CU86/shipping-in-pirate-infested-waters-practical-attack-and-defense-in-kubernetes-a-greg-castle-cj-cullen-google

   - The presenters wore hats that matched with the pirate theme.
   - tldr; basic ways to harden your kubernetes cluster. 
   - extra: Google security team (in the Seattle office) is hiring.
            Contact Greg Castle https://www.crunchbase.com/person/greg-castle-4

2. 101 Ways to Crash Your Cluster
   Marius Grigoriu & Emmanuel Gomez, Nordstrom
   https://kccncna17.sched.com/event/CU5x/101-ways-to-crash-your-cluster-i-marius-grigoriu-emmanuel-gomez-nordstrom
   
   - War stories from the Nordstrom ops supporting a production cluster.
   - takeaway: make sure your etcd cluster is highly available with low write latencies. Enable quorum reads.
   
3. Cluster-in-a-Box: Deploying Kubernetes on lxd
   Rye Terrell, Canonical & Marco Ceppi, The Silph Road
   https://kccncna17.sched.com/event/CU6K/cluster-in-a-box-deploying-kubernetes-on-lxd-b-rye-terrell-canonical-marco-ceppi-the-silph-road

   - Explanation of how they deployed k8s on bare metal servers that power https://thesilphroad.com
   - A gem of a talk. 
   
4. Keynote: Kubernetes at GitHub
   Jesse Newland, Principal Site Reliability Engineer, GitHub
   https://kccncna17.sched.com/event/CUFK/keynote-kubernetes-at-github-jesse-newland-principal-site-reliability-engineer-github
   
   - Interesting behind-the-scenes look at Github's kubernetes infrastructure.
   - Github will opensource some of their internal tools in the coming months.
   
5. Keynote: KubeCon Opening Keynote - Project Update
   Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate, Google
   https://kccncna17.sched.com/event/CUE5/keynote-kubecon-opening-keynote-project-update-kelsey-hightower-staff-developer-advocate-google
   
   - Using your voice to automate clusters. High entertainment value.