Navendu Pottekkat
Navendu Pottekkat is a maintainer of Apache APISIX and other open source projects. He helps new contributors to open source by mentoring through the Google Summer of Code and Linux Foundation Mentorship Program. Navendu writes and talks about the cloud native ecosystem and his experience in contributing to, building, scaling, and maintaining open source projects.
Sessions
There is still a lot of confusion about API gateways, Kubernetes gateways, and service meshes. A lot of this is because:
- People often mention these technologies with the same keywords, like canary deployments, rate limiting, and service discovery.
- All these technologies use reverse proxies.
- Some API gateways have their own Kubernetes gateways and service meshes and vice versa.
- There are a lot of articles/videos that compare the three technologies and conclude why one is better than the other.
In this talk, I will try to explain these technologies and share how they fundamentally differ and cater to different use cases.
When thinking about open source contributions, most people think about contributing code. This was true in the early days when open source was a way for people to share the cool thing they built.
Now, as open source becomes the default way to build software, contributions required to create, manage, and sustain projects go beyond code.
From this talk, you will learn how to make impactful contributions to open source that does not involve contributing code.