From 3117a31b5aa518e9a31c9d6d788394adcca8b18e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasil Shaikh Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:33:49 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] docs: add Crossplane talk from Cloud Native Kuala Lumpur (Feb 2026) This PR adds the presentation for the talk that I delivered during Cloud Native Kuala Lumpur, Feb 2026 Meetup - https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cloud-native-kuala-lumpur-presents-in-person-cloud-native-kuala-lumpur-meetup-february-2026/ Signed-off-by: Vasil Shaikh --- presentations.yaml | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/presentations.yaml b/presentations.yaml index 59d8437..33ee2b2 100644 --- a/presentations.yaml +++ b/presentations.yaml @@ -382,3 +382,18 @@ tags: - Project Maintainer - Ambassador +- name: Building a Kubernetes-native control plane with Crossplane + description: | + This talk explores how Crossplane can be used to build a Kubernetes-native control plane for platform engineering. It demonstrates how platform teams can define reusable abstractions and offer self-service infrastructure through Kubernetes APIs. + The session includes a live demo showing how to create a Crossplane Composition and use it to provision a PostgreSQL database on AWS from Kubernetes. The focus is on how Compositions enable reusable infrastructure patterns and controlled self-service workflows. + slides: https://github.com/Vasil-Shaikh/Presentations/blob/main/Building%20a%20Kubernetes-native%20control%20plane%20with%20Crossplane%20(with%20Live%20Demo).pdf + date: 2026-02-10 + presenters: + - name: Vasil Shaikh + github: Vasil-Shaikh + event: + name: Cloud Native Kuala Lumpur, Feb 2026 Meetup + url: https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cloud-native-kuala-lumpur-presents-in-person-cloud-native-kuala-lumpur-meetup-february-2026/ + language: EN + projects: + - crossplane From 2212e3bee2e91ecb31c639ab5de4f321f632abc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasil Shaikh Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2026 14:22:55 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] fix: remove broken slide link and clean invalid PDF URL in presentations.yaml CI failed due to two broken slide URLs unrelated to my talk. I removed the invalid Google Slides link and cleaned the Sched PDF URL so the verifier passes. Signed-off-by: Vasil Shaikh --- presentations.yaml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/presentations.yaml b/presentations.yaml index 33ee2b2..5aba53c 100644 --- a/presentations.yaml +++ b/presentations.yaml @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ description: | This presentation aims to explore the evolving surrounding of gRPC services intercommunication in the context of containers and inside service mesh. It will delve in the history and intricacies of securing communication, authentication, authorization and accounting within a modern distributed system architecture. This talk also emphasize the current crucial role of Istio in enhancing the security posture of gRPC services east-west traffic compared with older approaches, that includes default encryption, identity and access management, and secure service-to-service communication on service mesh without the complexity of sidecars usage. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdwRy-SwAZI - slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uXMaTdL12xc1IVAuy66w11D6RQKlj2bo/edit#slide=id.p1 + #slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uXMaTdL12xc1IVAuy66w11D6RQKlj2bo/edit#slide=id.p1 date: 2022-10-04 presenters: - name: Amim Knabben @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ description: | Users don’t care where items run, just IF they run and how long they need to wait for completion. We should be building systems where ONLY the hardware, network, storage, and security engineers worry about how to maximally leverage underlying hardware for performance. Increasingly popular AI/ML and traditional HPC workloads have many similarities. It is historically difficult for the users to deploy their workloads in HPC environments. Kubernetes, meanwhile, has focused on simplifying the cognitive load for the users at a cost to both performance and sustainability. We show how to lift paradigms from HPC to make more performant Kubernetes clusters. We give a history of where HPC has come up short in abstracting hardware away from the user. We highlight current Kubernetes projects that do aid in performance in a cloud-native fashion and will go over continuing gaps. We will show how to improve Kubernetes to optimize both performance and sustainability without added pain to the user. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iH1HK20obs - slides: https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/kubernetesbatchdayna22/68/PropogatingProgammingParadigmsMarlowWestonIntel.pdf?_gl=1*1ikx4yr*_ga*MjEyMzcyMjQ3OS4xNjk2Nzg3NDM5*_ga_XH5XM35VHB*MTY5Njc4NzQzOS4xLjAuMTY5Njc4NzQzOS42MC4wLjA. + slides: https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/kubernetesbatchdayna22/68/PropogatingProgammingParadigmsMarlowWestonIntel.pdf date: 2023-10-24 presenters: - name: Marlow Weston From 4d6cb8f8192a72108016ba073c1555f5154a302f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasil Shaikh Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:42:53 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] fix: Added the correct slide link for grpc talk Signed-off-by: Vasil Shaikh --- presentations.yaml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/presentations.yaml b/presentations.yaml index 5aba53c..51bca5d 100644 --- a/presentations.yaml +++ b/presentations.yaml @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ description: | This presentation aims to explore the evolving surrounding of gRPC services intercommunication in the context of containers and inside service mesh. It will delve in the history and intricacies of securing communication, authentication, authorization and accounting within a modern distributed system architecture. This talk also emphasize the current crucial role of Istio in enhancing the security posture of gRPC services east-west traffic compared with older approaches, that includes default encryption, identity and access management, and secure service-to-service communication on service mesh without the complexity of sidecars usage. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdwRy-SwAZI - #slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uXMaTdL12xc1IVAuy66w11D6RQKlj2bo/edit#slide=id.p1 + slides: https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/istiocon2023/e0/%5Bistiocon%5Dgrpc-securit-istio.pptx date: 2022-10-04 presenters: - name: Amim Knabben