Shaping the Future of Open-Source Analytics

The Open Source Analytics Conference happened last November 19th to 21st where participants got the chance to explore the most recent information in data ingestion, orchestration, databases, infrastructure, governance, visualization, and AI. Bringing together over 1,900 participants, OSA Con offered a diversity of sessions, interactive features, and global community engagement. 50 speakers pushed the boundaries of what is possible with open source based on their experience, professional development, and personal use cases.

Airflow Summit 2024: A Successful Celebration of a Decade of Innovation

Airflow Summit 2024, which recently took place, was a highly anticipated event celebrating 10 years of Apache Airflow, a key tool in the workflow orchestration space. The summit brought together data engineers, developers, and tech professionals, offering an excellent platform for learning, networking, and reflecting on how Airflow has evolved into a critical data management solution. Reflecting on 10 Years of Airflow Airflow has played a pivotal role in the automation and management of complex data workflows, and the 2024 summit was a perfect opportunity to showcase how it has transformed over the past decade.

Thank you for attending Beam Summit 2024!

Beam Summit 2024: Riding with Apache Beam at the Google Campus Did you know that Apache Beam is an open-source, unified model for defining both batch and streaming processing pipeline? The 7th edition of Beam Summit showcased this idea among several use cases regarding the implementation of Apache Beam in different organizations. This 2 day conference at the Google Campus in Sunnyvale, CA helped to grow an amazing community of professionals around the world.

3 days of full hands-on training on Apache Beam

Beam College 2024 was a success featuring 12 sessions with participants from 57 countries, over 200 organizations, and from a wide range of data and software related roles. Approximately 40% of the attendees were new to data processing and ready to learn new tools as well as key insights on the different levels of Apache Beam. Participants from different types of industries came together to improve their data processing skills and discuss new perspectives with the community.

25 Years of the ASF Universe in Europe

Community Over Code EU 2024 in Bratislava was a success, bringing together Open Source technologists from all over the world to share best practices, use cases and build key relationships in a collaborative and neutral environment while celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation. The conference provided a unique opportunity to explore the latest innovations in ASF projects and the program included a variety of sessions covering topics such as data orchestration, technology finance, cloud computing and microservices integration.

The fifth edition of CCOSS and the first KCD in Mexico

The Open Source Contributors Summit (CCOSS) has been held for 4 consecutive years, this fifth edition was collocated with the first Kubernetes Community Day (KCD) in Mexico and communities not only from Mexico and Latin America, but from other parts of the world, gathered at the CUCEA of the University of Guadalajara, the capital of Guadalajara, to share their knowledge and experiences around Open Source and Cloud Native technologies, but also to enjoy tacos and tequila.

OSA CON 2023: <br> Learnings from Open Source and Data Analytics projects

OSA CON 2023:
Learnings from Open Source and Data Analytics projects

3 days, 43 talks, 53 leaders, practitioners and advocates of over 40 Open Source projects sharing their success, insights, best practices and knowledge with over 2,000 data practitioners from 90+ countries. Here’s a recap of what happened at OSA CON 2023. The Open Source Analytics Conference (OSA CON) covered a spectrum of projects within the modern data stack, it brought together creators, leaders, active contributors, users, and advocates from various Open Source communities.

By Teyza Ponce

Kubecon 2023:
Architecting Futures

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America took place this November in the City of Chicago to close the year 2023 in the best way. The event managed to gather thousands of enthusiasts under an agenda of Kubernetes and Cloud Native and its different edges: Security, Observability, Service Mesh, Storage, Orchestration, Community, Diversity and Inclusion. Precisely, one of the notable keynotes was “United In The Cloud: Where Inclusion ‘Winds’ Around The World” led by Nikhita Raghunath and with the participation of inclusion representatives from different groups such as Divya Mohan from India, the nation that contributes more to Cloud Native Open Source, Akihiro Suda who received the award for Top Committer by the CNCF; Carolina Valencia, representing the Latino community and Destiny O’Connor, Tech Evangelist who works with deaf people.

By Teyza Ponce

Between the Hill and the Harbor: Community Over Code 2023

Between the Hill and the Harbor: Community Over Code 2023 The conference known as “Apache Con” changed its name, but not its essence. The currently called Community Over Code successfully culminated after a long day of sessions dedicated to the enrichment of both Open Source and the communities that nurture it every day. The location that welcomed around 250 contributors, developers and users in this final stretch of the year was Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, a city located in the east of the second largest country in the world, Canada.

Airflow Summit: <br> A worldwide community flowing together in Toronto

By Abdullahi Ayantayo

Airflow Summit:
A worldwide community flowing together in Toronto

The highly anticipated Apache Airflow Summit in Toronto 2023 exceeded all expectations. This Summit marked a significant milestone as the first global in-person gathering of Apache Airflow enthusiasts since its inception by Airbnb in 2014. Spanning three full days, the event featured a robust lineup of approximately a hundred sessions making it a knowledge-packed networking experience. Marc Lamberti highlighted the first day by presenting “What Everybody Ought to Know About Airflow” followed by “Demystifying Apache Airflow: Separating Facts from Fiction” by Uma Ramadoss and Shubham Mehta from Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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