(digital music) >> Welcome back to "theCUBE's" live coverage of AWS re:Invent 2022. Lisa Martin here in Las Vegas with Dave Vellante. Dave, we've been here.. This is our third day, we started Monday night. We've done well over 70 interviews so far. I've lost count. >> Yeah, I don't count anymore. (Lisa laughing) >> Just go with the flow. >> We've been talking all things Cloud with AWS it's ecosystem of partners and customers. We're excited to welcome a couple of folks from Pluralsight to the program. Talking about the state of Cloud. Faye Ellis joins us, Principle Training Architect at A Cloud Guru, Pluralsight. Mattias Andersson is also here, Principle Developer Advocate at Pluralsight. Guys welcome to the queue. >> Thank you >> Thank you so much for having us. >> Great to have you. >> Mattias: Glad to be here. >> Just in case our audience isn't familiar with A Cloud Guru and Pluralsight, why don't you give us just that high level elevator pitch? >> Yeah, well we basically help organizations transform their people so that they can deliver Cloud transformations within their own organizations. So it's all about upskilling and getting people Cloud fluent and ready to rock Cloud in their own organizations. >> Love that, Cloud fluent. But what are you hearing from the developer community? Your a developer advocate. We've seen so much pivot towards the developers really influencing business decisions, business direction. What's the voice of the developer like these days? >> Well, I think that a lot of developers are recognizing that the Cloud does offer a lot of value for the things that they're wanting to get done. Developers generally want to do things, they want to build things, they want stuff that they can look at and say, "Hey I made that and it's really good and it solves problems." And so I'm hearing a lot of people talking about how they value things like serverless, to be able to build those sorts of systems without a whole lot of other people necessarily needing to support them. They can get so much built on their own even. And then as teams, they can accomplish a lot of, again, the same sorts of projects. They can build those forward much more efficiently as a smaller team than they could have in the past without that technology. So I'm hearing a lot about that. Especially because I'm working with Cloud so much is what I mean, right? >> So it's kind of putting the power back into their hands as developers. Instead of having to wait for the infrastructure people or the support people to create a server so that they can deploy applications, there's a lot more tools to allow them to actually do that for themselves, isn't there? >> Absolutely, absolutely. It opens up so many doors. >> So pre-Ukraine, we were writing about the skills shortage. I call it the slingshot economy. All right. Oh wow it's like this talent war. And then all of a sudden, Twitter layoffs and there's this talent on the street. Now it might not be a perfect match, but what are you seeing in terms of new talent coming on that you can train and coach. How are you seeing the match and the alignment with what the demand for talent? Now I know your philosophy is you should be producers of talent, not consumers of talent. I get that. >> Faye: Yeah. >> But to produce talent you've got to coach, train, assist people. So what are you seeing today? What's the state of that sort of market? >> That's a really good question. I mean our State of Cloud report, it says that 75% of tech leaders are building all their new products and features in the Cloud. But what was the other stat, Mattias? >> Only 8% of the actual individuals that are working with the technology say that they have extensive skills with the Cloud. So that's a huge gap between the people who are wanting to build that forward as the leadership of the organization and the people that they have available, whether it's internal to their organization or external. So they do have a lot of people who are working in technology already in their organizations in general. But they do need to invest in that. Those technologists are learning things all the time. But are they maybe not learning the right things? Are they not learning them effectively? Are they not moving the organization forward? >> Dave: So go ahead, please. >> Yeah, so we think it's all about like nurturing the talent that you have already in your own organization. And those are the people who really know your business. And you know, it takes time to kind of upskill and really, really develop those Cloud skills and develop that experience. But it's not always the right thing to take on new teams. Like bring in new people and then you've got to get them up to speed with your own business. And actually isn't it much more wonderful to be able to nurture the talent within your own organization and and create that long-term relationship with your own employees. >> So where do you start? Like to get to work for Amazon you got to prove that you're reasonably professional. I mean everybody, the whole company has to like spin up an EC2 instance and do something with it. Is that where you start? Is it sort of education and what's available? What's the Cloud? Or is it more advanced than that? You're looking for maybe people with a technical mind that you're.. or do you have.. obviously have different levels, but take us through sort of the anatomy of experience. >> When you say, "Where do you start?" Who are you meaning? Are you meaning an organization, an individual, a team? >> You guys, when you bring on.. begin to expose an individual to the Cloud, >> Mattias: Right. >> Their objective is to become proficient at something. >> Right. >> Right. And so is it something that you have 100, 101, 201, basically? >> Well, you know what, if you want to learn how to swim you got to jump in the water. That's what I always think. And we focus on practical skills, the ability to do something, to get something done. Get something configured within the Cloud. A lot of the time our customers are asking us for skills that kind of go beyond certification. And for a really long time we were.. A Cloud Guru has been famous for getting engineers certified. But that's just one piece of the puzzle, isn't it? Certification is wonderful, but it's that chicken and egg scenario that I think that you were alluding to which is that you need experience to get the experience. So how are you going to get that experience? And we've got loads of different ideas to help people to actually do that. On our platform we've got lots of practical exercises that you can do. Building out serverless websites, configuring a web application firewall, building a VPC. We've got troubleshooting labs, we've got challenge labs, that kind of thing. And we've also got some free resources, haven't we as well, Mattias. >> Yes. >> Things like our Cloud Portfolio Challenges, which are like little projects that you can complete all by yourself. Creating serverless websites, playing around with SageMaker. You get some requirements and you have to design and actually build that. But it's all about getting that hands-on practice and that's kind of what we focus on. And we start off with easy things, and then we kind of layer it up and layer it up. And we kind of build on the easy foundations until, before you know it, you're Cloud fluent. >> Yeah, I think that there is a lot of value.. You were mentioning to, just to circle back on certifications, that is a really valuable way for a lot of people to start to take a look at the certifications that AWS offers, for example, and say, "How can I use those to guide my learning?" Because I know that sometimes people look at certifications as like a replacement for some sort of an assessment or whatever. And it's not really that most of the time. Most of the time the key value is that it guides people to learn a scope of material that is really valuable to them. And in particular it uncovers blind spots for them. So to answer your question of "Where do you start as an individual?".. People often ask me, "Okay, so I know all these things, which certifications should I get?" And I say, the Cloud Practitioner is the place to start. And they're like, "Oh, but maybe that's too easy." And I say, maybe it is, but then it's going to be really quick for you. If it's not really quick for you, then it was really valuable. You learned those key things. And if it was really quick but you didn't spend a lot of time on it and now you're just that much further along on the next certification that sort of guides you to the next larger scope. So it's a really valuable system that I often guide people to. To say that you can jump into that, anyone actually can jump into the Cloud Practitioner and learn that. And we often recommend that across an entire organization, you could potentially have everyone that gets that Cloud Practitioner. Whether you're finance or sales or leadership executive, the individual teams in technology departments of course. But everyone can get that Cloud fluency and then they can communicate far more effectively with each other. So it's not just the technologists that are needing to do that. >> Absolutely. And I think also it's about leading by example. If you're in leadership and you are asking your engineers to upskill themselves so that you can deliver your transformation goals, well actually, it's leadership responsibility to lead by example as well. And I heard a wonderful story from a customer. Just yesterday, a female CFO in her seventies just got her Cloud Practitioner certification. >> Lisa: Right on. >> I mean, that's wonderful. As I said before, a career in Cloud is a commitment to learning. It's lifelong learning. So yeah, that's wonderful. And long may it continue. I'd love to be in my seventies still learning new things and still rocking it. Maybe not the CFO, maybe something different. But yeah, that would be wonderful. >> How do you define Cloud fluency? There's so many opportunities that you both talked about and you walked through really kind of the step-by-step process. But how would someone define themselves as Cloud fluent? And how.. it's almost like what you were talking about, Mattias, is sort of the democratization of Cloud fluency across an organization, but what does it actually look like? >> Wow, good question. For me, I think it means everybody speaking the same language and having a common understanding. And I think that does kind of hark back to what you were saying before, Mattias, about the foundational certifications. The Cloud Practitioner type certification. What do you think? >> Yeah, I think a part of it is a mindset shift that people need to understand a different way of thinking about technology. That Cloud isn't just another tool just like all the others. It's a different way, a higher level of abstraction in technology that makes us more effective and efficient because of that. But because of that, also, we need to think about it in not the same way as we were before. So if you take it to the language analogy, instead of memorizing a few phrases like "Where is the bathroom?" or "How much does that cost?" or whatever, you have an understanding of the flow of the language. You understand that okay, there are verbs and nouns and I can put them together in this way. Oh, adjectives, those are kind of interesting. I can add those to things. And you have this model, mental model for how you can interact with the technology just like you would interact with the language or whatever other things. So the mental model actually, I think, is really the key thing that I keep coming back to a lot when people are learning that the mental model that you have for something is really what.. this sort of helps you understand the mastery of that. It's whether your mental model is mature and it's not changing a lot as you're learning new information, that's a really valuable milestone for someone to get to. Because as you're learning new things.. otherwise you would make assumptions, and then you learn new things that challenge those assumptions and you have to change the mental model to move forward. So the fluency is when that mental model, you have the understanding and you can then communicate. >> Yep. Love that. Last question for you guys is, we have about a minute left. If you had a billboard that you could put anywhere about A Cloud Guru at Pluralsight and what you're enabling with respect to Cloud fluency. I want you to each kind of take about 30 seconds to.. from your perspective, what would it say? >> Oh my goodness. I think it would say something like, Cloud is for everybody. It's no longer this elitist, difficult to understand, abstract thing. And I think it's something that is inclusive to everybody and that we should all be embracing it. And if you don't do it, you are going to be left behind because your competitors are going to be getting the advantages from Cloud. You're going to miss that competitive advantage and you're going to lose out. So yeah, that's probably quite a lot to put on a billboard. >> I love it. And Mattias, what would your billboard say? >> Ah, let me think. Okay. I might say something like, "The future of technology is accessible and important if you're in a technology career." I don't know, now it's getting more wordy. That's not quite right. But the point is that the Cloud really is the future of technology. It's not just some other little tool that's a fad or whatever. It's a different way of approaching technology. I'm realizing you're asking about the billboard as a short thing. The Cloud is the future. You can do it. You should do it. (everyone laughing) >> Drop the mic. Nailed it! Faye, Mattias, thank you so much joining us.. >> Thank you so much, we really appreciate it. >> Lisa: This was a great session. >> Thank you. >> Lisa: Great to have A Cloud Guru by Pluralsight on the program. We appreciate you stopping by. >> Oh, thank you so much. >> Thank you both so very much. >> We appreciate it. >> Lisa: Our pleasure. >> Thank you. For our guests and for Dave Vellante, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching "theCUBE", the leader in live enterprise and emerging tech coverage. (digital music)

(bright upbeat music) >> Greetings, brilliant community and thank you so much for tuning in to theCUBE here for the last three days where we've been live from Detroit, Michigan. I've had the pleasure of spending this week with Lisa Martin and John Furrier. Thank you both so much for hanging out, for inviting me into the CUBE family. It's our first show together, it's been wonderful. >> Thank you. >> You nailed it. >> Oh thanks, sweetheart. >> Great job. Great job team, well done. Free wall to wall coverage, it's what we do. We stay till everyone else-- >> Savannah: 100 percent. >> Everyone else leaves, till they pull the plug. >> Lisa: Till they turn the lights out. We're still there. >> Literally. >> Literally last night. >> Still broadcasting. >> Whatever takes to get the stories and get 'em out there at scale. >> Yeah. >> Great time. >> 33. 33 different segments too. Very impressive. John, I'm curious, you're a trend watcher and you've been at every single KubeCon. >> Yep. >> What are the trends this year? Give us the breakdown. >> I think CNCF does this, it's a hard job to balance all the stakeholders. So one, congratulations to the CNCF for another great KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. It is really hard to balance bringing in the experts who, as time goes by, seven years we've been all of, as you said, you get experts, you get seniority, and people who can be mentors, 60% new people. You have vendors who are sponsoring and there's always people complaining and bitching and moaning. They want this, they want that. It's always hard and they always do a good job of balancing it. We're lucky that we get to scale the stories with CUBE and that's been great. We had some great stories here, but it's a great community and again, they're inclusive. As I've said before, we've talked about it. This year though is an inflection point in my opinion, because you're seeing the developer ecosystem growing so fast. It's global. You're seeing events pop up, you're seeing derivative events. CNCF is at the center point and they have to maintain the culture of developer experts, maintainers, while balancing the newbies. And that's going to be >> Savannah: Mm-hmm. really hard. And they've done a great job. We had a great conversation with them. So great job. And I think it's going to continue. I think the attendance metric is a little bit of a false positive. There's a lot of online people who didn't come to Detroit this year. And I think maybe the combination of the venue, the city, or just Covid preferences may not look good on paper, on the numbers 'cause it's not a major step up in attendance. It's still bigger, but the community, I think, is going to continue to grow. I'm bullish on it. >> Yeah, I mean at least we did see double the number of people that we had in Los Angeles. Very curious. I think Amsterdam, where we'll be next with CNCF in the spring, in April. I think that's actually going to be a better pulse check. We'll be in Europe, we'll see what's going on. >> John: Totally. >> I mean, who doesn't like Amsterdam in the springtime? Lisa, what have been some of your observations? >> Oh, so many observations. The evolution of the conference, the hallway track conversations really shifting towards adjusting to the enterprise. The enterprise momentum that we saw here as well. We had on the show, Ford. >> Savannah: Yes. We had MassMutual, we had ING, that was today. Home Depot is here. We are seeing all these big companies that we know and love, become software companies right before our eyes. >> Yeah. Well, and I think we forget that software powers our entire world. And so of course they're going to have to be here. So much running on Kubernetes. It's on-prem, it's at the edge, it's everywhere. It's exciting. Woo, I'm excited. John, what do you think is the number one story? This is your question. I love asking you this question. What is the number one story out KubeCon? >> Well, I think the top story is a combination of two things. One is the evolution of Cloud Native. We're starting to see web assembly. That's a big hyped up area. It got a lot of attention. >> Savannah: Yeah. That's kind of teething out the future. >> Savannah: Rightfully so. The future of this kind of lightweight. You got the heavy duty VMs, you got Kubernetes and containers, and now this web assembly, shows a trajectory of apps, server-like environment. And then the big story is security. Software supply chain is, to me, was the number one consistent theme. At almost all the interviews, in the containers, and the workflows, >> Savannah: Very hot. software supply chain is real. The CD Foundation mentioned >> Savannah: Mm-hmm. >> they had 16,000 vulnerabilities identified in their code base. They were going to automate that. So again, >> Savannah: That was wild. >> That's the top story. The growth of open source exposes potential vulnerabilities with security. So software supply chain gets my vote. >> Did you hear anything that surprised you? You guys did this great preview of what you thought we were going to hear and see and feel and touch at KubeCon, CloudNativeCon 2022. You talked about, for example, the, you know, healthcare financial services being early adopters of this. Anything surprise either one of you in terms of what you predicted versus what we saw? Savannah, let's start with you. >> You know what really surprised me, and this is ironic, so I'm a community gal by trade. But I was really just impressed by the energy that everyone brought here and the desire to help. The thing about the open source community that always strikes me is, I mean 187 different countries participating. You've got, I believe it's something like 175,000 people contributing to the 140 projects plus that CNCF is working on. But that culture of collaboration extends far beyond just the CNCF projects. Everyone here is keen to help each other. We had the conversation just before about the teaching and the learnings that are going on here. They brought in Detroit's students to come and learn, which is just the most heartwarming story out of this entire thing. And I think it's just the authenticity of everyone in this community and their passion. Even though I know it's here, it still surprises me to see it in the flesh. Especially in a place like Detroit. >> It's nice. >> Yeah. >> It's so nice to see it. And you bring up a good point. It's very authentic. >> Savannah: It's super authentic. >> I mean, what surprised me is one, the Wasm, or web assembly. I didn't see that coming at the scale of the conversation. It sucked a lot of options out of the room in my opinion, still hyped up. But this looks like it's got a good trajectory. I like that. The other thing that surprised me that was a learning was my interview with Solo.io, Idit, and Brian Gracely, because he's a CUBE alumni and former host of theCUBE, and analyst at Wikibon, was how their go-to-market was an example of a modern company in Covid with a clean sheet of paper and smart people, they're just doing things different. They're in Slack with their customers. And I walked away with, "Wow that's like a playbook that's not, was never, in the go-to-market VC-backed company playbook." I thought that was, for me, a personal walk away saying that's important. I like how they did that. And there's a lot of companies I think could learn from that. Especially as the recession comes where partnering with customers has always been a top priority. And how they did that was very clever, very effective, very efficient. So I walked away with that saying, "I think that's going to be a standard." So that was a pleasant surprise. >> That was a great surprise. Also, that's a female-founded company, which is obviously not super common. And the growth that they've experienced, to your point, really being catalyzed by Covid, is incredibly impressive. I mean they have some massive brand name customers, Amex, BMW for example. >> Savannah: Yeah. >> Great point. >> And I interviewed her years ago and I remember saying to myself, "Wow, she's impressive." I liked her. She's a player. A player for sure. And she's got confidence. Even on the interview she said, "We're just better, we have better product." And I just like the point of view. Very customer-focused but confident. And I just took, that's again, a great company. And again, I'm not surprised that Brian Gracely left Red Hat to go work there. So yeah, great, great call there. And of course other things that weren't surprising that I predicted, Red Hat continued to invest. They continue to bring people on theCUBE, they support theCUBE but more importantly they have a good strategy. They're in that multicloud positioning. They're going to have an opportunity to get a bite at the apple. And I what I call the supercloud. As enterprises try to go and be mainstream, Cloud Native, they're going to need some help. And Red Hat is always has the large enterprise customers. >> Savannah: What surprised you, Lisa? >> Oh my gosh, so many things. I think some of the memorable conversations that we had. I love talking with some of the enterprises that we mentioned, ING Bank for example. You know, or institutions that have been around for 100 plus years. >> Savannah: Oh, yeah. To see not only how much they've innovated and stayed relevant to meet the demands of the consumer, which are only increasing, but they're doing so while fostering a culture of innovation and a culture that allows these technology leaders to really grow within the organization. That was a really refreshing conversation that I think we had. 'Cause you can kind of >> Savannah: Absolutely. think about these old stodgy companies. Nah, of course they're going to digitize. >> Thinking about working for the bank, I think it's boring. >> Right? >> Yeah. And they were talking about, in fact, those great t-shirts that they had on, >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. were all about getting more people to understand how fun it is to work in tech for ING Bank in different industries. You don't just have to work for the big tech companies to be doing really cool stuff in technology. >> What I really liked about this show is we had two female hosts. >> Savannah: Yeah. >> How about that? Come on. >> Hey, well done, well done on your recruitment there, champ. >> Yes, thank you boss. (John laughs) >> And not to mention we have a really all-star production team. I do just want to give them a little shout out. To all the wonderful folks behind the lines here. (people clapping) >> John: Brendan. Good job. >> Yeah. Without Brendan, Anderson, Noah, and Andrew, we would be-- >> Of course Frank Faye holding it back there too. >> Yeah, >> Of course, Frank. >> I mean, without the business development wheels on the ship we'd really be in an unfortunate spot. I almost just swore on television. We're not going to do that. >> It's okay. No one's regulating. >> Yeah. (all laugh) >> Elon Musk just took over Twitter. >> It was a close call. >> That's right! >> It's going to be a hellscape. >> Yeah, I mean it's, shit's on fire. So we'll just see what happens next. I do, I really want to talk about this because I think it's really special. It's an ethos and some magic has happened here. Let's talk about Detroit. Let's talk about what it means to be here. We saw so many, and I can't stress this enough, but I think it really matters. There was a commitment to celebrating place here. Lisa, did you notice this too? >> Absolutely. And it surprised me because we just don't see that at conferences. >> Yeah. We're so used to going to the same places. >> Right. >> Vegas. Vegas, Vegas. More Vegas. >> Your tone-- >> San Francisco >> (both laugh) sums up my feelings. Yes. >> Right? >> Yeah. And, well, it's almost robotic but, and the fact that we're like, oh Detroit, really? But there was so much love for this city and recognizing and supporting its residents that we just don't see at conferences. You uncovered a lot of that with your swag-savvy segments, >> Savannah: Yeah. >> And you got more of that to talk about today. >> Don't worry, it's coming. Yeah. (laughs) >> What about you? Have you enjoyed Detroit? I know you hadn't been here in a long time, when we did our intro session. >> I think it's a bold move for the CNCF to come here and celebrate. What they did, from teaching the kids in the city some tech, they had a session. I thought that was good. >> Savannah: Loved that. I think it was a risky move because a lot of people, like, weren't sure if they were going to fly to Detroit. So some say it might impact the attendance. I thought they did a good job. Their theme, Road Ahead. Nice tie in. >> Savannah: Yeah. And so I think I enjoyed Detroit. The weather was great. It didn't rain. Nice breeze outside. >> Yeah. >> The weather was great, the restaurants are phenomenal. So Detroit's a good city. I missed some hockey games. I'd love to see the Red Wings play. Missed that game. But we always come back. >> I think it's really special. I mean, every time I talked to a company about their swag, that had sourced it locally, there was a real reason for this story. I mean even with Kasten in that last segment when I noticed that they had done Carhartt beanies, Carhartt being a Michigan company. They said, "I'm so glad you noticed. That's why we did it." And I think that type of, the community commitment to place, it all comes back to community. One of the bigger themes of the show. But that passion and that support, we need more of that. >> Lisa: Yeah. >> And the thing about the guests we've had this past three days have been phenomenal. We had a diverse set of companies, individuals come on theCUBE, you know, from Scott Johnston at Docker. A really one on one. We had a great intense conversation. >> Savannah: Great way to kick it off. >> We shared a lot of inside baseball, about Docker, super important company. You know, impressed with companies like Platform9 it's been around since the OpenStack days who are now in a relevant position. Rafi Systems, hot startup, they don't have a lot of resources, a lot of guerilla marketing going on. So I love to see the mix of startups really contributing. The big players are here. So it's a real great mix of companies. And I thought the interviews were phenomenal, like you said, Ford. We had, Kubia launched on theCUBE. >> Savannah: Yes. >> That's-- >> We snooped the location for KubeCon North America. >> You did? >> Chicago, everyone. In case you missed it, Bianca was nice enough to share that with us. >> We had Sarbjeet Johal, CUBE analyst came on, Keith Townsend, yesterday with you guys. >> We had like analyst speed dating last night. (all laugh) >> How'd that go? (laughs) >> It was actually great. One of the things that they-- >> Did they hug and kiss at the end? >> Here's the funny thing is that they were debating the size of the CNC app. One thinks it's too big, one thinks it's too small. And I thought, is John Goldilocks? (John laughs) >> Savannah: Yeah. >> What is John going to think about that? >> Well I loved that segment. I thought, 'cause Keith and Sarbjeet argue with each other on Twitter all the time. And I heard Keith say before, he went, "Yeah let's have it out on theCUBE." So that was fun to watch. >> Thank you for creating this forum for us to have that kind of discourse. >> Lisa: Yes, thank you. >> Well, it wouldn't be possible without the sponsors. Want to thank the CNCF. >> Absolutely. >> And all the ecosystem partners and sponsors that make theCUBE possible. We love doing this. We love getting the stories. No story's too small for theCUBE. We'll go with it. Do whatever it takes. And if it wasn't for the sponsors, the community wouldn't get all the great knowledge. So, and thank you guys. >> Hey. Yeah, we're, we're happy to be here. Speaking of sponsors and vendors, should we talk a little swag? >> Yeah. >> What do you guys think? All right. Okay. So now this is becoming a tradition on theCUBE so I'm very delighted, the savvy swag segment. I do think it's interesting though. I mean, it's not, this isn't just me shouting out folks and showing off t-shirts and socks. It's about standing out from the noise. There's a lot of players in this space. We got a lot of CNCF projects and one of the ways to catch the attention of people walking the show floor is to have interesting swag. So we looked for the most unique swag on Wednesday and I hadn't found this yet, but I do just want to bring it up. Oops, I think I might have just dropped it. This is cute. Is, most random swag of the entire show goes to this toothbrush. I don't really have more in terms of the pitch there because this is just random. (Lisa laughs) >> But so, everyone needs that. >> John: So what's their tagline? >> And you forget these. >> Yeah, so the idea was to brush your cloud bills. So I think they're reducing the cost of-- >> Kind of a hygiene angle. >> Yeah, yeah. Very much a hygiene angle, which I found a little ironic in this crowd to be completely honest with you. >> John: Don't leave the lights on theCUBE. That's what they say. >> Yeah. >> I mean we are theCUBE so it would be unjust of me not to show you a Rubik's cube. This is actually one of those speed cubes. I'm not going to be able to solve this for you with one hand on camera, but apparently someone did it in 17 seconds at the booth. Knowing this audience, not surprising to me at all. Today we are, and yesterday, was the t-shirt contest. Best t-shirt contest. Today we really dove into the socks. So this is, I noticed this trend at KubeCon in Los Angeles last year. Lots of different socks, clouds obviously a theme for the cloud. I'm just going to lay these out. Lots of gamers in the house. Not surprising. Here on this one. >> John: Level up. >> Got to level up. I love these 'cause they say, "It's not a bug." And anyone who's coded has obviously had to deal with that. We've got, so Star Wars is a huge theme here. There's Lego sets. >> John: I think it's Star Trek. But. >> That's Star Trek? >> John: That's okay. >> Could be both. (Lisa laughs) >> John: Nevermind, I don't want to. >> You can flex your nerd and geek with us anytime you want, John. I don't mind getting corrected. I'm all about, I'm all about the truth. >> Star Trek. Star Wars. Okay, we're all the same. Okay, go ahead. >> Yeah, no, no, this is great. Slim.ai was nice enough to host us for dinner on Tuesday night. These are their lovely cloud socks. You can see Cloud Native, obviously Cloud Native Foundation, cloud socks, whole theme here. But if we're going to narrow it down to some champions, I love these little bee elephants from Raft. And when I went up to these guys, I actually probably would've called these my personal winner. They said, again, so community focused and humble here at CNCF, they said that Wiz was actually the champion according to the community. These unicorn socks are pretty excellent. And I have to say the branding is flawless. So we'll go ahead and give Wiz the win on the best sock contest. >> John: For the win. >> Yeah, Wiz for the win. However, the thing that I am probably going to use the most is this really dope Detroit snapback from Kasten. So I'm going to be rocking this from now on for the rest of the segment as well. And I feel great about this snapback. >> Looks great. Looks good on you. >> Yeah. >> Thanks John. (John laughs) >> So what are we expecting between now and KubeCon in Amsterdam? >> Well, I think it's going to be great to see how they, the European side, it's a chill show. It's great. Brings in the European audience from the global perspective. I always love the EU shows because one, it's a great destination. Amsterdam's going to be a great location. >> Savannah: I'm pumped. >> The American crowd loves going over there. All the event cities that they choose are always awesome. I missed Valencia cause I got Covid. I'm really bummed about that. But I love the European shows. It's just a little bit, it's high intensity, but it's the European chill. They got a little bit more of that siesta vibe going on. >> Yeah. >> And it's just awesome. >> Yeah, >> And I think that the mojo that carried throughout this week, it's really challenging to not only have a show that's five days, >> but to go through all week, >> Savannah: Seriously. >> to a Friday at 4:00 PM Eastern Time, and still have the people here, the energy and all the collaboration. >> Savannah: Yeah. >> The conversations that are still happening. I think we're going to see a lot more innovation come spring 2023. >> Savannah: Mm-hmm. >> Yeah. >> So should we do a bet, somebody's got to buy dinner? Who, well, I guess the folks who lose this will buy dinner for the other one. How many attendees do you think we'll see in Amsterdam? So we had 4,000, >> Oh, I'm going to lose this one. >> roughly in Los Angeles. Priyanka was nice enough to share with us, there was 8,000 here in Detroit. And I'm talking in person, we're not going to meddle this with the online. >> 6500. >> Lisa: I was going to say six, six K. >> I'm going 12,000. >> Ooh! >> I'm going to go ahead and go big I'm going to go opposite Price Is Right. >> One dollar. >> Yeah. (all laugh) That's exactly where I was driving with it. I'm going, I'm going absolutely all in. I think the momentum here is building. I think if we look at the numbers from-- >> John: You could go Family Feud >> Yeah, yeah, exactly. And they mentioned that they had 11,000 people who have taken their Kubernetes course in that first year. If that's a benchmark and an indicator, we've got the veteran players here. But I do think that, I personally think that the hype of Kubernetes has actually preceded adoption. If you look at the data and now we're finally tipping over. I think the last two years we were on the fringe and right now we're there. It's great. (voice blares loudly on loudspeaker) >> Well, on that note (all laugh) On that note, actually, on that note, as we are talking, so I got to give cred to my cohosts. We deal with a lot of background noise here on theCUBE. It is a live show floor. There's literally someone on an e-scooter behind me. There's been Pong going on in the background. The sound will haunt the three of us for the rest of our lives, as well as the production crew. (Lisa laughs) And, and just as we're sitting here doing this segment last night, they turned the lights off on us, today they're letting everyone know that the event is over. So on that note, I just want to say, Lisa, thank you so much. Such a warm welcome to the team. >> Thank you. >> John, what would we do without you? >> You did an amazing job. First CUBE, three days. It's a big show. You got staying power, I got to say. >> Lisa: Absolutely. >> Look at that. Not bad. >> You said it on camera now. >> Not bad. >> So you all are stuck with me. (all laugh) >> A plus. Great job to the team. Again, we do so much flow here. Brandon, Team, Andrew, Noah, Anderson, Frank. >> They're doing our hair, they're touching up makeup. They're helping me clean my teeth, staying hydrated. >> We look good because of you. >> And the guests. Thanks for coming on and spending time with us. And of course the sponsors, again, we can't do it without the sponsors. If you're watching this and you're a sponsor, support theCUBE, it helps people get what they need. And also we're do a lot more segments around community and a lot more educational stuff. >> Savannah: Yeah. So we're going to do a lot more in the EU and beyond. So thank you. >> Yeah, thank you. And thank you to everyone. Thank you to the community, thank you to theCUBE community and thank you for tuning in, making it possible for us to have somebody to talk to on the other side of the camera. My name is Savannah Peterson for the last time in Detroit, Michigan. 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