Pick My Project! Lessons Learned from Interviewing and Writing 20+ End User Case Studies

Day 1 | 12:05 | 00:25 | UB5.230 | Bill Mulligan

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Open source projects can promise the moon in their READMEs, but have you ever wondered what causes end users to actually adopt a project? Bill has interviewed over 20 companies in industries ranging from media to financial services about why they picked Cilium for their cloud native platform.

In this talk, he will reveal what end users truly want when adopting open source projects and what the forcing function was for each of them. You’ll hear firsthand accounts of why companies like DigitalOcean, Rabobank, and The New York Times chose to deploy a project to production, the specific benefits these organizations are reaping, from enhanced security and observability to improved performance and cost savings, and all the triumphs and tribulations along the way.

The talk will also teach other open source projects a process for creating impactful case studies to grow their community. By the end, the audience will how to grow their project with a case study program and why end users actually pick a project.