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Autoscaling Containers... with Math

Autoscaling Containers... with Math

January 1, 2020

Docker and Kubernetes provides delightful APIs to show various statuses of our applications. From CPU, Load average, HTTP response times, etc. we all have what we need to make sure our app is running …
Ok, We Got YANG Data Models, Now What?

Ok, We Got YANG Data Models, Now What?

January 1, 2020

This session describes how to significantly simplify network programmability using APIs generated from YANG data models. Model-driven APIs allow the network progra …
Network Automation with State Machines

Network Automation with State Machines

December 31, 2019

Automation has become vital to building large scale networks. However, building these networks and managing their entire life cycle with minimal human intervention …
Delivering Services at DigitalOcean

Delivering Services at DigitalOcean

December 30, 2019

Though kubernetes itself provides a rich collection of resources to deploy services it also comes with a bundle of complexity. This is where DOCC (DigitalOcean Control Center) comes in. This talk will …
Life of a Kubernetes API Request

Life of a Kubernetes API Request

December 30, 2019

We'll follow an API request through the Kubernetes API stack, starting from kubectl and ending with the storage layer (etcd). This is targeted at people who want to develop Kubernetes itself. We will …
Migration of NCSOFT Game Servers to Kubernetes

Migration of NCSOFT Game Servers to Kubernetes

December 30, 2019

NCSOFT, established in 1997 and headquartered in South Korea, is a key leader in online games with its flagship product, Lineage. Today, NCSOFTs reach has expanded worldwide including locations in Ko …
Test your way to a better deployment!

Test your way to a better deployment!

December 30, 2019

Ever wondered why your network deployment timelines always get pushed out? Or why your network config validation takes weeks, sometimes months? Could you enable be …
Third Party Dynamic Volume Provisioners

Third Party Dynamic Volume Provisioners

December 30, 2019

Kubernetes 1.4 introduces an API for dynamic provisioning of persistent volumes by third party provisioners. Any storage vendor, big or small, open or proprietary, can write a standalone plugin that c …
Managing a Multi-Tenanted Kubernetes Cluster in Production

Managing a Multi-Tenanted Kubernetes Cluster in Production

December 29, 2019

Kubernetes clusters dedicated to a single organization are becoming common, either run by the organizations that use them or hosted by others. Less common is a multi-tenant use of a single cluster. T …
Prometheus Is Good for Your Small Startup

Prometheus Is Good for Your Small Startup

December 29, 2019

ShuttleCloud is a small startup specialized in email and contacts migrations. We developed a reliable migration platform in high availability used by clients like Gmail, Gcontacts and Comcast. For exa …
Enter the Matrix, Exploring Your Kubernetes Cluster in Virtual Reality

Enter the Matrix, Exploring Your Kubernetes Cluster in Virtual Reality

December 28, 2019

This is a combination of fun hack + potentially real-world use-case (sometime in the future). The idea is to use WebVR and a Kubernetes API client to render a Kubernetes cluster in a Virtual Reality e …
Pachyderm: Unlock the Power of Kubernetes for Big Data

Pachyderm: Unlock the Power of Kubernetes for Big Data

December 28, 2019

Pachyderm is an open source big data analytics platform completely deployed on Kubernetes. Pachyderm leverages K8s's jobs API to process massive data workloads and build streaming pipelines. Pachyd …
Cloud architectures for data science

Cloud architectures for data science

December 27, 2019

Data is available from an incredible number of sources in an endless number of formats. Data science deals with the extraction of valuable insights from this jumble in the form of attractive visualizations. Walking you through several examples using practical tools and tricks, Margriet Groenendijk presents a typical workflow that offers a basic introduction to data science.
Coding BOF

Coding BOF

December 26, 2019

This pilot of a "Coding BOF" will be a unrecorded session, that will not require slides, where those interested could join together to share ideas and present the …
Lazy event sourcing: Living in the now

Lazy event sourcing: Living in the now

December 26, 2019

Yurii Rashkovskii shares a set of practical of approaches to designing event-sourcing-based systems, including a method of building the state of the world that uses a "lazy first" approach. This approach suggests that we don't know what the state of the world should include up front and therefore should defer this decision until the very end.
Platform as product: Serving the customer who serves the customer

Platform as product: Serving the customer who serves the customer

December 26, 2019

Whether an organization is an established leader, or breaking new ground, the mantra is always that we need to move faster. And of course, we need to scale. Architectural and development practices abound that should get us there: agile engineering, microservices, DevOps and so on. But it is not just the our software that needs to scale, but also our approach to delivering it.
POSIX for the data center

POSIX for the data center

December 26, 2019

The container orchestration wars are upon us. A dozen container orchestrators vie to be the kernel of the modern data center. But can the warring parties come together on a standard interface for modern cluster operations? Karl Isenberg explores what these parties have in common and outlines what a common interface might look like for operating these distributed operating systems.
Common vulnerabilities and exposures in containers: What to know

Common vulnerabilities and exposures in containers: What to know

December 25, 2019

Clair is an open source container image security analyzer that enables developers to build services that scan containers for security threats and vulnerabilities. Quentin Machu offers an overview of Clair and explores a real-life example to demonstrate how Clair is able to automatically detect known vulnerabilities in Docker and rkt containers before they get exploited.
Launching products at massive scale: The DevOps way

Launching products at massive scale: The DevOps way

December 22, 2019

Everything changes at scale. Launching products at a scale of 1+ billion users requires a massive cross-team, cross-functional, coordinated effort, and business, engineering, and cultural challenges must be overcome. Kishore Jalleda and Gopal Mor explain how they have applied DevOps best practices at scale to successfully launch several high-profile products at Yahoo.
Need for speed: Accelerate automation tests from three hours to three minutes

Need for speed: Accelerate automation tests from three hours to three minutes

December 22, 2019

The elephant in the room that every developer ignores is that all automated tests (except unit) are too slow for todays fast-paced, first-to-market environment. With slow automated tests, youre just shipping problems faster to production. Emanuil Slavov explains how the team at Komfo made automated tests run 60x faster using containers, hermetic servers, and improved architecture.
Progressive web apps for a faster experience

Progressive web apps for a faster experience

December 21, 2019

Several APIs are available on modern browsers to help performance, including Service Worker, Push Notifications, NetInfo API, the Cache Storage API, and the older Application Cache. Through hands-on labs, Maximiliano Firtman walks you through using these APIs to create a progressive web app and improve performance and perception on a website.
Bots that fight bureaucracy

Bots that fight bureaucracy

December 20, 2019

Bots are able to automate human tasks for which there aren't APIslike contesting a parking ticket or applying for homeless assistance. Joshua Browder's DoNotPay bots have sliced through various bureaucracies since late 2015, vastly reducing the effort required to interact with government agencies.
The Web Performance Working Group and you

The Web Performance Working Group and you

December 20, 2019

Yoav Weiss explores where web standards come from, the role of the Web Performance Working Group, new and forthcoming performance-related APIs, and how to push that cool idea you have for a new web API.
Design and user experience

Design and user experience

December 19, 2019

Voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa have become compelling platforms for bot creators, and voice will become an essential part of any bot creator's toolkit as APIs for Siri, Cortana, and Google Now become available. However, translating functionality into voice user interfaces can be extremely difficult. We've invited Cathy Pearl, an authority on VUI design, to give an overview of the field.
Learning microservices in the open with GameOn!

Learning microservices in the open with GameOn!

December 17, 2019

There are plenty of talks out there about how to get started with microservices, but in reality you learn by doing. Erin Schnabel and Katherine Stanley explore lessons learned while creating GameOn!, an interactive text-based adventure game that allows you to get hands-on with a microservice architecture to find out what works and what doesn't, and how we as a community can learn from each other.
The wonderful world of webhooks

The wonderful world of webhooks

December 16, 2019

Webhooks allow our applications to exchange data as soon as it happens rather than polling using APIs. Lorna Mitchell covers creating, consuming, and deploying webhooks in a modern, microservices world.
How a Spark-based feature store can accelerate big data adoption in financial services

How a Spark-based feature store can accelerate big data adoption in financial services

December 12, 2019

Kaushik Deka and Phil Jarymiszyn discuss the benefits of a Spark-based feature store, a library of reusable features that allows data scientists to solve business problems across the enterprise. Kaushik and Phil outline three challenges they facedsemantic data integration within a data lake, high-performance feature engineering, and metadata governanceand explain how they overcame them.
Building and applying emotion recognition

Building and applying emotion recognition

December 7, 2019

Anna Roth and Cristian Canton walk you through building a system to recognize emotions by inferring them from facial expressions. Cristian and Anna explain how they trained their emotion recognition CNN from noisy data and how to approach labeling subjective data like emotion with crowdsourcing before showing a demo of this work in action, as it is exposed in Microsofts Emotion API.