monitoring

100G+ Data-Center Evolution and Challenges

100G+ Data-Center Evolution and Challenges

January 1, 2020

Data centers around the globe are migrating to fiber. The move to cloud services, massive virtualization and explosive growth in data have transformed the business …
Driving financial inclusion in emerging markets using alternate data and big data analytics

Driving financial inclusion in emerging markets using alternate data and big data analytics

January 1, 2020

Access to credit in emerging markets is impeded by issues around identity verification, risk assessment and monitoring, and the costs of underwriting and collections. At the core of it all is a lack of data. Amit Das explains how accessing alternate data, real-time risk monitoring and data access solutions, and smart analytics is changing the lending landscape in India.
Energy monitoring with a self-taught deep network

Energy monitoring with a self-taught deep network

January 1, 2020

Energy usage is a significant part of daily life, so the ability to monitor this use offers a number of benefits, from cost savings to improved safety. A key challenge is the lack of labeled data. Yiqun Hu shares a new solution: a RNN-based network trained to learn good features from unlabeled data.
Case Study: Kubernetes at Comcast

Case Study: Kubernetes at Comcast

December 31, 2019

As ofSeptember 1st, Comcast VIPER has deployed Kubernetes to 8 distinct physical locations. Three of these locations are production sites, running applications that provide video services to paying s …
Logging for Containers

Logging for Containers

December 31, 2019

The implementation of Linux Containers provides enough flexibility to isolate applications with restricted access to CPU, memory and networking within others. While this technology is stable and produ …
Mission Critical Kubernetes

Mission Critical Kubernetes

December 30, 2019

A talk about the challenges we faced and the solutions we came up with to utilise kubernetes to deliver an enterprise mission critical system for ourselves and our customers that delivers 100% functio …
Chronix as Long Term Storage for Prometheus

Chronix as Long Term Storage for Prometheus

December 29, 2019

Prometheus is great when it comes to monitoring and alerting. But the long term storage opportunities are comparatively weak compared to related time series databases (missing data distribution, shard …
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 …
Track: Practical BGP Origin Validation using RPKI: Vendor Support, Signing and Validation Services, and Operational Experience

Track: Practical BGP Origin Validation using RPKI: Vendor Support, Signing and Validation Services, and Operational Experience

December 29, 2019

Malicious BGP route hi-jacks and and accidental mis-originations continue to threaten the security and robustness of the global Internet. Over the last several yea …
Ten Lessons From Telemetry

Ten Lessons From Telemetry

December 27, 2019

Streaming telemetry data enables network operators to bring network monitoring out of the 20th century and into the rich space of big data analytics. Having spent …
Hands-on DNSSEC with DNSViz

Hands-on DNSSEC with DNSViz

December 26, 2019

DNSSEC enables the authentication of DNS responses. Despite this benefit, expert DNS operators have observed that there are challenges in understanding, deploying, …
Move Fast, Unbreak Things!

Move Fast, Unbreak Things!

December 26, 2019

Every network fails, and large networks fail more often. Many times the issue is clearly visible, but every now and then there is something that goes by undetected …
Research and Education Track

Research and Education Track

December 26, 2019

The R&E track will feature presentations of some promising new ideas on both BGP measurement and analysis as well as DDoS defense. The following talks will be pres …
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.
AMP: Does it really make your site faster?

AMP: Does it really make your site faster?

December 24, 2019

Accelerated mobile pages (AMP) deliver a fast user experience for mobile devices by placing restrictions on the AMP markup and its ability to run code. Without code, how can we gather analytics or validate that our AMP pages are fast? Nic Jansma and Nigel Heron demonstrate how to gather RUM for AMP.
Kubernetes and Prometheus: The beginning of a beautiful friendship

Kubernetes and Prometheus: The beginning of a beautiful friendship

December 22, 2019

Kubernetes and Prometheus are still pretty young, but somehow they immediately fell in love when they first met early last year. And now Prometheus has moved into the shiny new CNCF building that Kubernetes has called home for a while. Bjrn Rabenstein explores how the first two projects hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation work together.
Ops-friendly microservices: Front to back

Ops-friendly microservices: Front to back

December 21, 2019

There's more to microservices than just being small. Modern service-oriented architectures typically reside in more volatile environments, and the lifespan of a single service instance is much shorter than it used to be. Rick Fast explores how to design services and their infrastructure to allow for dynamic placement, resiliency, monitoring, and discovery.
Own your reliability

Own your reliability

December 21, 2019

Who do you trust? What do you control? What are your dependencies? Reliability on the Internet is an adrenaline-fueled adventure, but we all want a good night sleep and working service sometimes. Adam Surk takes a closer look at some reliability nightmares and explains how they could be dealt with.
Building a powerful data tier from open source datastores

Building a powerful data tier from open source datastores

December 19, 2019

In the past few years, there has been a proliferation of production-ready open source databases, giving developers and operators more choices than ever. Joseph Lynch explores how Yelp has combined complimentary data stores to provide a powerful data tier for our developers. Along the way, Joseph shares lessons learned about deployment, configuration, and monitoring from a production environment.
Architecting for change: LinkedIn's new data ecosystem

Architecting for change: LinkedIn's new data ecosystem

December 16, 2019

Shirshanka Das and Yael Garten describe how LinkedIn redesigned its data analytics ecosystem in the face of a significant product rewrite, covering the infrastructure changes, such as client-side activity tracking, a unified reporting platform, and data virtualization techniques to simplify migration, that enable LinkedIn to roll out future product innovations with minimal downstream impact.
Beyond Hadoop at Yahoo: Interactive analytics with Druid

Beyond Hadoop at Yahoo: Interactive analytics with Druid

December 16, 2019

Himanshu Gupta explains why Yahoo has been increasingly investing in interactive analytics and how it leverages Druid to power a variety of internal- and external-facing data applications.
From silos to a single pane of glass at USA TODAY NETWORK

From silos to a single pane of glass at USA TODAY NETWORK

December 2, 2019

Three years ago, technical teams at USA TODAY NETWORK were completely siloed, making improvements and troubleshooting difficult and often blind to the rest of the technical organization. Bridget Lane and Kris Vincent explain how drastically the teams' tool belts, thought processes, and goals have changed as the company moved from silos to a single pane of glass.
How to break up with your vendor

How to break up with your vendor

December 1, 2019

You're unsatisfied with one of your monitoring providers. You've considered finding a new solution, but the thought of migrating your data off their platform sounds extremely painful. Amy Nguyen and Cory Watson explain how to make a deadline for an infrastructure-critical software migration while ensuring that everyone's requirements are met and no data has been lost.
SLO burn

SLO burn

November 29, 2019

Jamie Wilkinson offers a brief overview of SLOs, shares a practical guide to implementing sustainable SLO-based alerting for systems of any size, and outlines the tooling required to supplement the system in the absence of cause-based alerting.
A practical guide to monitoring and alerting with time series at scale

A practical guide to monitoring and alerting with time series at scale

November 28, 2019

Monitoring only sucks when the cost of maintenance scales proportionally with the size of the system being monitored. Recently, tools have emerged that assist with scaling out monitoring configurations sublinearly with the size of the system. Jamie Wilkinson explores time series-based alerting and offers practical examples that can be employed in your environment today.
Tracing polyglot systems: An OpenTracing tutorial

Tracing polyglot systems: An OpenTracing tutorial

November 28, 2019

Priyanka Sharma and Yuri Shkuro demonstrate how distributed tracing works and how to employ it in the development and operations of your applications in the programming language of your choice: Java, Go, Python, Node.js, C#, or C++.
Zero to Kubernetes in five minutes (sponsored by Mesosphere)

Zero to Kubernetes in five minutes (sponsored by Mesosphere)

November 28, 2019

Getting Kubernetes up and running is only half the battle. Now you need to get the supporting infrastructure in place. Dan Mennell shares a templated approach to deploying what is needed to get started with source control, CI/CD, and monitoring with Prometheus, along with other things.
Building and operating containerized applications at scale (Day 1)

Building and operating containerized applications at scale (Day 1)

November 27, 2019

The advantages of containerized applications are increasingly recognized. Michael Hausenblas provides a gentle introduction to building and operating containerized applications at scale. The first day focuses on the basics of building app using containers; the second day expands this knowledge, focusing on the operations (monitoring, upgrades, etc.) of these apps.