Xianyan Jia and Zhenhua Wang explore deep learning applications built successfully with BigDL. They also teach you how to develop fast prototypes with BigDL's off-the-shelf deep learning toolkit and build end-to-end deep learning applications with flexibility and scalability using BigDL on Spark.

Looking glasses (LG) servers enhance our visibility into Internet connectivity and performance by offering a set of distributed vantage points that allow both data …

In this session we will talk about the mechanism of supporting multi schedulers in a Kubernetes cluster. First we will give an overview of multi-scheduler frameworks in various cluster management syst …

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.

Performance of online applications directly impacts user satisfaction. A major component of the user-perceived performance of the application is the time spent in …

The Panama Papers investigation revealed the offshore holdings and connections of dozens of politicians and prominent public figures around the world and led to high-profile resignations, police raids, and official investigations. Almost 500 journalists had to sift through 2.6 terabytes of datathe biggest leak in the history of journalism. Mar Cabra explains how technology made it all possible.

Watermarks are a system for measuring progress and completeness in out-of-order streaming systems and are utilized to emit correct results in a timely manner. Given the trend toward out-of-order processing in existing streaming systems, watermarks are an increasingly important tool when designing streaming pipelines. Slava Chernyak explains watermarks and explores real-world applications.

In 2007, Pat Helland published "Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostates Opinion," in which he conducts a thought experiment on how to design a distributed database that can scale almost infinitely. While the paper explicitly addresses distributed database design, Sean Allen shows that the ideas are far more widely applicable, particularly in scaling stateful applications.

Surprisingly enough, academic papers can be interesting and very relevant to the work we do in industry as practitioners. Ines Sombra and Caitie McCaffrey demonstrate how academic papers can radically change your perspective and introduce you to new ideas, offering a tour of papers that have reshaped the way they think about building large-scale distributed systems.

Watermarks are a system for measuring progress and completeness in out-of-order stream processing systems and are used to emit correct results in a timely way. Given the trend toward out-of-order processing in current streaming systems, understanding watermarks is an increasingly important skill. Slava Chernyak explains watermarks and demonstrates how to apply them using real-world cases.

JavaScript frameworks seem like death and taxesinevitable and unavoidable. But that's not the way it needs to be, and actually, it must stop. Joseph Gregorio outlines the Zero Framework Manifesto and discusses his implementation experience building and shipping framework-free applications for the past two years.

Working for the government presents two major hurdles in open source development: getting your hands on open source developed libraries and finding ways to contribute to open source development in the workplace. Kathy Lee and Morgan Senkal discuss these challenges and offer possible solutions.

Martin Yip and Justin Murray explore the benefits of virtualization of Hadoop on vSphere and delve into three different examples of real-world deploymentsat small, medium, and large scalesto demonstrate how enterprises are currently deploying Hadoop differently on virtual machines.

We know its important as designers to serve a diverse societyto use our creative powers for good. One important step we can take is to change how people of color and people who live in socioeconomic distress are perceived and how they perceive themselves. Danyel Smith explains how HRDCVR is designed to be a luxury magazine true to the diverse society in which we all live.