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The rise of the streaming platform
January 9, 2020

The rise of the streaming platform

Streaming platforms have emerged as a popular, new trend, but what exactly is a streaming platform? With Apache Kafka at the core, streaming platforms offer an entirely new perspective on managing the flow of data. Neha Narkhede shares examples of Kafka in action and explains why streaming platforms have become the central nervous system for modern digital businesses.

The road taken

The road taken

January 9, 2020

A few years ago, Gamesys began to modernize its platform. Moving to a containerized microservice architecture was a big part of this journey. While the road taken was long and bumpy, the team was able to fulfill most of its promises. Zsolt Sztupk shares Gamesys's experience, pinpointing various design decisions that both helped and hindered the team in achieving what they wanted.
The travel guide to a software system

The travel guide to a software system

January 9, 2020

Imagine that tomorrow you started work on a new software system. What would you need to know to be productive? What information would help you orient yourself, make better decisions, and know that you're heading in the right direction? Patrick Kua uses the analogy of the travel guide to help you decide what to document in your software systems.
Unlocking the mysteries of distributed microservice authorization

Unlocking the mysteries of distributed microservice authorization

January 9, 2020

In a monolith, authorization is easy. In a microservices world, you have to make hard choices about your data model and the abstractions on top of which authorization rules are built. Wilfried Schobeiri and Kasey Klipsch share an approach to implementing distributed authorization in a microservices context, covering fallacies, common pitfalls, and best practices along the way.
We cannot engineer the future of software without happy developers. (sponsored by SIG)

We cannot engineer the future of software without happy developers. (sponsored by SIG)

January 9, 2020

Software is the DNA of modern society. However, most organizations don't seem to care about the people who are fundamentally responsible for implementing their digital vision: software developers. Yiannis Kanellopoulos explores several deficiencies SIG found in its current approach to making developers excel and realizing prophesied potential. So how can you help? One word: empowerment.
What's in Your Containers? Tracing the Origin of Binaries

What's in Your Containers? Tracing the Origin of Binaries

January 9, 2020

We are all building containers from base images with possibly questionable pre-built binaries every day. Why? We do not know what is in our own containers. Modern software is routinely assembled from …
Collaborative Security: Securing Open Source Software

Collaborative Security: Securing Open Source Software

January 8, 2020

There is no set of practices that can guarantee that software will never have defects or vulnerabilities, whether that software is open source or proprietary. Even formal methods can fail if the speci …
Control-flow Enforcement Technology

Control-flow Enforcement Technology

January 8, 2020

Hackers often look for buffer overflow opportunities in an application and feed it illegal input data to overwrite function return addresses, combining with gadgets, manipulate normal program execut …
Creating pipelines to build, test, and deploy containerized artifacts

Creating pipelines to build, test, and deploy containerized artifacts

January 8, 2020

Containerization has launched a new wave of software deployment models, but do our philosophies for building, testing, and deploying software still hold true? Tom Adams walks you through creating a build pipeline for Docker images that is rooted in continuous integration (CI) practices.
Customer-centric observability

Customer-centric observability

January 8, 2020

With the recent flourishing of observability systems, there's no shortage of things to monitor. Sadly, humans have limited capacity to process them all. Mark McBride outlines three key metricsrequest rate, success rate, and the latency histogramthat provide a high-level abstraction of the customer experience. If these three metrics are good, your system is healthy from a customer perspective.
Debugging complex systems

Debugging complex systems

January 8, 2020

Terran Melconian explores an organized process for observing a misbehaving complex system, reasoning about possible causes, and isolating the fault. While it is not generally taught, all the successful senior engineers with operational experience Terran has talked to use a variant of this process.
Developing resilient microservices with Kubernetes and Envoy

Developing resilient microservices with Kubernetes and Envoy

January 8, 2020

Microservices are an increasingly popular approach to building cloud-native applications, and dozens of new technologies that streamline adopting microservices development, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Envoy, have been released over the past few years. Phil Lombardi, Rafael Schloming, and Richard Li walk you through actually using these technologies to develop, deploy, and run microservices.
ETW: Monitor anything, anytime, anywhere

ETW: Monitor anything, anytime, anywhere

January 8, 2020

Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) is the most important diagnostic tool Windows developers have at their disposal. Dina Goldshtein explores the rich and wonderful world of ETW events, which span numerous OS components. Youll learn how to diagnose complex issues in production systems and discover ways to automate ETW collection and analysis to build self-diagnosing applications.
Fly the airplane (sponsored by NS1)

Fly the airplane (sponsored by NS1)

January 8, 2020

During active operational incidents, we experience very human reactions that get in the way of resolution. Approaches like Incident Command provide solid foundations for incident response. Kristopher Beevers explains how to augment Incident Command with simple tools and processes that help your team focus, communicate effectively, and respond calmly and precisely during mission-critical events.
How We Built Fuel OpenStack Community: Challenges of OpenSource Projects

How We Built Fuel OpenStack Community: Challenges of OpenSource Projects

January 8, 2020

OpenStack allows easily add a new project into its ecosystem. But for that project itself to be alive and successful, its very important to build a community of developers and users around it. We at …
Mixed License FOSS Projects: Unintended Consequences, Worked Examples, Best Practices

Mixed License FOSS Projects: Unintended Consequences, Worked Examples, Best Practices

January 8, 2020

Many projects start out with the intention of staying single license FOSS projects. As your project grows, reality hits: some components or files may need to use different licenses than originally ant …
Open Source and Cross-Platform Tools for Azure Developers

Open Source and Cross-Platform Tools for Azure Developers

January 8, 2020

Azure is built around the open source developer. From our emphasis on .NET Core, PowerShell Core, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux to services like linux VMs, linux web apps, and support for contai …
Our Experiences Deploying Kubernetes with IPv6

Our Experiences Deploying Kubernetes with IPv6

January 8, 2020

IPv6 will turn 20 years old in 2018, IPv4 addresses are nearly extinct, it is time to give IPv6 a real chance. This talk will cover the process of deploying Kubernetes with IPv6 step by step. We will …
Performance Analysis Superpowers with Linux BPF

Performance Analysis Superpowers with Linux BPF

January 8, 2020

Advanced performance observability and debugging have arrived built into the Linux 4.x series, thanks to enhancements to Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF, or eBPF) and the repurposing of its sandboxed virt …
Understanding the Impact of the Scheduler on Your Application

Understanding the Impact of the Scheduler on Your Application

January 8, 2020

For today's applications, one of the challenging aspects is to optimally utilize the linux task scheduler. This is because the scheduler is expected to provide optimal performance across a wide range …
WTF My Container Just Spawned a Shell!

WTF My Container Just Spawned a Shell!

January 8, 2020

While there have been many improvements around securing containers, there is still a large gap in monitoring the behavior of containers in production. Enter Sysdig Falco, the open source behavioral ac …
CephFS The Stable Distributed Filesystem

CephFS The Stable Distributed Filesystem

January 7, 2020

Ceph is an open source distributed object store, network block device, and file system designed for reliability, performance, and scalability. The POSIX-compatible CephFS was declared stable in its ea …
Copyleft.org: The Definitive Guide for Copyleft Education and Compliance

Copyleft.org: The Definitive Guide for Copyleft Education and Compliance

January 7, 2020

Every organization involved with Open Source and Free Software has called for more educational resources about Free Software licensing. Historically, materials were written by a myriad of organizatio …
First 90 Days - Building an OSS Practice

First 90 Days - Building an OSS Practice

January 7, 2020

I have started and grown OSS practices and strategy inside 2 companies both of which may seem like unlikely OSS cultures. I will talk about my first 90 days of starting the OSS practice inside both co …
Four things I wish I'd known sooner about persistent memory

Four things I wish I'd known sooner about persistent memory

January 7, 2020

On the surface, adapting software to use persistent memory seems obvious. After all, persistent memory is simply fast memory that maintains state when the power goes out, like an SSD. But unlike SSDs, persistent memory challenges long-held ideas and conventions about how software works. Rob Dickinson outlines four key ideas that will help focus your persistent memory strategy.
FPGAs in the cloud?

FPGAs in the cloud?

January 7, 2020

FPGAs have become a hot topic in the IT industry, thanks to the unprecedented computing power that they bring to demanding HPC applications, and AWS recently introduced FPGA-powered instances (aka F1 instances) to make the process simpler and quicker. Julien Simon walks you through building an FPGA-enabled application, from design to simulation to synthesis to execution on an F1 instance.
From zero to distributed traces: An OpenTracing tutorial

From zero to distributed traces: An OpenTracing tutorial

January 7, 2020

Yuri Shkuro, Bryan Liles, Won Jun Jang, and Prithvi Raj walk you through implementing distributed tracing in modern applications, using the CNCFs OpenTracing project. You'll explore a set of sample applications and learn how to instrument them for tracing. You'll also use a tracing system such as Jaeger, Zipkin, or LightStep to visualize complex transactions that might span multiple processes.
FTFY: Research advances in automatic bug repair

FTFY: Research advances in automatic bug repair

January 7, 2020

Claire Le Goues shares recent advances in academic software engineering and programming languages research that aims to bring that dream to reality, using everything from metaheuristic search to program synthesis to machine learning and search over big databases of existing code to make it happen.