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Talks & Presentations Collection

Genji: A framework for building resilient near-real-time data pipelines
January 7, 2020

Genji: A framework for building resilient near-real-time data pipelines

Pinterest has to support real-time decision making while operating on petabyte-scale data. Swaminathan Sundaramurthy and Mark Cho offer an overview of Pinterest's real-time data pipeline (modeled on quasi-Kappa architecture), its impact on the company's systems, and tools and processes used and demonstrate how Pinterest models real-time ads analytics on the platform.

Giving Everyone Access To Open Source Best Practices: The OpenChain Curriculum

Giving Everyone Access To Open Source Best Practices: The OpenChain Curriculum

January 7, 2020

This talk will explain how the OpenChain Curriculum team assembled and released extensive compliance training material under CC-0 licensing. It will expand on how this material can be either used for …
Government is a system.

Government is a system.

January 7, 2020

In government, you can still find out-of-date tech practices like writing requirements for years or launching systems without monitoring. The government wants more effective technology. Meanwhile, everyone else wants a more effective government. Matt Cutts discusses how better technology can improve not just software systems but also trust in government itself.
How do you eat a whale? One byte at a time

How do you eat a whale? One byte at a time

January 7, 2020

Kelly Looney shares an incremental approach to introducing containers into complex, distributed applicationsresulting in modernization with less risk and more reward. Youll learn how to evaluate which components of your applications are best suited for containers, how to experiment safely and get fast feedback, and how to increase and scale your container adoption.
How LinkedIn determines the capacity limits of its services using live traffic

How LinkedIn determines the capacity limits of its services using live traffic

January 7, 2020

Susie Xia and Anant Rao explain how LinkedIn leverages live production traffic to determine service and resource bottlenecks at scale with a tool called Redliner and how you can use your current architecture to do the same.
hugetlbfs, Still Alive and Kicking

hugetlbfs, Still Alive and Kicking

January 7, 2020

Linux support for huge pages has been around since the early 2.6 time frame. When support was added, it followed the 'everything is a file' model and the result was hugetlbfs. hugetlbfs represents a p …
Instrumenting systems for arbitrary observability

Instrumenting systems for arbitrary observability

January 7, 2020

Observability (or lack thereof), like testability and maintainability, is a fundamental property of systems. But what does observable code look like? What instrumentation creates systems that are observable later in arbitrary ways, in circumstances you can't foresee? Baron Schwartz outlines the most useful things to know about observability in systems in production.
Isolated Container Runtime for Docker Images

Isolated Container Runtime for Docker Images

January 7, 2020

Isolated Container Runtime (Harshal Patil, IBM) - Docker by default uses a container runtime called runc to run containers using cgroups and namespaces. But Docker by design can run one or many runt …
Kubernetes training

Kubernetes training

January 7, 2020

Kubernetes, one of the highest velocity projects on GitHub, is quickly becoming the leading platform on which to build distributed applications. Sebastien Goasguen offers a Kubernetes primer, covering the architecture of a Kubernetes installation, the API objects that make up a distributed application on Kubernetes, and more.
Migrating Legacy Monoliths to Cloud Native Microservices Architectures on Kubernetes

Migrating Legacy Monoliths to Cloud Native Microservices Architectures on Kubernetes

January 7, 2020

Cloud Native architectures, such as those built on Kubernetes, are envied for their ability to segment different parts of an application into microservices that can separately be containerized, so tha …
Open Source Licensing 101

Open Source Licensing 101

January 7, 2020

The differences between FOSS licenses can be subtle and large. Sometimes, the importance of a FOSS license itself isn't totally understood. An overview of the various FOSS license types available to t …
Using Secure Keys for Disk Encryption

Using Secure Keys for Disk Encryption

January 7, 2020

Secure keys are a special kind of wrapped keys: keys wrapped by a wrapping key (KEK) that is securely located in an inaccessible environment (typically a hardware security module, aka HSM). Outside th …
A brave new world in mutable big data: Relational storage

A brave new world in mutable big data: Relational storage

January 6, 2020

To date, mutable big data storage has primarily been the domain of nonrelational (NoSQL) systems such as Apache HBase. However, demand for real-time analytic architectures has led big data back to a familiar friend: relationally structured data storage systems. Todd Lipcon explores the advantages of relational storage and reviews new developments, including Google Cloud Spanner and Apache Kudu.
Build Cloud Infrastructure with Cheap ARM Boards

Build Cloud Infrastructure with Cheap ARM Boards

January 6, 2020

The DozenCloud Project, based on OpenStack, proposes a reasonably efficient model to construct low power virtual private cloud computing systems based on the customization of open source software tech …
Death of the ESB: 10 Pitfalls in the Transition to Cloud-Native Integration

Death of the ESB: 10 Pitfalls in the Transition to Cloud-Native Integration

January 6, 2020

As we move from an ESB world to a microservices API focused world, the need for integration does not go away, if fact it is arguably far more important today than ever. Based on customer engagements, …
Linux Cryptographic Acceleration on an i.MX6

Linux Cryptographic Acceleration on an i.MX6

January 6, 2020

The recent hack of internet connected cameras highlights the need to secure IoT devices. This effort will require robust encryption. Luckily, some SoC devices provide cryptographic accelerators that c …
Managing server secrets at scale with a vaultless password manager

Managing server secrets at scale with a vaultless password manager

January 6, 2020

Ever wondered how to quickly and efficiently rollover all of your servers SSH keys or how to securely manage diskless systems? Ignat Korchagin outlines a simple approach that combines hardware support and a little cryptography to help operationalize the management of all the secrets in your cloud.
Microservices secrets management with Vault

Microservices secrets management with Vault

January 6, 2020

Its great that youve moved to microservices, but how are you distributing secrets? Seth Vargo offers an overview of Vaults unique approach to secret management by providing secrets as a service for your services (and your humans too), which is highly scalable and easily customizable to fit any environment.
Monitoring in the time of cloud native

Monitoring in the time of cloud native

January 6, 2020

As the systems we build become more distributed and (in the case of containerization) ephemeral, traditional monitoring tools prove to be grossly insufficient. Fortunately, the state of monitoring has evolved to meet these new demands, but it brings its own set of technical and organizational challenges. Cindy Sridharan offers an honest overview of monitoring challenges and trade-offs.
Running a massively parallel stream processing system at Netflix

Running a massively parallel stream processing system at Netflix

January 6, 2020

Keystone, a critical piece of Netflix's backend data infrastructure, ensures massive data movements and real-time event processing. Zhenzhong Xu leads a deep dive into Keystone's architecture and underlying stream processing engines, sharing insights and proven paths on how the company achieves multitenancy, scalability, and resilience in a complex cloud-native distributed system environment.
Serverless Data Pipelines with OpenWhisk

Serverless Data Pipelines with OpenWhisk

January 6, 2020

Functions as a service (FaaS) provide operational advantages over traditional architectures. Internet of Things, Chatbots and other programmatic platforms have benefitted from being implemented in thi …
SMACK Stack and Beyond - Building Fast Data Pipelines

SMACK Stack and Beyond - Building Fast Data Pipelines

January 6, 2020

Our world seems to move faster and faster and so are our requirements for data analytics. For many use cases such as fraud detection or reacting on sensor data the response times of traditional batch …
Struts 2, Equifax, and you: The story of the worst breach in history (sponsored by Contrast Security)

Struts 2, Equifax, and you: The story of the worst breach in history (sponsored by Contrast Security)

January 6, 2020

Arshan Dabirsiaghi explains what Contrast Security learned from the Struts 2 exploit and details how to stop the next attack against your production apps.
Systems management with a voice UI using Amazon Alexa

Systems management with a voice UI using Amazon Alexa

January 6, 2020

Voice UIs like Amazon's Alexa can make systems management simple, intuitive, and delightful. The virtual private assistant feel of a VUI, coupled with the abstraction that voice commands bring, break the tedium of management tasks. Karthik Kirupanithi demonstrates how to put together an Alexa skill that can perform tasks using the EC2 Systems Manager.
The impact of design: How design influences outcomes

The impact of design: How design influences outcomes

January 6, 2020

We like to think that technology can make the world a better place, but we (conveniently) forget how it can make it worse. Primum non nocere (first do no harm) is the first concept taught in medical school, serving as a reminder of the possible harm that any intervention might do. Cynthia Savard Saucier challenges the tech industry to come up with its own fundamental principle.
The phone book is on fire: Lessons from the Dyn DNS DDoS attack

The phone book is on fire: Lessons from the Dyn DNS DDoS attack

January 6, 2020

When the DDoS attack crushed Dyn last October, did your DNS fail? Heroku's sure did. In response, Lex Neva deep dove into everything DNS to learn how to implement resilient DNS properlyreading RFCs, asking questions of pros, and performing real-world experiments when no one knew the answers. Join Lex to find out what does work and all the crazy details of DNS that he uncovered.
Thriving under a continuous self-inflicted DDoS attack

Thriving under a continuous self-inflicted DDoS attack

January 6, 2020

New Relic customers send monitoring data to New Relic servers every minutea continuous firehose of data. Drawing on his experience at New Relic, Kevin Beck shares best practices for building a streaming service based on Apache Kafka, self-monitoring for reliability and fault tolerance, and building a DevOps culture that anticipates and prevents outages.
Unconventional programming paradigms for the future, now

Unconventional programming paradigms for the future, now

January 6, 2020

As technology advances, our systems are growing more and more complex, reaching the threshold of what we can handle and even comprehend. We need more than tools to keep it under control. We need new ways of thinking. Carin Meier explores new ways to approach systems and tame complexity for the rapidly changing future.