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Talks & Presentations Collection

Future history
December 15, 2019

Future history

When Fastly CEO Artur Bergman helped organize the first Velocity event 10 years ago, the tech landscape was very different. Artur looks back at the last decade of DevOps and explores shifting patterns in operations, development, and systems through the lens of the Velocity Conference.

Genesis: Automating data center management with help from PXE and Chef

Genesis: Automating data center management with help from PXE and Chef

December 15, 2019

The flexibility and speed offered by cloud computing solutions have raised the bar for bare metal deployments. Automation is essential to speedy, reliable provisioning and capacity management. David Radcliffe explores the tools Shopify uses, such as Genesis, to automate its data center and empower developers to move quickly and keep up with the times.
How Shutterfly migrated 10+ billion photos to the cloud

How Shutterfly migrated 10+ billion photos to the cloud

December 15, 2019

Jack Chan describes how Shutterfly migrated metadata from over 10B photos from a private data center into AWS in 100 days and explores designs to absorb mountains of metadata, on-premises ecommerce integration, and parallel user experiences, all in a highly scalable fashion. Shutterfly Photos is now a hybrid cloud solution with images hosted on-premises and client-facing photos metadata on AWS.
How to scale a distributed system

How to scale a distributed system

December 15, 2019

It seems like everyone is building a distributed system. However, there's no common body of knowledge about how these systems should be built and scaled, beyond what is squirreled away in various academic papers. Henry Robinson shares lessons learned from over eight years spent building distributed systems and outlines a framework for thinking about distributed scaling challenges.
Internet traffic growth: Why platforms are critical for developers (sponsored by Akamai)

Internet traffic growth: Why platforms are critical for developers (sponsored by Akamai)

December 15, 2019

Using statistics about internet traffic patterns and growth from the past decade as a backdrop, Corey Scobie shares insights as to how and why edge computing clouds are so critical to the success of builders of scalable apps.
It's not just automation: Culture matters for when things break in DevOps (sponsored by Atlassian)

It's not just automation: Culture matters for when things break in DevOps (sponsored by Atlassian)

December 15, 2019

Ever had an incident that didn't go as planned? Patrick Hill shares five values developed by Atlassian SREs to better handle incident management.
Lessons and best practices learned from monitoring next-generation infrastructure (sponsored by SignalFx)

Lessons and best practices learned from monitoring next-generation infrastructure (sponsored by SignalFx)

December 15, 2019

Modern infrastructure and DevOps practices are evolving rapidly. These trends pose a new set of monitoring challenges. Arijit Mukherji shares real-world examples demonstrating what these challenges are, some approaches that worked, and metrics system capabilities that helped SignalFx deal with the challenge.
Lessons learned from building a globally distributed database service from the ground up

Lessons learned from building a globally distributed database service from the ground up

December 15, 2019

Dharma Shukla explores Azure Cosmos DB, discussing the internals of the system design and the various design trade-offs Azure had to make while building the service. Dharma also shares his experience and lessons learned operating a globally distributed database service worldwide while maintaining comprehensive service level agreements.
Lightning Talk: Essentials for Building Your Own Database-as-a-Service [B]

Lightning Talk: Essentials for Building Your Own Database-as-a-Service [B]

December 15, 2019

This session will discuss about essential blueprint for building and operating a database platform as a service by taking advantage of Kubernetes and its persistent storage support for stateful contai …
Lightning Talk: How Kubernetes is Helpful for Accelerating Machine Learning Research and Engineering [I]

Lightning Talk: How Kubernetes is Helpful for Accelerating Machine Learning Research and Engineering [I]

December 15, 2019

In this lightning talk, the presenter shares his experience on helping machine learning research and engineering with kubernetes. k8s is not only a tool for managing microservices but also helpful for …
Lightning Talk: How to Contribute to Kubernetes [B]

Lightning Talk: How to Contribute to Kubernetes [B]

December 15, 2019

Do you want to contribute to Kubernetes? Not sure how or where to begin? It can be overwhelming! But fear not - you can join the thousands of successful contributors too! In this talk well explore t …
Lightning Talk: Stupid Kubectl Tricks

Lightning Talk: Stupid Kubectl Tricks

December 15, 2019

A whirlwind tour of some of the most useful, interesting, and under-sold features the Kubernetes command-line has to offer. …
Lightning Talk: Telepresence: Local Development & Debugging of Remote Kubernetes Services

Lightning Talk: Telepresence: Local Development & Debugging of Remote Kubernetes Services

December 15, 2019

Developers who use Kubernetes for multi-container applications face a conundrum: develop locally or on a remote Kubernetes cluster. Local development adds complexity to your development environment, s …
Lightning Talk: Templating K8s: Easily Managing Applications via Common Configuration [B]

Lightning Talk: Templating K8s: Easily Managing Applications via Common Configuration [B]

December 15, 2019

Like many other companies, Yahoo is working to containerize many legacy applications, managed with Kubernetes. In order to onboard several hundred applications and libraries, Kubernetes configuration …
Lightning Talk: Watch This!

Lightning Talk: Watch This!

December 15, 2019

Rippy will demonstrate Docker running on his rooted Android Wear watch. To get this working required Docker, OpenEmbedded, Yocto, and AsteroidOS which he'll explain. If all goes well with the demonst …
Lightning Talk: Why is Community so Important? [B]

Lightning Talk: Why is Community so Important? [B]

December 15, 2019

I believe one of the reasons Kubernetes has grown in popularity so rapidly in the past few years has a bit to do with its community. I want to share my experience as a member of the Kubernetes communi …
Managing engineering teams through constant change

Managing engineering teams through constant change

December 15, 2019

Constant changecaused by high attrition, frequent reorganization, shifting priorities, and management turnover, among other reasonsis the new normal. It takes months to onboard a new team member and get them adding value. Kathleen Vignos offers tips, shortcuts, and stories for stabilizing a team and finding a path to productivity amid the chaos.
Microservices secrets management with Vault

Microservices secrets management with Vault

December 15, 2019

It's great that you've moved to microservices, but how are you distributing secrets? Seth Vargo offers an overview of Vault's unique approach to secret management by providing secrets as a service for your services (and humans too), which is highly scalable and easily customizable to fit any environment.
Nomad and next-generation application architectures

Nomad and next-generation application architectures

December 15, 2019

Armon Dadgar offers an overview of Nomad, an application scheduler designed for both long-running services and batch jobs. Along the way, Armon explores the benefits of using schedulers for empowering developers and increasing resource utilization and how schedulers enable new next-generation application architectures.
Container Runtime and Image Format Standards - What it Means to be OCI-Certified [I] - Jeff Borek, IBM &

Container Runtime and Image Format Standards - What it Means to be OCI-Certified [I] - Jeff Borek, IBM &

December 14, 2019

With the proliferation and rapid growth of container-based solutions over the past few years including container-based solutions from almost all major IT vendors, cloud providers, and emerging start- …
Lightning Talk: CRI Proxy: Solving the Chicken-and-Egg Problem of Running a CRI Implementation as a DaemonSet [I]

Lightning Talk: CRI Proxy: Solving the Chicken-and-Egg Problem of Running a CRI Implementation as a DaemonSet [I]

December 14, 2019

CRI allows for special-purpose CRI implementations such as Virtlet, which makes it possible to run VMs as if they were containers. Still, deployment of these CRI implementations may bring us back to p …
Lightning Talk: Minikube Developer Workflow and Advanced Tips [B]

Lightning Talk: Minikube Developer Workflow and Advanced Tips [B]

December 14, 2019

A brief overview of the tools available in minikube to simplify building and testing your applications on a local Kubernetes cluster. - Bootstrapping minikube with kubeadm, - Running minikube in Tra …
Lightning Talk: REST, RPC, and Brokered Messaging

Lightning Talk: REST, RPC, and Brokered Messaging

December 14, 2019

Effective communication between distributed and heterogeneous components is essential for modern service-oriented architectures to work well. REST, RPC, and brokered messaging are the most popular com …
Observability in a dynamically scheduled world

Observability in a dynamically scheduled world

December 14, 2019

Over the past year, DigitalOcean's Delivery team has been building a runtime platform based on Kubernetes with the goal of making shipping code easier. A core component of this system is a monitoring and alerting system based on Prometheus and Alertmanager. Sneha Inguva offers an overview of the system and shares problems encountered, potential solutions, and key lessons learned in the process.
Orchestrating chaos: Applying database research in the wild

Orchestrating chaos: Applying database research in the wild

December 14, 2019

Lineage-driven fault injection (LDFI), a novel approach to automating failure testing, can greatly reduce the number of faults that must be explored via fault injection. Peter Alvaro explores LDFIs theoretical roots in the database research notion of provenance and presents early results from the field and opportunities for near- and long-term future research.
Orchestrating multihomed cloud services for a fast and resilient edge

Orchestrating multihomed cloud services for a fast and resilient edge

December 14, 2019

With members in every corner of the world, LinkedIn has built services around six CDNs, numerous PoPs, and three DNS platforms. Samir Jafferali explains how LinkedIn uses big data to steer DNS intelligently, optimizes the CDNs for performance, mitigates DDoSes, and measures metrics using RUM and synthetic monitoring and shares best practices that edge teams of all sizes can benefit from.
Perception and bias and metrics, oh my! (sponsored by Catchpoint)

Perception and bias and metrics, oh my! (sponsored by Catchpoint)

December 14, 2019

Human perception and biases can influence how metrics are interpreted. While valid metrics can open lines of communication across and within teams, using vanity metrics or data to shame others can be counterproductive. Dawn Parzych explains how you can make a real and lasting impact on your organization by understanding the influence assumptions and biases have and how to present credible data.
Performance analysis superpowers with Linux eBPF

Performance analysis superpowers with Linux eBPF

December 14, 2019

Advanced performance observability and debugging has arrived in Linux 4.x, with enhanced BPF (eBPF). Brendan Gregg offers an overview of Linux's new dynamic and static tracing tools for the analysis of filesystems, storage, CPUs, TCP, and more. Join in to explore a new generation of tools and visualizations.