[TALK]@Telematika

Talks & Presentations Collection

December 12, 2019

Microservices, Service Mesh, and CI/CD Pipelines: Making It All Work Together [I]

Microservices come with many advantages for massively scaling applications. With that comes many challenges around service communication and application updates. It is pretty simple to do blue/green d …

SIG Cluster Lifecycle Update

December 12, 2019

The Cluster Lifecycle SIG is the Special Interest Group that is responsible for building the user experience for deploying and upgrading Kubernetes clusters. Since splitting out of SIG Cluster Ops in …

Technical decision making for teams, the open source way

December 12, 2019

Juan Pablo Buritic explains how to use technical RFCs as a decision-making tool in your engineering organization to increase effectiveness. When implemented properly, technical RFCs can encourage trust and delegation, respectful discussions, knowledge sharing, and accountability and support good software design.

The false dichotomy of finders versus fixers (sponsored by SOASTA, now a part of Akamai)

December 12, 2019

Most tools designed to help you manage your systems fall into two categories: finders, such as monitoring services and log file analyzers, or fixers, such as cloud infrastructure providers or container orchestration. It's up to you to translate information from your finders into actions for your fixers. Cliff Crocker explains how to use intelligent analytics to connect data to actions.

The Mechanics of Deploying Envoy at Lyft

December 12, 2019

The idea of the "service mesh" is becoming very popular in microservice design circles. However, the mechanics of deploying one into an existing infrastructure are far from simple. In this talk we wil …

The problem with preaggregated metrics

December 12, 2019

Preaggregated metrics and time series form the backbone of many monitoring setups. They have many redeeming qualities but simply aren't sufficient for capturing or responding to the many ways things can go wrong in modern or complex systems. Christine Yen outlines the problems inherent in the use and implementation of preaggregated metrics.

The role of being technical in technical leadership

December 12, 2019

There is compelling evidence that technical workers want leaders who are strong technologists, leaders they believe they can learn from. What does this mean for those who wish to become engineering managers and technical leaders? How can you be an effective noncoding technical leader? Camille Fournier explores this conundrum and shares strategies to overcome it.

The True Costs of Running Cloud Native Infrastructure [B]

December 12, 2019

Never before have organizations wrestled with as much choice in how they compute and where they compute. The public cloud offers freedom from lead times and elasticity to manage changing workloads, bu …

Toward an intelligent and infinitely scalable decentralized cloud (sponsored by DFINITY)

December 12, 2019

DFINITY, a new kind of open cloud computing resource, takes the form of a decentralized network that conjures a performant "blockchain computer" with unbounded capacity that will act much like a gigantic shared mainframe for the world. Dominic Williams introduces the project and explores the foundational decentralized computing techniques it makes use of.

Troubleshooting data center networks: Fresh tools and perspectives

December 12, 2019

Dinesh Dutt explores network troubleshooting and explains how to avoid common network problems ranging from misconfigured cabling to misbehaving protocols, how a modern networking tool chest can help simplify network configurations, and how automation is improving troubleshooting turnaround times to minimize downtime.

WG Container Identity Update

December 12, 2019

Decomposing applications into containers and microservices has many advantages but it creates a foundational problem: we need a reliable and secure way to identify all of the pieces. Kubernetes runs y …

What we learned moving 65,000 Microsofties to DevOps on the public cloud (sponsored by Microsoft)

December 12, 2019

Martin Woodward tells the story of how Microsofts internal engineering systems are being transformed from a collection of disparate in-house tools built up over decades to One Engineering System with a globally distributed 24x7x365 service on the public cloud, utilizing modern techniques and industry-recognized open source technologies.

A whirlwind tour of ClojureScript

December 11, 2019

J. David Eisenberg offers a whirlwind tour of ClojureScript, a functional language that compiles to JavaScript, covering everything from basic syntax, variables, and function definitions to lists, vectors, and the map and reduce functions.

Access your device hardware with the W3C Generic Sensor API (sponsored by Intel)

December 11, 2019

Alexis Menard offers an overview of the new W3C Generic Sensor API, which enables you to use hardware sensors in your website or web app. Join in to learn how you can implement it today and catch a glimpse of future plans.

Advanced debugging with Chrome DevTools

December 11, 2019

Between race conditions, object references, and async stack traces, JavaScript can be hard to sift through. Modern browsers offer many tools for debugging, so why not use them? And now that Node works out of the box with DevTools, you can step through your Node stack too. Wayne Elgin illustrates the latest ways to masterfully march up and down your stack and solve your codes greatest mysteries.

Architecting web apps to just work offline

December 11, 2019

Offline web applications with native performance are no longer a myth. Islam Sharabash explains how to architect an application that loads offline, persists data to disk, and even resolves conflicts in data and shares the challenges he encountered, including managing optimistic updates, syncing, and performance on a single thread, and the solutions that worked best.

Async in JavaScript and readability in Redux

December 11, 2019

From callbacks to promises to generators to async/await, JavaScript has a myriad of ways to handle out-of-order events and processessome of which are more readable than others and some of which are more testable than others. Nicole Chung explores the readability and testability of each approach in detail.

Atomic design as a migration strategy

December 11, 2019

Atomic design is well suited for migrating web applications. Because you build complexity out of simple components, you can start small and slowly carve out your application. Harrison Harnisch shares how Buffer is migrating six years of development with atomic design.

Automating peace of mind with accessibility testing and CI

December 11, 2019

Marcy Sutton discusses open source web development tools and testing practices that can help your team develop a pragmatic and sustainable approach to accessible software, benefiting many people with disabilities.

Build a JavaScript development environment

December 11, 2019

Starting a new JavaScript project from scratch is overwhelming. Cory House provides a playbook outlining the key decisions you need to make to build a robust development environment that handles bundling, linting, transpiling, testing, and much more.

Building an Edge Computing Platform for Network Services Using Cloud Native Technology [I]

December 11, 2019

Edge computing have become increasingly important due to the demands of latency sensitive applications and explosion of data from end user devices in cases such as Internet of Things (IoT). One common …

Expand Your Spinnaker Pipeline to the Desktop [I]

December 11, 2019

Commit, build, test, push, build, test, deploy, test, promote, test, repeat. You can already use Kubernetes as the common platform for your entire lifecycle, but wouldnt it be cool to use one tool to …

Fluentd and Distributed Logging [I]

December 11, 2019

In container era, logging is very important because applications are distributed. This session talks about why Fluentd is needed and how fluentd resolves the distributed logging problem by flexible an …

How Netflix Is Solving Authorization Across Their Cloud [I]

December 11, 2019

Since 2008, Netflix has been on the cutting edge of cloud-based microservices deployments. In 2017, Netflix is recognized as one of the industry leaders at building and operating cloud native system …

Kubernetes SIG Schedule + Resource Management Working Group Deep Dive

December 11, 2019

Intro Introduce the leads Cover logistics, where to find SIGs, and how to participate Remote participation (i.e., Zoom, if possible) Topics Roadmap Triage: Leads to discuss roadmap for each SIG …

Modifying gRPC Services Over Time [I]

December 11, 2019

Services grow and stretch over time to accommodate features, bugs, and basic maintenance. Learn how gRPC services can change while managing existing clients. …

Queueing Theory, In Practice: Performance Modelling in Cloud-Native Territory [I]

December 11, 2019

Kubernetes and similar cloud-native infrastructure make it easier than ever to adjust a service's capacity based on variable demand. In practice, it's still hard to take observed metrics, and translat …

Building a Secure, Multi-Protocol and Multi-Tenant Cluster for Internet-Facing Services [A]

December 10, 2019

Exposing internal HTTP-based services to the Internet is a well supported and documented feature of Kubernetes. What's less well understood is how to do it for thousands of services running on behalf …