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Talks & Presentations Collection

December 9, 2019

Kubernetes Deconstructed: Understanding Kubernetes by Breaking It Down [I]

Understanding Kubernetes as a whole can be daunting. With so many different components working together it can be hard to know how the pieces work together or where new products and features fit in. I …

SIG Jaeger Update

December 9, 2019

The Jaeger project was open sourced at the beginning of this year. In this update we will go through the current Jaeger features, give a short demo, and talk about the roadmap for the upcoming year. A …

State of Serverless [B]

December 9, 2019

Serverless and FaaS computing is gaining in popularity to easily create microservice applications. In this talk we will discuss what are the characteristics of serverless, the status of the serverless …

Building GPU-Accelerated Workflows with TensorFlow and Kubernetes [I]

December 8, 2019

GPUs are critical to some artificial intelligence workflows. In particular, workflows that utilize TensorFlow, or other deep learning frameworks, need GPUs to efficiently train models on image data. T …

Immutable data structures for functional JavaScript

December 8, 2019

Functional programmingprogramming without side effects or mutabilityhas great advantages, especially for JavaScript developers, but never mutating data can lead to efficiency problems. Anjana Vakil explains how immutable data structures provide an elegant solution and explores two libraries that make it easy to use these remarkable data structures in your own JavaScript projects.

Innovating with accessibility in mind

December 8, 2019

Building a better web means removing barriers for users and helping them live more productive lives. Marcy Sutton explores how the work we do with technology can have a monumental impact on the lives of people with disabilities by providing independence, privacy, and growth opportunities. But making a positive impact depends on our willingness to do the work.

Kubernetes Feature Prototyping with External Controllers and Custom Resource Definitions [I]

December 8, 2019

Getting patch into Kubernetes might be difficult. Getting a new feature into Kubernetes is… even more interesting experience. When working on the persistent volume snapshotting feature we realized t …

Kubernetes on AWS: Practices & Opinions [I]

December 8, 2019

A lot of progress has been made on how to bootstrap a cluster since Kubernetes' first commit. It is now only a matter of minutes to go from zero to a running cluster on Amazon Web Services. There are …

Locking it down: A security primer for web developers

December 8, 2019

Your users are almost certainly vulnerable in one way or another. Mike North explores a series of common web app security pitfalls, first demonstrating how to exploit the vulnerability and then recommending a pragmatic and effective defense against the attack. Buckle up, because Mike's about to take some things you love and depend on and smash them to bits.

Managing and Running Multiple Kubernetes Clusters in Hybrid Setups [I]

December 8, 2019

As hosting provider, SysEleven, runs and manages multiple Kubernetes clusters for various customers on different platforms. In this talk, we will give you a breakdown on how we run one single Google-l …

Managing engineering teams through constant change

December 8, 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.

Of monoliths and microservices: Adventures in structuring a web app

December 8, 2019

The US Digital Service is building a suite of tools to replace a large legacy application at the Department of Veteran Affairs. Knowing the complexity of the end state and enamored with microservices, the team was much too aggressive in breaking up the product. Shane Russell reflects on this experience, sharing advice and lessons learned on how and when to break up your web app.

Preventing Attacks at Scale [I]

December 8, 2019

Security hardening for containers, clusters, and operating systems is a very important part of setting up infrastructure and always "Plan A". The world of "Plan A" defends the importance of making sur …

Running Mixed Workloads on Kubernetes at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

December 8, 2019

The mission of the IHME is to apply rigorous measurement and analysis to help policy makers make better decisions on a range of health policy issues. Like other organizations, the IHME have embraced c …

Squash: A Debugger for Kubernetes Apps

December 8, 2019

Squash is a tool for debugging distributed applications. Most cloud native applications written today follow the microservice architecture. These applications are distributed by nature, and therefore …

Certifik8s: All You Need to Know About Certificates in Kubernetes [I]

December 7, 2019

Certificates are an integral part of a secure Kubernetes cluster deployment. They are mainly used to secure the Kubernetes API server using TLS, but certificates (and keys) are also used for other clu …

Extending the Kubernetes API: What the Docs Don't Tell You [I]

December 7, 2019

At the heart of Kubernetes is its API. Whilst on the surface it may appear relatively simple to use, under the hood is a beast of complex conversions, codecs and generators. In this talk, I'll show yo …

Hybrid-Cloud, HIPAA Compliant Enterprise with Kubernetes

December 7, 2019

This talk will outline how UPMC Enterprises utilizes Kubernetes on-premises and in a public cloud (AWS). Well see how a large enterprise balances SaaS offerings vs Kubernetes hosted services. We will …

Kubernetes Distributions and 'Kernels'

December 7, 2019

Kubernetes has historically released a full fledged distribution - everything you need. As the project gets more modular, that will become more complicated. This talk will explore the problems we face …

Perceived performance: The only kind that really matters

December 7, 2019

Perceived performance, in the end, is the only performance that truly matters. If what we make doesn't feel fast, then no amount of optimization counts. Eli Fitch breaks down the psychology of how users perceive time and how we can combine that knowledge with clever use of animation, unconventional event listeners, and predictive design to make our experiences seem faster than they actually are.

Progressive web apps: The new normal

December 7, 2019

Addy Osmani explains why progressive web apps (PWAs) are becoming the new normal for fast, reengaging mobile web experiences for large brands such as Twitter, Lyft, and Forbes. Addy also explores how PWA support has massively improved in modern frameworks like React, Preact, Polymer, and Vue, lowering the barriers for developers and businesses to explore them.

Reliably measuring responsiveness in the wild

December 7, 2019

Responsiveness to user interaction is crucial for users of web apps, but bad user experiences abound. Shubhie Panicker and Nic Jansma share new web performance APIs that enable developers to reliably measure responsiveness and correctly identify first- and third-party culprits for bad experiences. They then compare these measurements to business metrics using real-world data.

Reverse engineering Amazon and the Guardian

December 7, 2019

Despite spending countless hours optimizing our own sites, many of us still look at sites like Amazon's or the Guardian's in awe, wondering how they are still so much more performant. What are they doing differently? David Fox reverse engineers these sites, shedding light on the various tricks and optimizations they have and we don't.

Scaling to 5000+ Unique K8s Deployments, How We Did It [I]

December 7, 2019

Most organizations only need to run a couple deployments of their application in Kubernetes. In these situations, deploying onto Kubernetes clusters is relatively straightforward. What happens when yo …

Schema-first development with GraphQL

December 7, 2019

GraphQL improves both your API's performance and the performance of your team in general. Schema-first GraphQL development forces front- and backend teams to agree on a strict contract up front, enabling them to work quickly and efficiently while staying on spec. Danielle Man discusses the benefits of schema-driven development and shares lessons learned using GraphQL in production.

SIG Jaeger Deep Dive Session

December 7, 2019

This session is dedicated to an in-depth understanding of the Jaeger project. We will give a short demo, talk about various topics including the architecture, adaptive sampling, multi-tenancy, and con …

Tame the frontend with Elm

December 7, 2019

Elm is a functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript and allows building robust and safe web apps. Jeremy Fairbank dives into Elm's syntax and its Model-View-Update architecture, explaining the advantages Elm offers for developing frontend apps and how to structure a simple app with pure functions, and shares steps to getting started with Elm.

The browser hacker's guide to instantly loading everything

December 7, 2019

Venture deep into the belly of the browser to uncover the secret to instantly loading anythingbacked by data. Addy Osmani explains how to use preload, prefetch, preconnect, HTTP/2 server push, service workers, and more and how to ship JavaScript bundles on mobile that don't break the bank as he shares data-driven techniques and performance patterns for efficiently loading content instantly.