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Talks & Presentations Collection

Distributed systems: What can go wrong will go wrong
January 20, 2020

Distributed systems: What can go wrong will go wrong

Forget Conway's law. In distributed systems, Murphys law rules: Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Anne Currie discusses common failure modes, how to approach diagnosing highly complex issues, and what we can learn from detectives like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Miss Marple.

Edge compute: The missing pieces

Edge compute: The missing pieces

January 20, 2020

Edge computing is a hot topic, but despite all the hype, there are still some major hurdles to overcome before it reaches its full potential. Tyler McMullen outlines the technical and economic challenges and explains how we can get past them.
Full Lifecycle Lessons from a Large Scale Government OpenStack Private Cloud

Full Lifecycle Lessons from a Large Scale Government OpenStack Private Cloud

January 20, 2020

This talk will draw on lessons learnt through the full lifecycle of large scale government OpenStack private cloud, from design and implementation, through to operation and upgrade. How to bring into …
Interconnection Track: Automated Peering Operations

Interconnection Track: Automated Peering Operations

January 20, 2020

What would "automated peering" look like in practise? Job Snijders set out to answer this question by fully automating the standard operating procedures related to …
Interconnection Track: Creating a Centralized Database for Peering and Colocation Services

Interconnection Track: Creating a Centralized Database for Peering and Colocation Services

January 20, 2020

Everyone in the industry needs access to reliable and accurate colocation and network data. PeeringDB is the most commonly used source for this information but its …
Interconnection Track: PeeringDB Update

Interconnection Track: PeeringDB Update

January 20, 2020

PeeringDB is an indispensable resource for peering information, and is now required by many networks in order to peer. In this presentation well talk about the ne …
NVMe: Solid-state Drives Meet PCI Express

NVMe: Solid-state Drives Meet PCI Express

January 20, 2020

Did you recently replace your Hard Disk by a Solid-State Drive in your servers? Are you satisfied with the speed? What if I told you that it could go even faster? This talk will look at NVM Express, a …
Panel Discussion: Finding your next gig

Panel Discussion: Finding your next gig

January 20, 2020

Are you a recent college graduate who is wondering about how to start your career in network field? Maybe you have been in the industry for a while but do not know …
The Anti-Pattern Wall of 2011 has Crumbled: Stateful Applications in Containers

The Anti-Pattern Wall of 2011 has Crumbled: Stateful Applications in Containers

January 20, 2020

The 12 factor app was written in 2011 and became a widely cited classic of useful patterns for application architecture. #6 on the list said: apps shall be stateless. There is some question as to w …
Tutorial: Segment Routing

Tutorial: Segment Routing

January 20, 2020

Segment Routing (SR) allows network operators to direct traffic from source to destination through an ordered set of segments. The SR path may be identical to or d …
Understanding SCHED_DEADLINE

Understanding SCHED_DEADLINE

January 20, 2020

Starting in Linux version 3.14, a new scheduling class was introduced. Called SCHED_DEADLINE, this scheduling class implements Earliest Deadline First (EDF) along with a Constant Bandwidth Scheduler ( …
When BGP meets Big-data

When BGP meets Big-data

January 20, 2020

The Internet is very much alive, with millions of BGP events occurring every day. BGP monitoring and reporting tools have been in use for many years now and are …
A Greybeard's Worst Nightmare - How Kubernetes and Containers are Re-defining the Linux OS

A Greybeard's Worst Nightmare - How Kubernetes and Containers are Re-defining the Linux OS

January 19, 2020

Containers and Kubernetes are having a deep impact on the Linux operating system (OS) that goes well beyond DevOps and cloud-native applications. The concepts of application-centric packaging, process …
Automating Access Control Lists with OpenDaylight and OpenVSwitch

Automating Access Control Lists with OpenDaylight and OpenVSwitch

January 19, 2020

Available Cloud solutions does not ever meet all requirements for company environments. With that in mind, Globo.com embraced an open cloud solutions, Apache Cloudstack, and began developing together …
BGP Optimal Route Reflection - Technology and Deployment

BGP Optimal Route Reflection - Technology and Deployment

January 19, 2020

Optimal Route Reflection is a software enhancement to the BGP best-path selection algorithm to eliminate the need for RRs be geographically close to their client. …
Boosting Linux Performance with GCC/GLIBC Latest Technologies

Boosting Linux Performance with GCC/GLIBC Latest Technologies

January 19, 2020

As the Linux community continues to redefine the boundaries of what is possible in a server-based Linux distribution running on new silicon, both power and performance play an increasingly important r …
Building a nationwide carrier for <$1M - war stories & lessons learned

Building a nationwide carrier for <$1M - war stories & lessons learned

January 19, 2020

From 2006 to 2010, Jonny and Tim were part of a small engineering team that built New Zealands 3rd nationwide telecommunications network, laying multiple thousand …
Building an aarch64 Linux Laptop

Building an aarch64 Linux Laptop

January 19, 2020

aarch64 processors are becoming more powerful all the time, and getting close to being comparable to x86 CPUs. Wouldn't it be nice to have a laptop with the power consumption (and battery life) of a t …
Building Open Source Project Infrastructures

Building Open Source Project Infrastructures

January 19, 2020

With the rise of continuous tooling in development, open source projects are keen to join the new wave of tooling which allows them to replicate this within their projects, rather than depending on su …
Container & Kubernetes Networking 101

Container & Kubernetes Networking 101

January 19, 2020

With the widespread adoption of Docker, containers have taken the DevOps world by storm. Cloud-native is the new programming paradigm. Since developers are not only the creators of these systems, but …
Emergent distributed architectures: Microservices and data pipelines

Emergent distributed architectures: Microservices and data pipelines

January 19, 2020

Peter Bourgon and Sean Braithwaite offer an overview of microservices and data pipelines, explaining how both systems reflect the organizations and people that build them (in adherence to Conways law) and can be well understood in terms of their relationship to change and time. You'll learn the virtues and vices of each architecture and get enough context to apply them coherently.
Failover early: When to failover at your CDN

Failover early: When to failover at your CDN

January 19, 2020

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Your risk mitigation strategy must layer the most cost-efficient strategies to effectively mitigate or reduce the adverse effects of failure. Manuel Alvarez explores using the CDN as a failover tool, reviewing use cases and demonstrating how to decide whether to use a CDN by evaluating costs, benefits, operations, and time to mitigate.
FPGA-accelerated data analytics (sponsored by Intel)

FPGA-accelerated data analytics (sponsored by Intel)

January 19, 2020

Microsoft has widely deployed field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for accelerating search, networking, and machine learningwith a little help from Intel's software expertise and its FPGA programmers. Mike Strickland explains how a single FPGA can deliver significant acceleration for multiple workloads.
Gaining Influence in an Open Source Community

Gaining Influence in an Open Source Community

January 19, 2020

In the open source developer community, code is king. But who is the kingmaker?Most people are used to operating in hierarchical, command and control environments, and often expect the same rules an …
Hashing on broken assumptions

Hashing on broken assumptions

January 19, 2020

Widely used techniques such ECMP and LAG rely on hardware-based hashing performed on a packet five-tuple to uniformly spread traffic over different links while ens …
How Linux Containers can Help to Manage Development Environments for IoT and Embedded Systems

How Linux Containers can Help to Manage Development Environments for IoT and Embedded Systems

January 19, 2020

In this presentation, Yan Vugenfirer will show appropriate techniques for seamless use of containers in development process for embedded and IoT. The implementation of those techniques will be demonst …
How secure are Docker containers?

How secure are Docker containers?

January 19, 2020

Docker offers many advantages, simplifying both development and production environments. But there is still uncertainty around the security of containers. Ben Hall answers the question, How secure are Docker containers?, exploring Docker's security model, its limitations, and how to handle them.
How to make a lion bulletproof: Setting up site reliability engineering (SRE) in a global financial organization

How to make a lion bulletproof: Setting up site reliability engineering (SRE) in a global financial organization

January 19, 2020

Did you read the OReilly book about Google SREs but doubt that SRE will work for your more traditional or more regulated company? Janna Brummel and Robin van Zijll explain how they implemented SRE in a global financial organization, providing an overview of methods and technologies and sharing lessons learned from a year of doing SRE.