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DevOps Friendly Doc Publishing for APIs & Microservices

DevOps Friendly Doc Publishing for APIs & Microservices

December 13, 2019

Microservices create an explosion of internal and external APIs. These APIs need great docs. Many organizations end up with a jungle of wiki pages, swagger docs and API consoles. Keeping docs updated …
Kata Containers: Hypervisor-Based Container Runtime

Kata Containers: Hypervisor-Based Container Runtime

December 13, 2019

Kata Containers is a merge of 2 hypervisor based container runtime efforts: Hyper's runV and Intel's Clear Containers. With Kata Containers, each container is hypervisor isolated just like an EC2 or G …
Scheduling containers with Kubernetes: Is it that different than other schedulers?

Scheduling containers with Kubernetes: Is it that different than other schedulers?

December 13, 2019

Kubernetes has emerged as one of the leading container orchestrators. Sebastien Goasguen explores its architecture and compares it with other orchestration/scheduling systems, outlining the similarities and explaining why Kubernetes API primitives make all the difference.
14 ways to bounce a ball: A tour of the web animations ecosystem

14 ways to bounce a ball: A tour of the web animations ecosystem

December 12, 2019

There are more options than ever for animating things on the web. Bryan Braun leads a tour of the web animations ecosystem, comparing animation approaches in detail and exploring the principles that transcend them all. To do this, Bryan uses lessons learned from building and maintaining Bouncy Ball, a project that compares web animation approaches (think, a TodoMVC for web animation).
CRI-O: All the Runtime Kubernetes Needs, and Nothing More

CRI-O: All the Runtime Kubernetes Needs, and Nothing More

December 12, 2019

CRI-O is a brand new container runtime dedicated and optimized to support kubernetes workload. Its goal is to be a stable container runtime tied to kubernetes releases, replacing the docker daemon. H …
SIG Cluster Lifecycle Update

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

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.
How Netflix Is Solving Authorization Across Their Cloud [I]

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

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 …
Cross-platform progressive web apps

Cross-platform progressive web apps

December 10, 2019

Progressive web apps (PWAs) are the new hotness, and Google is pressing hard to make them the de facto choice for building mobile applications. But what about iOS, where many of the key APIs are not supported? Cordova/PhoneGap offers a solution, polyfilling the missing functionality. Simon MacDonald demonstrates how to create a PWA that runs on the web, Android, and iOS from a single code base.
If you Dont Monitor your Infrastructure, you Dont Own it! Regain Control Thanks to Prometheus [I]

If you Dont Monitor your Infrastructure, you Dont Own it! Regain Control Thanks to Prometheus [I]

December 10, 2019

In the French FedEx company we used Prometheus to monitor the infrastructure. It hosts a CQRS Architecture composed with Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, and microservices APIs in scala. This …
Building a Cluster Management API using Kubicorn [A]

Building a Cluster Management API using Kubicorn [A]

December 9, 2019

Kris Nova (Heptio) and Robert Bailey (Google) join forces and begin the difficult task of looking into the future of the infrastructure layer of Kubernetes. We start the talk with a brief summary of t …
Extending Kubernetes 101 [A]

Extending Kubernetes 101 [A]

December 9, 2019

Kubernetes provides the ability to extend the platform with your own custom types and controllers. We will walk through a tutorial to write a custom controller, also known as an operator. Patterns wil …
Kubernetes Feature Prototyping with External Controllers and Custom Resource Definitions [I]

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

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]

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

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 …
Reliably measuring responsiveness in the wild

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.
Schema-first development with GraphQL

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.
Vault and Secret Management in Kubernetes [I]

Vault and Secret Management in Kubernetes [I]

December 6, 2019

Secret data is everywhere, from database credentials, TLS certificates, API tokens, to encryption keys. Manageing secrets is a difficult challenge, but HashiCorp Vault provides an answer. In this talk …
WG Multitenancy Deep Dive

WG Multitenancy Deep Dive

December 6, 2019

Kubernetes has supported "soft" multitenancy since the beginning, with features such as namespaces, ResourceQuota, and resource-based scheduling. Over the years Kubernetes has added a number of sophis …
Securing Cluster Networking with Network Policies

Securing Cluster Networking with Network Policies

December 5, 2019

In a secure microservices cluster, you should only have the pods that need to communicate with each other to be able to establish network connections, and block all others. But how? Until recently, Ku …
Using Custom Resources to Provide Cloud Native API Management

Using Custom Resources to Provide Cloud Native API Management

December 5, 2019

API management is an essential component for all production services. Northwestern Mutual uses it to secure 100s of microservices deployed to our Kubernetes clusters every day! Learning from our API m …
Cloudy with a chance of on-prem

Cloudy with a chance of on-prem

December 4, 2019

The cloud is becoming pervasive, but it isnt always full of rainbows. Defining a strategy that works for your company or for your use cases is critical to ensuring success. Jim Scott explores different use cases that may be best run in the cloud versus on-premises, points out opportunities to optimize cost and operational benefits, and explains how to get the data moved between locations.
SIG Apps Update

SIG Apps Update

December 4, 2019

SIG Apps is the Special Interest Group that covers deploying and operating applications in Kubernetes. Being an area with a large surface area there's a lot going on. In this update session we'll look …
Using Kubernetes API from Go [B]

Using Kubernetes API from Go [B]

December 4, 2019

As Kubernetes becomes increasingly popular, the number of integration and monitoring services around it are also growing. The key component of any such service written in Golan is kubernetes/client-go …
Introduction to Alluxio (formerly Tachyon) and how it brings up to 300x performance improvement to Qunars streaming processing

Introduction to Alluxio (formerly Tachyon) and how it brings up to 300x performance improvement to Qunars streaming processing

December 2, 2019

Alluxiothe first memory-speed virtual distributed storage system in the worldunifies the data from various under storage systems and presents a global namespace to various computation frameworks. Xueyan Li and Yupeng Fu explore how Alluxio has led to performance improvements averaging a 300x improvement at service peak time on stream processing workloads at Qunar.
Webhooks for Automated Updates [B]

Webhooks for Automated Updates [B]

December 2, 2019

In most software projects, there is a tremendous focus on increasing efficiency and reliability. Rolling updates in Kubernetes is a really good example of how real-time updates to applications can be …