With ever-increasing demands for fast business change, how can we ensure our digital channels reflect the exacting standards of performance our customers (and business owners) expect? What does this look like in an age of DevOps and continuous delivery? Thomas Barns and John Pillar share a strategy for shifting left and automating performance analysis.

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 …

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 …

Linux radix tree is a mechanism by which a (pointer) value can be associated with a (long) integer key efficiently in terms of storage, and lookups. Additional features driven by kernel-specific needs …

Vulnerability lifecycle management without automation is a huge burden. You have to constantly watch out for any new vulnerabilities and keep a manual inventory of installed software to determine whic …

Software performance and scalability is critical to the success of an enterprise software and a great amount of effort and resources are spent in testing the performance and scalability for various us …

Having open source tooling that can generate SPDX documents is an important first step in automating detection and summarizing of the license compliance information found in source or binary code. How …

Speed and reliability in deploying big data clusters is key for effectiveness in the cloud. Drawing on ideas from his book Moving Hadoop to the Cloud, which covers essential practices like baking images and automating cluster configuration, Bill Havanki explains how you can automate the creation of new clusters from scratch and use metrics gathered using the cloud provider to scale up.

From upstreams through the supply chain to consumer products, open source sharing of code has enabled an unprecedented rate of innovation and new products. Complying with the respective open source li …

The speed with which automation technologies are emerging today and the extent to which they could disrupt the world of work are largely without precedent. How big could the impact be on the world of work, and how rapidly will it be felt? Katy George explores these questions, drawing on a major new report from the McKinsey Global Institute.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As a large enterprise organization with legacy infrastructure, we were interested in adopting Kubernetes in our internal Platform as a Service in the public cloud. However, we faced several challenges …

In the era of Infrastructure as Code we strive to automate everything, this talk will discuss our experiences in automating the deployment of building of continuous delivery pipelines and solving test …

Container orchestration has simplified application deployment with common tools across infrastructure providers, but tools for the environment running a container orchestration system tend to be more deeply coupled to cloud providers. Bill Farner and David Chung offer an overview of InfraKit, which provides tools for infrastructure automation of self-healing, self-managing systems.