cloud native

Doing DropBox the Cloud Native Way

January 23, 2020

Cloud Native architecture has slowly become the default way to build robust, scalable applications. How would you rebuild a large scale storage service such as Dropbox (please note Dropbox is just an …

High performance Microservices on Linux with Apache Thrift

January 21, 2020

The world is rapidly adopting cloud native approaches to software development, reaping the synergies produced by combining microservices, Linux container technology and dynamic application orchestrati …

Cloud native: Security threat or opportunity?

January 20, 2020

Your organization wants to go cloud native, but you don't want to hit the headlines as the victim of the latest hacking scandal. Liz Rice addresses the questions you need answers to: Will your deployments be less secure or more? How do DevOps processes like CI/CD and cluster orchestration affect your security profile? And what can we all do to minimize the risk of exploits?

What You Should Know about Etcd v3

January 13, 2020

Description With Kubernetes 1.6, etcd v3 becomes the preferred storage backbone of every Kubernetes cluster. Do you know whats changed? How to recover from failures? This talk is a look at whats new …

OpenSDS: Storage Challenges in a Cloud Native Era

January 12, 2020

Cloud-native adoption is disrupting the traditional enterprise data center landscape forcing traditional hardware vendors to rethink their strategies in a software-defined era to better address the st …

Providing Services to Cloud Native Platforms with the Open Service Broker API

January 11, 2020

In a digital world, widely adopted and easy to use APIs are the cornerstone of collaboration and interoperability. As Cloud technologies mature and become commonplace, the absence of standards surface …

Migrating Legacy Monoliths to Cloud Native Microservices Architectures on Kubernetes

January 7, 2020

Cloud Native architectures, such as those built on Kubernetes, are envied for their ability to segment different parts of an application into microservices that can separately be containerized, so tha …

Monitoring in the time of cloud native

January 6, 2020

As the systems we build become more distributed and (in the case of containerization) ephemeral, traditional monitoring tools prove to be grossly insufficient. Fortunately, the state of monitoring has evolved to meet these new demands, but it brings its own set of technical and organizational challenges. Cindy Sridharan offers an honest overview of monitoring challenges and trade-offs.

From notebooks to cloud native: A modern path for data-driven applications

January 3, 2020

Notebook interfaces like Apache Zeppelin and Project Jupyter are excellent starting points for sketching out ideas and exploring data-driven algorithms, but where does the process lead after the notebook work has been completed? Michael McCune offers some answers as they relate to cloud-native platforms.

Who Needs Network Management in a Cloud Native Environment?

January 3, 2020

Network management (and virtual network in particular) is hard. Cloud app developers find themselves dealing with too many options and too many settings, which make no sense. This is because Cloud API …

High Performance Microservices on Linux with Apache Thrift

December 31, 2019

OpenSDS and Storage Transformation for Cloudification at Vodafone

December 30, 2019

OpenSDS is an open-source project created to address the storage challenges, particularly in scale-out cloud native environments, with heterogeneous storage platforms. The project promotes the use of …

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

December 12, 2019

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Migrating Hundreds of Legacy Applications to Kubernetes [B]

December 10, 2019

Running applications on Kubernetes can provide a lot of benefits: more dev speed, lower ops costs, and a higher elasticity & resiliency in production. Kubernetes is the place to be for cloud native ap …

Embracing Cloud Native at a Thriving, Established Company

December 9, 2019

We are in the midst of a major shift at MailChimp. In many ways, we are a microcosm of the industry as a whole: moving from large monoliths to microservices and trying to figure out what that even mea …

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 …

The Elements of Kubernetes - Foundational Concepts for Apps Running on Kubernetes [I]

December 6, 2019

The Elements of Style is one of the most important and foundational guidelines on how to write well. It has effectively summarized, in a list of seminal guidelines, how to harness the power of the E …

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 …

Modern Big Data Pipelines over Kubernetes [I]

December 3, 2019

Big data used to be synonymous with Hadoop, but our ecosystem has evolved over time with new database, streaming and machine learning solutions which dont necessarily benefit from the Hadoop deployme …

Economics of using Local Storage Attached to VMs on Cloud Providers [I]

November 29, 2019

Public cloud storage resource offerings aren't always optimal to run Cloud Native applications. This talk explores several storage options comparing costs, performance, resilience, features and interf …

Persistent Storage with Kubernetes in Production - Which Solution and Why? [I]

November 29, 2019

Persistent storage often seems like a confusing plethora of options, from local volumes, NFS, distributed storage like Ceph, cloud storage such as AWSs EBS and S3, to volume plugins with Docker and K …

Keynote: Prometheus: From Berlin to Bonanza

November 27, 2019

From its humble beginnings right here in Berlin in 2012, the Prometheus monitoring system has grown a substantial community with a comprehensive set of integrations. This talk will go over the core id …

Lightning Talk: Cloud Native Design Patterns

November 27, 2019

The way we design, develop and run applications on Cloud Native platforms differ significantly from other platforms. When working with Kubernetes, there are less concerns for developers to think about …

Keynote: What is Cloud Native and Why Should I Care?

November 25, 2019

Will provide overview of CNCF plans and accomplishments to date. …

Case Study Conrad Electronic From a Static Infrastructure to Continuous Delivery and the Cloud in One Step [B]

November 24, 2019

For many years, the absence of scalable QA environments has been a bottleneck within the development flow at Conrad Electronic with major impact on overall speed and efficiency of the production lif …