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Embracing Cloud Native at a Thriving, Established Company

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 …
Keynote: Pushing the Limits of Kubernetes with Game of Thrones

Keynote: Pushing the Limits of Kubernetes with Game of Thrones

December 9, 2019

Do you want to know what it is like to run 15,000 pods in production? Are you interested in seeing how Kubernetes stands up to the record-breaking viewership and a login rate that is beyond belief on …
Kubernetes Deconstructed: Understanding Kubernetes by Breaking It Down [I]

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

December 9, 2019

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 …
Kubernetes on AWS: Practices & Opinions [I]

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

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 …
Preventing Attacks at Scale [I]

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

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

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 …
A practitioners guide to securing your Hadoop cluster

A practitioners guide to securing your Hadoop cluster

December 6, 2019

Mark Donsky, Andr Araujo, Syed Rafice, and Mubashir Kazia walk you through securing a Hadoop cluster. Youll start with a cluster with no security and then add security features related to authentication, authorization, encryption of data at rest, encryption of data in transit, and complete data governance.
Automating and Testing Production Ready Kubernetes Clusters in the Public Cloud

Automating and Testing Production Ready Kubernetes Clusters in the Public Cloud

December 6, 2019

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 …
client-go: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

client-go: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

December 6, 2019

This talk will focus on client-go, a go client for talking to Kubernetes clusters. At Kinvolk we have used client-go in various Kubernetes projects. Lili will share the general use-case of client-go a …
Kuberneters in Hybrid Environments Using Cloud Interconnect [A]

Kuberneters in Hybrid Environments Using Cloud Interconnect [A]

December 6, 2019

Solutions to enable customers to apply consistent traffic management and security policies regardless of whether their applications are running on-premises, in a Public Cloud or in a managed Kubernete …
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 …
Accelerate analytics and AI innovations with Intel (sponsored by Intel)

Accelerate analytics and AI innovations with Intel (sponsored by Intel)

December 5, 2019

Ziya Ma outlines the challenges for applying machine learning and deep learning at scale and shares solutions that Intel has enabled for customers and partners.
Big data computations: Comparing Apache HAWQ, Druid, and GPU databases

Big data computations: Comparing Apache HAWQ, Druid, and GPU databases

December 5, 2019

The class of big data computations known as distributed merge trees was built to aggregate user information across multiple data sources in the media domain. Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran explores prototypes built on top of Apache HAWQ, Druid, and Kinetica, one of the open source GPU databases. Results show that Kinetica on a single G2.8x node outperformed clusters of HAWQ and Druid nodes.
Load Testing Kubernetes: How to Optimize Your Cluster Resource Allocation in Production

Load Testing Kubernetes: How to Optimize Your Cluster Resource Allocation in Production

December 5, 2019

So you've carefully crafted your first Kubernetes service, and you're ready to deploy it to production. Well, not quite: there are still some important unknowns to understand before your service will …
Running MySQL on Kubernetes [I]

Running MySQL on Kubernetes [I]

December 5, 2019

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database and there are a number of ways to run it on Kubernetes. This talk will cover each type of MySQL deployment strategy starting from a simple MySQL …
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 …
101 Ways to Crash Your Cluster [I]

101 Ways to Crash Your Cluster [I]

December 4, 2019

Running a kubernetes cluster requires operating many components. One must be good at running and scaling etcd, multiple control plane components, a monitoring system, a logging pipeline, Docker, rkt, …
Accelerating Humanitarian Relief with Kubernetes [I]

Accelerating Humanitarian Relief with Kubernetes [I]

December 4, 2019

How can UN humanitarian aid field experts use social media to gain insight, understand trends and track key humanitarian issues? Through a collaboration with Microsoft and UN OCHA, Project Fortis was …
Building deep learning-powered big data

Building deep learning-powered big data

December 4, 2019

Radhika Rangarajan explains how Intel works with its users to build deep learning-powered big data analytics applications (object detection, image recognition, NLP, etc.) using BigDL.
kubeadm Cluster Creation Internals: From Self-Hosting to Upgradability and HA [A]

kubeadm Cluster Creation Internals: From Self-Hosting to Upgradability and HA [A]

December 4, 2019

kubeadm is the Kubernetes tool that helps you set up a Kubernetes cluster quickly and easily. kubeadm is different from other Kubernetes setup tools in that it doesnt assume or depend on any special …
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 …
A Scheduling Simulator for Capacity Estimation of Kubernetes Clusters

A Scheduling Simulator for Capacity Estimation of Kubernetes Clusters

December 3, 2019

Capacity planning is very important for meeting dynamic demands in any clusters. Without having an approximate view of the remaining capacity in a cluster, it is hard for cluster operators to decide i …
Hadoop and object stores: Can we do it better?

Hadoop and object stores: Can we do it better?

December 3, 2019

Trent Gray-Donald and Gil Vernik explain the challenges of current Hadoop and Apache Spark integration with object stores and discuss Stocator, an open source object store connector that overcomes these shortcomings by leveraging object store semantics. Compared to native Hadoop connectors, Stocator provides close to a 100% speedup for DFSIO on Hadoop and a 500% speedup for Terasort on Spark.
Hadoop as a service: How to build and operate an enterprise data lake supporting operational and streaming analytics

Hadoop as a service: How to build and operate an enterprise data lake supporting operational and streaming analytics

December 3, 2019

If you have Hadoop clusters in research or an early-stage data lake and are considering strategic vision and goals, this session is for you. Phillip Radley explains how to run Hadoop as a shared service, providing an enterprise-wide data platform hosting hundreds of projects securely and predictably.