In this lightning talk, we provide an update on progress toward the vision of the automated, multi-vendor network management stack. We will focus on a set of freel …

In a monolith, authorization is easy. In a microservices world, you have to make hard choices about your data model and the abstractions on top of which authorization rules are built. Wilfried Schobeiri and Kasey Klipsch share an approach to implementing distributed authorization in a microservices context, covering fallacies, common pitfalls, and best practices along the way.

To date, mutable big data storage has primarily been the domain of nonrelational (NoSQL) systems such as Apache HBase. However, demand for real-time analytic architectures has led big data back to a familiar friend: relationally structured data storage systems. Todd Lipcon explores the advantages of relational storage and reviews new developments, including Google Cloud Spanner and Apache Kudu.

Apache Kylin, which started as a big data OLAP engine, is reaching its v2.0. Yang Li explains how, armed with snowflake schema support, a full SQL interface, spark cubing, and the ability to consume real-time streaming data, Apache Kylin is closing the gap to becoming a real-time data warehouse.

Cesar Berho and Alan Ross offer an overview of open source project Apache Spot (incubating), which delivers next-generation cybersecurity analytics architecture through unsupervised learning using machine-learning techniques at cloud scale for anomaly detection.