microservice

Full Stack Visibility with Elastic: Logs, Metrics and Traces

December 13, 2019

"With microservices every outage is like a murder mystery" is a common complaint. But it doesn't have to be! This talk gives an overview on how to monitor distributed applications. We dive into: Syst …

Software-defined culture

December 13, 2019

Conway's law tells us that "organizations which design systems. . .are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." What if we turn Conway's law around? Timothy Gross explores how to make technology choices that improve the culture of your organization.

Would You Like Some Tracing With Your Monitoring?

December 13, 2019

Understanding how your microservices based application is executing in a highly distributed and elastic cloud environment can be complicated. Distributed tracing has emerged as an invaluable technique …

Bottoms-Up Adoption of a Microservices Workflow Using Kubernetes & Envoy

December 12, 2019

Many organizations start their microservices journey by (re)designing their application architecture and operational infrastructure. We started building our cloud application using this approach. We d …

Distributed Workflows for Microservices-Style Applications [I] - Yun Qin, Nirmata

December 12, 2019

Microservices-style architectures solve several problems but also introduce new complexities. With Microservices, a best practice is to keep services isolated and loosely coupled. However, in the real …

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 Mechanics of Deploying Envoy at Lyft

December 12, 2019

The idea of the "service mesh" is becoming very popular in microservice design circles. However, the mechanics of deploying one into an existing infrastructure are far from simple. In this talk we wil …

WG Container Identity Update

December 12, 2019

Decomposing applications into containers and microservices has many advantages but it creates a foundational problem: we need a reliable and secure way to identify all of the pieces. Kubernetes runs y …

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 …

Building the culture and collaboration layer for DevOps (sponsored by Atlassian)

December 10, 2019

While most conversations around DevOps revolve around tool X or tool Y or the automation of X and Y, the reality is that DevOps requires high-performing people and teams. Sean Regan runs a brief DevOps Health Monitor live on stage and shares the other 26 team playbooks that emerged from Atlassian's Agile, DevOps, and microservices journey.

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 …

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

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 …

State of Serverless [B]

December 9, 2019

Serverless and FaaS computing is gaining in popularity to easily create microservice applications. In this talk we will discuss what are the characteristics of serverless, the status of the serverless …

Of monoliths and microservices: Adventures in structuring a web app

December 8, 2019

The US Digital Service is building a suite of tools to replace a large legacy application at the Department of Veteran Affairs. Knowing the complexity of the end state and enamored with microservices, the team was much too aggressive in breaking up the product. Shane Russell reflects on this experience, sharing advice and lessons learned on how and when to break up your web app.

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 …

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

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 …

Deploy Spark ML TensorFlow AI models from notebooks to hybrid clouds (including GPUs)

December 4, 2019

Chris Fregly explores an often-overlooked area of machine learning and artificial intelligencethe real-time, end-user-facing "serving layer in hybrid-cloud and on-premises deployment environmentsand shares a production-ready environment to serve your notebook-based Spark ML and TensorFlow AI models with highly scalable and highly available robustness.

Moving from Mesos to Kubernetes Without Anyone Noticing [I]

December 3, 2019

At Hootsuite, weve been using Mesos and Marathon as our microservices platform for over two years but last year, we made the decision to bet on Kubernetes as its replacement. Eight months later, a sm …

Identifying and exploiting the keys to digital transformation

December 2, 2019

Leading companies are integrating operations and analytics to make real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. There are many aspects to digital transformation, but the timely delivery of actionable data is both a key enabler and an obstacle. Jack Norris explores how companies from Altitude Digital to Uber are transforming their businesses.

IoK: Istio-on-Kubernetes Deep Dive [I]

December 2, 2019

Running microservices at scale is not easy. Istio is an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. Did I mention that Istio runs on Kubernetes? During the talk I will cover the follow …

Istio: Sailing to a Secure Services Mesh [I]

December 2, 2019

Istio is an open platform that provides a uniform way to connect, manage, and secure microservices. In this presentation we describe the security features of the Istio service mesh: how it helps you s …

Kubernetes in the Datacenter: Squarespaces Journey Towards Self-Service Infrastructure [I]

December 2, 2019

As Squarespaces engineering organization evolved, microservices became an obvious solution to quickly deliver new features and improve infrastructure reliability. We encountered significant challenge …

Rethinking stream processing with Apache Kafka: Applications versus clusters and streams versus databases

November 30, 2019

Michael Noll explains how Apache Kafka helps you radically simplify your data processing architectures by building normal applications to serve your real-time processing needs rather than building clusters or similar special-purpose infrastructurewhile still benefiting from properties typically associated exclusively with cluster technologies.

Setting Sail with Istio [B]

November 30, 2019

Even with Kubernetes, doing microservices is hard. In this session we will dive into Istio, A platform that builds on Kubernetes primitives and simplifies building and securing microservices. This ses …

Using Kubernetes to Change Legacy Systems and Processes in the Public Sector [B]

November 30, 2019

Kubernetes is the implementation of the modern software development process. Continuous Release and you built it, you run it. For the last few years I have been working on introducing kubernetes int …

From Monolith to Microservices with Kubernetes and Linkerd

November 29, 2019

After about eight years, Credit Karma had built up an impressive tech infrastructure…based on a PHP monolith. Over the past 18 months weve (carefully) adopted Docker, Linkerd, Consul, Kubernetes, a …