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Getting started with OpenConfig

Getting started with OpenConfig

January 22, 2020

This session provides a practical introduction to vendor neutral operations using OpenConfig. It provides an overview of model design principles and a close look …
Model Driven APIs for the Network infrastructure Layer

Model Driven APIs for the Network infrastructure Layer

January 22, 2020

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing amount of interest in the industry (Service APIs (NPF), I2RS (IETF) etc.) to create a standardized API at the ne …
Segment Routing IPv6 The Network as A Computer and deployment use-cases with Comcast

Segment Routing IPv6 The Network as A Computer and deployment use-cases with Comcast

January 22, 2020

Segment Routing (SR) is an architecture based on the source routing paradigm that seeks the right balance between distributed (network-wide) intelligence and centr …
Advanced Document Similarity with Apache Lucene

Advanced Document Similarity with Apache Lucene

January 21, 2020

Being your core domain involving real world entities ( such as hotels, restaurant, cars …) or text documents, searching for similar entities, given one in input, is a very common use case for most o …
And now for something Vary different

And now for something Vary different

January 21, 2020

Most people working with CDN caches know about the Vary header, but few properly understand what it really does. And with the advent of the Key header, new patterns for varying cache content will emerge. Andrew Betts shares common and advanced use cases for Vary, such as language, A/B testing, compression, and service worker support, and outlines potential changes to consider when Key arrives.
Security + design * data science: A bot story

Security + design * data science: A bot story

January 21, 2020

The security industry continues to struggle with alert fatigue as the talent shortage grows. Security has yet to fully embrace the power of UX to help security workers do more with less. Bobby Filar and Rich Seymour explain how they developed a chatbot, combining machine learning within an intuitive UI to expedite data search and discovery and enhance detection and response to security threats.
When BGP meets Big-data

When BGP meets Big-data

January 20, 2020

The Internet is very much alive, with millions of BGP events occurring every day. BGP monitoring and reporting tools have been in use for many years now and are …
Automating Access Control Lists with OpenDaylight and OpenVSwitch

Automating Access Control Lists with OpenDaylight and OpenVSwitch

January 19, 2020

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 …
Failover early: When to failover at your CDN

Failover early: When to failover at your CDN

January 19, 2020

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Your risk mitigation strategy must layer the most cost-efficient strategies to effectively mitigate or reduce the adverse effects of failure. Manuel Alvarez explores using the CDN as a failover tool, reviewing use cases and demonstrating how to decide whether to use a CDN by evaluating costs, benefits, operations, and time to mitigate.
OpenContrail as SDN controller for NFV infrastructure in AT&T network.

OpenContrail as SDN controller for NFV infrastructure in AT&T network.

January 18, 2020

Open contrail is an open source SDN controller which natively integrates with openstack and ideally suitable for any Service provide who wants to virtualize networ …
Real-world consistency explained

Real-world consistency explained

January 17, 2020

Uwe Friedrichsen explores the challenges, options, and trade-offs of different consistency models in distributed system landscapes, covering the limitations of ACID transactions, eventual consistency, and current research that tries to fill the gaps between ACID and BASE transactions.
Containerd Internals: Building a Core Container Runtime

Containerd Internals: Building a Core Container Runtime

January 16, 2020

Containerd is the core container runtime used in Docker to execute containers and distribute images. It was designed from the ground up to support the OCI image and runtime specifications. The design …
GPU, USB, NICs and Other Physical Devices in Your Containers

GPU, USB, NICs and Other Physical Devices in Your Containers

January 16, 2020

The very definition of a container is that it's a set of processes, or in this case full operating system which is sharing the kernel with the host machine. This opens a full array of possibilities a …
Memory Bandwidth as a Service in the Context of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Memory Bandwidth as a Service in the Context of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

January 16, 2020

With expanding usage of Iaas (infrastructure as a service), it may be useful to add memory bandwidth(b/w) as a service. Memory b/w monitoring(MBM) and allocation(MBA) allow measuring and control of pe …
T-minus 3, 2, 1: Future-proofing production systems

T-minus 3, 2, 1: Future-proofing production systems

January 16, 2020

Kavya Joshi shares strategies to prepare systems for flux and scale. Drawing from a range of use cases, including Facebooks Kraken, which provides shadow traffic, and Samsara's custom load simulator, Kavya demonstrates how to improve your understanding of your systems as they run today and plan for how they'll run tomorrow.
MPLS Tutorial

MPLS Tutorial

January 15, 2020

MPLS Tutorial which seeks to dispel myths about MPLS by explaining MPLS concepts, showing use cases in provider networks, identifying MPLS features which can impro …
Architecturing and securing IoT platforms with microservices

Architecturing and securing IoT platforms with microservices

January 14, 2020

IoT device management and multiprotocol messaging platforms demand specific architectural decisions and high-concurrency approaches due to the massive number of expected devices. Drasko Draskovic and Janko Isidorovic share an architecture, implementation, and testing procedures needed to create an industry-grade IoT platform based on microservices and Docker containers.
Testing Software Performance and Scalability Using Containers

Testing Software Performance and Scalability Using Containers

January 13, 2020

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 …
Making the Kernel's Networking Data Path Programmable with BPF and XDP

Making the Kernel's Networking Data Path Programmable with BPF and XDP

January 12, 2020

BPF in Linux is gaining widespread attention as a framework for making the Linux kernel programmable, most notably in tracing, networking and security subsystems. This talk highlights the networking s …
The Many Approaches to Real-Time and Safety Critical Linux Systems

The Many Approaches to Real-Time and Safety Critical Linux Systems

January 12, 2020

Linux and Real-Time have become a widespread combination that is deployed in many industrial solutions. Real-Time requirements are often combined with safety requirements, and satisfying both is only …
Extending Custom Kubernetes Deployments with Operators

Extending Custom Kubernetes Deployments with Operators

January 11, 2020

Kubernetes is a system used to manage compute and app workloads using clusters of nodes. Clusters are capable of handling various types of use cases, but there are certain resources which may be vital …
Providing Services to Cloud Native Platforms with the Open Service Broker API

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 …
Rethinking microservices with stateful streams

Rethinking microservices with stateful streams

January 11, 2020

Ben Stopford looks at two forces that sit in opposition: data systems (which focus on exposing data) and services (which focus on encapsulating it). How should we balance these two? Streaming offers a solution.
Modular Overlay Networking Solutions with the Container Network Interface

Modular Overlay Networking Solutions with the Container Network Interface

January 10, 2020

The Container Network Interface (CNI) is becoming the de facto standard for implementing plugins for container runtimes, and is used by Mesos, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry. The same CNI standard make …
Genji: A framework for building resilient near-real-time data pipelines

Genji: A framework for building resilient near-real-time data pipelines

January 7, 2020

Pinterest has to support real-time decision making while operating on petabyte-scale data. Swaminathan Sundaramurthy and Mark Cho offer an overview of Pinterest's real-time data pipeline (modeled on quasi-Kappa architecture), its impact on the company's systems, and tools and processes used and demonstrate how Pinterest models real-time ads analytics on the platform.
A brave new world in mutable big data: Relational storage

A brave new world in mutable big data: Relational storage

January 6, 2020

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.
SMACK Stack and Beyond - Building Fast Data Pipelines

SMACK Stack and Beyond - Building Fast Data Pipelines

January 6, 2020

Our world seems to move faster and faster and so are our requirements for data analytics. For many use cases such as fraud detection or reacting on sensor data the response times of traditional batch …
An open source architecture for the IoT

An open source architecture for the IoT

January 5, 2020

Eclipse IoT is an ecosystem of organizations that are working together to establish an IoT architecture based on open source technologies and standards. Dave Shuman and James Kirkland showcase an end-to-end architecture for the IoT based on open source standards, highlighting Eclipse Kura, an open source stack for gateways and the edge, and Eclipse Kapua, an open source IoT cloud platform.