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Blockchain for Dummies Using the Open Service Broker API

Blockchain for Dummies Using the Open Service Broker API

February 12, 2020

Are you a developer of a cloud native application and unfamiliar with blockchain? Come learn how to use an Open Service Broker API deployed service instance to connect your app with a blockchain netwo …
Building resilient serverless systems

Building resilient serverless systems

February 12, 2020

John Chapin explains howin this brave new world of managed services and platformsyou can use serverless technologies and an infrastructure-as-code mindset to architect, build, and operate resilient systems that survive even massive vendor outages.
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) prep + exam

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) prep + exam

February 12, 2020

Can you develop and maintain applications using Kubernetes? Thats the question more employers are asking these days. Take the next step in your career by becoming a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer. You get a full day of test prep from OReillys top Kubernetes trainer and the opportunity to take the exam onsite, leaving an official Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.
Lightning Talk: Global Traceroute

Lightning Talk: Global Traceroute

February 12, 2020

Global Traceroute (https://www.globaltraceroute.com) is a front-end to do traceroutes from RIPE Atlas probes, which means you can now do quick and easy traceroutes …
Protect Your Kubernetes Data, Friends Dont Let Friends Leave their Kubernetes Data Unprotected

Protect Your Kubernetes Data, Friends Dont Let Friends Leave their Kubernetes Data Unprotected

February 12, 2020

In recent headlines, there are increasing news about cloud resources getting hacked caused by attacks on Kubernetes clusters with unsecured etcd servers ending in massive amounts of password and keys …
A DevOps State of Mind: Continuous Security with DevSecOps + Containers

A DevOps State of Mind: Continuous Security with DevSecOps + Containers

February 11, 2020

With the rise of DevOps, containers are at the brink of becoming a pervasive technology in Enterprise IT to accelerate application delivery for the business. When it comes to adopting containers in th …
A Major Overhaul of the APIC Initialization and Vector Allocation in Linux Kernel

A Major Overhaul of the APIC Initialization and Vector Allocation in Linux Kernel

February 11, 2020

Interrupt is one of the important mechanisms of the Linux kernel, vector and APIC tell the kernel how to operate the interrupt. With the development of the kernel, the old code led to many problems, s …
Consuming Cloud Services with the Kubernetes Service Catalog

Consuming Cloud Services with the Kubernetes Service Catalog

February 9, 2020

In a cloud native world, managed services such as database, storage, and event processing systems can be utilized without the overhead of total service ownership. Kubernetes provides an extension mech …
What changes when we go offline first?

What changes when we go offline first?

February 9, 2020

We all know how to build web apps around a central server. Increasingly, we want to develop apps in which the user can still get work done while offline and that sync their data the next time an internet connection is available. Martin Kleppmann shares recent computer science research that is helping develop the abstractions and APIs for the next generation of applications.
Writing a Kubernetes operator to deploy a complex system

Writing a Kubernetes operator to deploy a complex system

February 9, 2020

The Kubernetes API is extensible, allowing you to create your own resources that behave like native ones. Philippe Martin explores the tools, concepts, and a real example of a custom resource that simplifies the deployment of a complete content delivery network (CDN).
The Single Source of Truth for Network Automation

The Single Source of Truth for Network Automation

February 8, 2020

How a single source of truth, expressed as an elegant data model, can operate an Internet business' process and network automation. Many automation presentations t …
Athenz: The Open-Source Solution to Provide Access Control in Dynamic Infrastructures

Athenz: The Open-Source Solution to Provide Access Control in Dynamic Infrastructures

February 7, 2020

Most Cloud computing environments are based on self-service thus authorization configuration is frequent and dynamic.Furthermore, in Microservices architecture, each service communicates via Web APIs …
Mapping a domain model to a RESTful web API

Mapping a domain model to a RESTful web API

February 6, 2020

A web API is a channel into your business domain. Because of its simplicity, REST is the de facto standard for developing web APIs, but translating complex domain behavior to simple REST concepts is typically not straightforward. Tom Hofte and Marco van der Linden explore RESTful resource modeling and share practical solutions to bridge the gap between a domain model and a RESTful API.
OTA-On-Demand (OOD) Services with AGL

OTA-On-Demand (OOD) Services with AGL

February 6, 2020

The automotive industry demands better in-car services for their customers and to keep software security up do date over a long product life-cycle. Because there have been security accidents reported …
Securing APIs in a microservice architecture

Securing APIs in a microservice architecture

February 6, 2020

Microservices have quickly become a popular way to develop software systems. But as organizations implement production systems based on microservices, they are recognizing the importance and complexity of securing microservices. Rob Wilson shares techniques for securing microservice APIs and details a practical multiplatform model that you can use for securing your own microservice environments.
Network Operational Simplicity via Zero Touch Deployment (ZTD)

Network Operational Simplicity via Zero Touch Deployment (ZTD)

February 4, 2020

Zero Touch Deployment (ZTD) brings network automation and operational simplicity in the network infrastructure. It reduces operational cost by reducing human error …
Machine learning at scale with Kubernetes

Machine learning at scale with Kubernetes

February 3, 2020

Christopher Cho details how to leverage Kubernetes and the mighty Kubernetes APIs to build a complete deep learning pipeline, from data ingestion and aggregation to preprocessing and ML training to serving. Along the way, Christopher covers Kubeflow, a Google open source solution for managing machine learning with TensorFlow in a portable, scalable manner.
Accelerating I/O in Big Data A Data Driven Approach and Case Studies

Accelerating I/O in Big Data A Data Driven Approach and Case Studies

February 1, 2020

The I/O infrastructure is key to Big Data ecosystem. New networking and storage hardware technologies are continuously being developed while software I/O stack remains relatively slow. In order to ens …
Consuming cloud services with the Kubernetes Service Catalog

Consuming cloud services with the Kubernetes Service Catalog

February 1, 2020

Neil Peterson leads a technical deep dive into using the Kubernetes Service Catalog to dynamically provision and consume managed cloud services.
Lightning Talk: The API is the new CLI?

Lightning Talk: The API is the new CLI?

February 1, 2020

https://chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2017/api-new-cli-fact-fiction/ …
Building a Fault-Tolerant Custom Resources Controller on Kubernetes

Building a Fault-Tolerant Custom Resources Controller on Kubernetes

January 31, 2020

CRD (custom resource definition) is widely used to extend the behavior of Kubernetes. As all other kubernetes resources have controllers, so do CRDs. It is important that the custom resources are mana …
Bring Your Camera into 2018: Forward Porting Image Sensor Drivers

Bring Your Camera into 2018: Forward Porting Image Sensor Drivers

January 30, 2020

The Linux media community tried in the past to ease the work of camera driver developers by providing frameworks and methods to abstract away from the crude V4L2 APIs. Some of those frameworks, as the …
Serverless APIs with AWS Lambda and API Gateway

Serverless APIs with AWS Lambda and API Gateway

January 29, 2020

Serverless architectures remove load from web servers and scale flawlessly to handle any volume while keeping you from paying for an instant of wasted idle time. Bill Boulden walks you through creating a functioning serverless API that coexists alongside conventionally served web pages using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
Smart networking with service meshes

Smart networking with service meshes

January 29, 2020

Over the past year, service meshes have gained significant interest. Most service meshes have two components: a control plane and a data plane. Anubhav Mishra explains what it takes to build a scalable control and data plane. Anubhav also discusses how HashiCorp Consul provides many features like a distributed key-value store and service discovery that make it ideal for a control plane.
A high-performance system for deep learning inference and visual inspection

A high-performance system for deep learning inference and visual inspection

January 27, 2020

Moty Fania and Sergei Kom share their experience and lessons learned implementing an AI inference platform to enable internal visual inspection use cases. The platform is based on open source technologies and was designed for real-time, streaming, and online actuation.
Linux and Zephyr Talking to Each Other in the Same SoC

Linux and Zephyr Talking to Each Other in the Same SoC

January 27, 2020

SoC vendors are launching Hybrid Multiprocessors (HMP) architectures where one or more cores deal with the end-user application and other cores implement specific features. Instead of battling with Li …
Bighead: Airbnb's end-to-end machine learning platform

Bighead: Airbnb's end-to-end machine learning platform

January 26, 2020

Atul Kale and Xiaohan Zeng offer an overview of Bighead, Airbnb's user-friendly and scalable end-to-end machine learning framework that powers Airbnb's data-driven products. Built on Python, Spark, and Kubernetes, Bighead integrates popular libraries like TensorFlow, XGBoost, and PyTorch and is designed be used in modular pieces.
Data discovery and lineage: Integrating streaming data in the public cloud with on-prem, classic data stores, and heterogeneous schema types

Data discovery and lineage: Integrating streaming data in the public cloud with on-prem, classic data stores, and heterogeneous schema types

January 25, 2020

Comcasts streaming data platform comprises ingest, transformation, and storage services in the public cloud, with Apache Atlas for data discovery and lineage. Barbara Eckman explains how Comcast recently integrated on-prem data sources, including traditional data warehouses and RDBMSs, which required its data governance strategy to include relational and JSON schemas in addition to Apache Avro.