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Securing Serverless Functions via Kubernetes Objects

Securing Serverless Functions via Kubernetes Objects

November 19, 2019

Serverless is fast becoming a new application architecture paradigm. As glue code that links cloud services together it is tempting to forget about the security of functions being deployed. In this ta …
SIG API Machinery Deep Dive

SIG API Machinery Deep Dive

November 19, 2019

SIG API Machinery is responsible for all generic API topics in Kubernetes, i.e. for the generic API server implementation, API CRUD semantics, discovery,the admission control mechanism, conversion, d …
Using ML to improve UX and literacy for young poets

Using ML to improve UX and literacy for young poets

November 19, 2019

Power Poetry is the largest online platform for young poets, with over 350K users. Ann Nguyen explains how Power Poetry is extending the learning potential with machine learning and covers the technical elements of the Poetry Genome, a series of ML tools to analyze and break down similarity scores of the poems added to the site.
Apache Kafka + Apache Mesos = Highly scalable streaming microservices

Apache Kafka + Apache Mesos = Highly scalable streaming microservices

November 18, 2019

Kai Whner shares a highly scalable, mission-critical infrastructure using Apache Kafka and Apache Mesos: Kafka brokers are used as the distributed messaging backbone; Kafkas Streams API embeds stream processing into any external application without the need for a dedicated streaming cluster; and Mesos is used as a scalable infrastructure to leverage the benefits of a cloud-native platform.
API security in a microservice architecture

API security in a microservice architecture

November 18, 2019

Microservices have taken the software architecture world by storm. Initially driven by a desire for increased delivery velocity and greater scalability, organizations are now recognizing the importance and complexity of securing their microservices. Matt McLarty shares techniques for securing microservice APIs and a practical model you can implement in your organization.
Federated Prometheus Monitoring at Scale

Federated Prometheus Monitoring at Scale

November 18, 2019

In Media Build and Products under Oath, We run 12 production Kubernetes clusters running across our data centers with ~1200 machines with multi-tenant deployments. We monitor our cluster with Promethe …
kops Intro

kops Intro

November 18, 2019

kops is an easy tool for installation and management of kubernetes, on AWS and GCE (with lots more clouds being contributed by the community!) Come discover what kops does and a bit about how it work …
Serving ML Models at Scale with Seldon and Kubeflow

Serving ML Models at Scale with Seldon and Kubeflow

November 18, 2019

Open source machine learning tools to manipulate and store big data and apply complex algorithms to this data have matured greatly in recent years. However, the final step in any successful machine …
Building a Fault-Tolerant Custom Resources Controller on Kubernetes

Building a Fault-Tolerant Custom Resources Controller on Kubernetes

November 16, 2019

CRD (custom resource definition) is widely used to extend the behavior of Kubernetes. As all other kubernetes resource have controllers, so do CRDs. It is important that the custom resources are mana …
Designing a resource model for a public API

Designing a resource model for a public API

November 16, 2019

A public API is a new type of service that extends the business model beyond traditional boundaries. Tom Hofte and Marco van der Linden walk you through designing a resource model for a public API. You'll then work in teams to design an API for a fictional case study.
Edge PaaS: A Netflix case study about edge service architecture

Edge PaaS: A Netflix case study about edge service architecture

November 16, 2019

How do feature teams (device teams, UI, etc.) connect efficiently to backend services in a microservices architecture? How do you create an edge API that satisfies teams with vastly different requirements? And how do you operate these mission-critical edge services? Paul Bakker discusses these challenges and offers an overview of Netflix's PaaS built specifically for edge services.
Extending the Kubernetes API (sponsored by Google Cloud)

Extending the Kubernetes API (sponsored by Google Cloud)

November 16, 2019

Jago Macleod shares recent work that allows users to extend the Kubernetes API with custom resources and controllers and leverage this pattern. Its growing popularity in Kubernetes and other projects in the space suggests you will see more of it in the future.
From monolith to microservices: An architectural strategy (sponsored by CAST Software)

From monolith to microservices: An architectural strategy (sponsored by CAST Software)

November 16, 2019

Philippe Guerin demonstrates how to transform a monolithic application into a microservices application while tracking the change of the transformation and balancing the loss of performance or stability of your application with the introduction of the new layers.
Mostly serverless

Mostly serverless

November 14, 2019

Even EC2 has serverless attributes, and you can leverage them to realize the benefits of serverless in your classic enterprise cloud architectures. John Chapin shares the true story of an enterprise IT organization for which a potent combination of mostly serverless technology and a DevOps mindset have laid the groundwork for a future serverless transformation.
Rebuilding the New York Times crossword with Google Cloud (sponsored by Google Cloud)

Rebuilding the New York Times crossword with Google Cloud (sponsored by Google Cloud)

November 14, 2019

Over the course of 2017, the API traffic of the New York Times crossword tripled. At the same time, a very small team of engineers managed to migrate its platform from a PHP monolith on Amazon Web Services to a suite of Go microservices on Google Cloud Platform. JP Robinson explains how his team was able to make the migration with zero downtime while cutting infrastructure costs in half.
Why Netflix built an evolutionary architecture

Why Netflix built an evolutionary architecture

November 13, 2019

As Netflix continues its journey beyond 100M members, the company is rearchitecting its critical Playback API service to better serve its business needs for the next three to five years. Suudhan Rangarajan discusses why and how Netflix rebuilt the Playback API service and outlines a rigorous framework that you can use to reason about your microservice architecture.
Using Hyperledger Fabric to Secure High Value Asset Documents

Using Hyperledger Fabric to Secure High Value Asset Documents

November 12, 2019

BlocLedger integrates with market leading document centric solutions to track, authenticate, manage and securitize e-signed documents. BlocLedgers API enables an easy on ramp for digital transaction …
Code Faster with Concerto, Model-driven Blockchain Development

Code Faster with Concerto, Model-driven Blockchain Development

November 9, 2019

Is the business logic in your chaincode hard to find because it is buried in code that is doing boilerplate JSON serialization and data validation? Are you developing REST APIs by hand for your domain …
Findings While Grafting Blockchain to Existing Enterprise Platform

Findings While Grafting Blockchain to Existing Enterprise Platform

November 9, 2019

Real-world, empirical data/results will be the focus in the following areas: 1) Lessons learned during Integration of blockchain and existing Loyalty Platform 2) Strategy for authenticating the partic …