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DevOps for Networking

DevOps for Networking

December 28, 2019

To demonstrate the power of DevOps tool we have deployed a web-based ticket booking website using GIT, Ansible, Vagrant, Docker, Jenkins and Kubernetes.DevOps is a new methodology that combines devel …
Executive Briefing: Overview of data governance

Executive Briefing: Overview of data governance

December 25, 2019

Effective data governance is foundational for AI adoption in enterprise, but it's an almost overwhelming topic. Paco Nathan offers an overview of its history, themes, tools, process, standards, and more. Join in to learn what impact machine learning has on data governance and vice versa.
Faster ML over joins of tables

Faster ML over joins of tables

December 24, 2019

Arun Kumar details recent techniques to accelerate ML over data that is the output of joins of multiple tables. Using ideas from query optimization and learning theory, Arun demonstrates how to avoid joins before ML to reduce runtimes and memory and storage footprints. Along the way, he explores open source software prototypes and sample ML code in both R and Python.
Likewar: How social media is changing the worldand how the world is changing social media

Likewar: How social media is changing the worldand how the world is changing social media

December 23, 2019

Terrorists live-stream their attacks, Twitter wars sell music albums and produce real-world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles but the very fate of nations. The result is that war, tech, and politics have blurred into a new kind of battle space that plays out on our smartphones. P. W. Singer explains.
Managing data science in the enterprise

Managing data science in the enterprise

December 22, 2019

The honeymoon era of data science is ending, and accountability is coming. Successful data science leaders must deliver measurable impact on an increasing share of an enterprise's KPIs. Joshua Poduska, Kimberly Shenk, and Mac Steele explain how leading organizations take a holistic approach to people, process, and technology to build a sustainable competitive advantage.
Nutrition data science

Nutrition data science

December 22, 2019

Noah Gift and Michelle Davenport explore exciting ideas in nutrition using data science; specifically, they analyze the detrimental relationship between sugar and longevity, obesity, and chronic diseases.
Presto: Tuning performance of SQL-on-anything analytics

Presto: Tuning performance of SQL-on-anything analytics

December 22, 2019

Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski and Martin Traverso explore Presto's recently introduced cost-based optimizer, which must account for heterogeneous inputs with differing and often incomplete data statistics, and detail use cases for Presto across several industries. They also share recent Presto advancements, such as geospatial analytics at scale, and the project roadmap going forward.
The journey toward a self-service data platform at Netflix

The journey toward a self-service data platform at Netflix

December 20, 2019

The Netflix data platform is a massive-scale, cloud-only suite of tools and technologies. It includes big data tech (Spark and Flink), enabling services (federated metadata management), and machine learning support. But with power comes complexity. Kurt Brown explains how Netflix is working toward an easier, "self-service" data platform without sacrificing any enabling capabilities.
Distributed event-driven services: From the trenches

Distributed event-driven services: From the trenches

December 17, 2019

A few years ago, Barclays embarked on a journey to migrate its legacy services with the objective of achieving a high level of scale, resilience, and reliability, mainly employing an ecosystem of focused, distributed services. Prem Chandrasekaran recounts some of the challenges faced during the transformation and sheds light on the things that worked well and those that didn't.
Kubeflow: Multi-Tenant, Self-Serve, Accelerated Platform for Practitioners

Kubeflow: Multi-Tenant, Self-Serve, Accelerated Platform for Practitioners

December 4, 2019

The kubeflow platform provides a self-serve multi-tenant platform on k8s for ML developers. Users can train their models using accelerated hardware in an isolated environment. Jobs can be configured a …
Liberating Kubernetes From Kube-proxy and Iptables

Liberating Kubernetes From Kube-proxy and Iptables

December 4, 2019

iptables and Netfilter are the two foundational technologies of kube-proxy for implementing a Service abstraction. They carry legacy accumulated over 20 years of development grounded in a more traditi …
How to Include Latency in SLO-based Alerting

How to Include Latency in SLO-based Alerting

December 3, 2019

Chapter 5 of The Site Reliability Workbook is an excellent study of how to create meaningful alerts based on SLOs by measuring the rate at which the error budget is burned over different time window …
Tutorial: From Notebook to Kubeflow Pipelines: An End-to-End Data Science Workflow

Tutorial: From Notebook to Kubeflow Pipelines: An End-to-End Data Science Workflow

November 22, 2019

Please bring your laptop fully charged as we will have limited charging stations available in the room.This session targets data scientists and ML engineers who want to leverage Kubernetes to scale up …
Lightning Talk: Using Jupyter Notebooks To Gain Insight Of Your Cluster

Lightning Talk: Using Jupyter Notebooks To Gain Insight Of Your Cluster

November 18, 2019

For the last 7 years or so Jupyter Notebooks (formerly known as IPython) has revolutionized the way scholars, enthusiasts and data analysts look at, process and work with data. On the Kubernetes side, …
Lightning Talk: How to Regain the Trust of Your Users

Lightning Talk: How to Regain the Trust of Your Users

November 16, 2019

Regaining the trust of your users is a hard task to accomplish. The secret is to know your infrastructure better and show that to your users. In this talk Eduard will show the approach Booking.com too …
Tutorial: Introduction to Kubeflow Pipelines

Tutorial: Introduction to Kubeflow Pipelines

November 11, 2019

In this session, you will learn how to install and use Kubeflow Pipelines to create a full machine learning application on Kubernetes.Starting with an empty environment, you will create a Kubernetes c …
Keynote: Reperforming a Nobel Prize Discovery on Kubernetes

Keynote: Reperforming a Nobel Prize Discovery on Kubernetes

November 8, 2019

Back in 2012, CERN announced one of its most important achievements, the discovery of the Higgs boson leading to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. In this presentation, we will redo the data analysis t …
From New Cluster to Insight. Deploying Monitoring and Logging to Kubernetes

From New Cluster to Insight. Deploying Monitoring and Logging to Kubernetes

November 4, 2019

The question that most people ask after spinning up their first Kubernetes cluster is "how do I do monitoring and logging". In this session we'll utilize open source tools like Prometheus, Helm, Graf …
Lifecycle of a kubectl Command: Harden Kubernetes Setup with Automation

Lifecycle of a kubectl Command: Harden Kubernetes Setup with Automation

November 2, 2019

We at Booking.com run tens of on-premise multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters at scale. To automate integration with our existing bare-metal infrastructure and for running kubectl auth pipeline, we run an …
Running Resilient Workloads with Istio

Running Resilient Workloads with Istio

October 4, 2019

Remember how cool Kubernetes seemed when you first started using it? A simple, easy API for scalable compute in any cloud: just a Deployment and a Service and youre done! But as you use it more, you …