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Cognitive biases in the architect's life

Cognitive biases in the architect's life

March 4, 2020

In this talk, Birgitta will go through just a few of the cognitive biases that can trip you up as architects, and how to soften their potentially negative impact.
SONiC: Open Source NOS in Data Center

SONiC: Open Source NOS in Data Center

March 4, 2020

SONiC as open source NOS empowers us to use uniform Operating System, Network Monitoring & Management tools and Life-cycle Management tools, across heterogeneous h …
Automating "Network Ready for Use" Testing

Automating "Network Ready for Use" Testing

March 3, 2020

Automating Network Ready for Use Testing This tutorial will showcase an approach using the pytest open-source tool to validate operational states of the networ …
Elivepatch Updates

Elivepatch Updates

March 3, 2020

In mission critical systems unscheduled downtimes must be avoided, but sometimes critical flaws in the kernel must be plugged as soon as possible.Live patch is a way of changing the kernel internals w …
Evolutionary architectures and fitness functions: A pragmatic approach

Evolutionary architectures and fitness functions: A pragmatic approach

March 3, 2020

Rene Weiss takes a deep dive into how evolutionary architectures and fitness functions help the ongoing development of software systems. You'll see practical applications of fitness functions beyond theoretical ideas and hands-on examples of tools to craft fitness functions and use them in CI/CD pipelines as well as get ideas on how to do safe experiments in production environments.
The Road to Safety Certification: How the Xen Project is Making Progress within the Auto Industry and Beyond

The Road to Safety Certification: How the Xen Project is Making Progress within the Auto Industry and Beyond

March 3, 2020

Safety certification is one of the essential requirements for software to be used in highly regulated industries. The Xen Project, a secure and stable hypervisor that is used in many different markets …
AGL Roadmap for 2019 and Beyond

AGL Roadmap for 2019 and Beyond

March 2, 2020

Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is a Linux Foundation Collaboration Project with a large development community that develops and maintains the AGL Unified Code Base (UCB) distribution. Learn about the la …
Honey, I shrunk the database: Resilience and recoverability in cloud native services

Honey, I shrunk the database: Resilience and recoverability in cloud native services

March 2, 2020

Sidney Shek and Jeff Farber explain how to use techniques like event sourcing, CQRS, and CRDTs to mitigate unpredictable failures that stem from humans and increasingly complex architectures in the cloud native world (microservices, anyone?). You'll learn implementation tips and tricks based on their successes (and failures) in building out the Identity platform that underpins Atlassian Cloud.
How a scientist would improve serverless functions

How a scientist would improve serverless functions

March 2, 2020

Join us if you're curious about how to reliably improve and refactor serverless applications or how to ensure you've covered all the unexpected edge cases that occur in production. Jochem Schulenklopper and Gero Vermaas demonstrate a scientific approach that enables you to release your refactored serverless applications to production with great confidence.
Powering Your Automation: A Single Source of Truth

Powering Your Automation: A Single Source of Truth

March 1, 2020

Powering Your Automation: A Single Source of Truth Introduction - How we define automation - Automation vs Orchestration Automation Overview - Ansible, Salt, Puppe …
Releasing improved serverless functions with confidence

Releasing improved serverless functions with confidence

March 1, 2020

Jochem Schulenklopper and Gero Vermaas explain and practice an approach that enables you to improve and release serverless functions to production with confidence. You'll make changes in some sample serverless functions running in production, deploy the improved functions to production, and analyze your improvement against the originals.
NetDevOps or CI/CD for Networks: Myth or reality

NetDevOps or CI/CD for Networks: Myth or reality

February 29, 2020

As network engineers, its almost impossible to avoid the CI/CD/NetDevOps hype-cycle. In this talk we explore how much of this is a myth, versus the ground reality …
When I grow up, I want to be a platform

When I grow up, I want to be a platform

February 29, 2020

Your organization has grown and now you need to break down product silos and leverage a common platform to move to the next big step. Join Sidney Shek and Diogo Lucas to hear to the ups and downs of a platformization journey, where they address the features you need to platformize and when, how much design is enough for a platform service, how to handle the mass adoption of your service, and more.
Building an ISP in a box

Building an ISP in a box

February 28, 2020

Althea (althea.org) which is an open source 'distributed isp' or 'isp in a box', as such we perform traffic shaping, routing, encryption, and billing entirely on h …
Complex change through simple steps: 3 principles to reduce deployment time by 99%

Complex change through simple steps: 3 principles to reduce deployment time by 99%

February 28, 2020

While its great to think big, it's important to start small and sensibly. David Jungwirth explains how Enterprise Studio by HCL Technologies helped an enterprise achieve a deployment time reduction of 99%, double its releases, and massively reduce its overhead costs for each release with few small improvements over a period of two and a half years.
Creating a scalable monitoring system that everyone will love

Creating a scalable monitoring system that everyone will love

February 28, 2020

Molly Struve gives you the tools and strategies you need to build a monitoring system that will scale with your team and your infrastructure.
Extending Salt's capabilities for event-driven network automation and orchestration

Extending Salt's capabilities for event-driven network automation and orchestration

February 27, 2020

Salt is currently one of the largely used frameworks in automating network operations. Even though it has been firstly released over 8 years ago, the network commu …
Knative: A Kubernetes framework to manage serverless workloads

Knative: A Kubernetes framework to manage serverless workloads

February 27, 2020

Knative is a Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads. It provides a set of middleware components that are essential to build modern, source-centric, and container-based applications that can run anywhere. Join Nikhil Barthwal to explore using Knative to build and deploy modern serverless workloads in a vendor neutral fashion.
Putting a Microscope on Your Application Monitoring via ebpf

Putting a Microscope on Your Application Monitoring via ebpf

February 27, 2020

The problem with most of the monitoring systems and tools today is that they identify symptoms of the problem like a high cpu utilization but are unable to tell the cause. This leads to visible proble …
Lessons Learned from the Migration to Apache Airflow

Lessons Learned from the Migration to Apache Airflow

February 26, 2020

Apache Airflow is an open-source tool for orchestrating complex workflows and data processing pipelines.In this talk, Radek Maciaszek will present his learnings from the migration of machine learning …
Prioritizing trust while creating applications

Prioritizing trust while creating applications

February 26, 2020

Time and money are generally the resources we focus on when building applications. Yet we cant buy trust; it builds slowly and can be broken quickly when we dont factor it in to our development process. Jennifer Davis examines how to leverage security practices to enable an all-team approach to security.
Test-driven development (TDD) for infrastructure

Test-driven development (TDD) for infrastructure

February 26, 2020

In software development, test-driven development (TDD) is the process of writing tests and then developing functionality to pass the tests. Rosemary Wang explores methods of adapting and applying TDD to configuring and deploying infrastructure as code.
The definitive guide to making software fail on ARM64

The definitive guide to making software fail on ARM64

February 26, 2020

Even software, written in high-level cross-platform language with no assembly can fail multiple ways when ported to a different CPU architecture. Ignat Korchagin examines the issues Cloudflare encountered when porting its software stack to ARM64.
Managing Network Device Properties as Code

Managing Network Device Properties as Code

February 25, 2020

Device configuration templates have simplified a lot of things for the network industry but many networks are still managing their device properties (aka variable …
The deputy shot the sheriff: Privilege escalation in build pipelines

The deputy shot the sheriff: Privilege escalation in build pipelines

February 25, 2020

Build pipelines are commonly used in the industry to build and roll out changes to cloud accounts. Typically, wide permissions are granted to those systems, making them an interesting attack vector. Take a look with Andreas Sieferlinger at typical vulnerabilities and examine the case of the confused deputya trusted third-party partyand how these vulnerabilities can be mitigated in real-life.
The golden idol swap: Pragmatic database migration

The golden idol swap: Pragmatic database migration

February 25, 2020

Switching databases requires a lot of effort from engineering teams, and Christian Grabowski walks you through steps you can take to reduce the amount of work needed to achieve payoff. NS1 created an abstraction layer of wire protocols between old and new databases, which allowed it to develop advanced functionality in new services, while legacy services required minimal changes.
EasyAgents: Reinforcement Learning for people who want to solve real-world problems

EasyAgents: Reinforcement Learning for people who want to solve real-world problems

February 24, 2020

Reinforce Learning can be a game changer when you do not have training data, but are instead able to simulate an environment. Unfortunately, the theory of Reinforcement Learning is complex and the vast number of algorithms in that area adds to the burden for getting started. Easyagents takes some of the burden by making it a one-liner to run a Reinforcement Learning algorithm on your problem.
Privacy, Consent and Security Within Modern Applications

Privacy, Consent and Security Within Modern Applications

February 24, 2020

Rapid application innovation is characterized in part using shared code from open source components. While open source development offers many benefits, when regulators change the rules our strengths …