data plane

Kubernetes the very hard way

Kubernetes the very hard way

February 27, 2020

Laurent Bernaille examines the lessons he learned operating large Kubernetes clusters.
Control BGP state explosion in Scale-out peering

Control BGP state explosion in Scale-out peering

February 25, 2020

Many large-scale service provider networks use some form of scale-out architecture at peering sites. In such an architecture, each participating Autonomous System …
Software Defined Storage the Linux Way

Software Defined Storage the Linux Way

February 18, 2020

The Linux kernel has a large set of very powerful storage functionalities such as LVM, thin provisioning, RAID, SSD as HDD caches, deduplication, targets/initiators, and DRBD. They are all compatible …
Implementing a Consumer Focused SLA for a Kubernetes Based PaaS

Implementing a Consumer Focused SLA for a Kubernetes Based PaaS

December 9, 2019

Box's (internal) Platform as a Service empowers other Box teams to deliver 100's of micro services, on 1000's of hosts, across 10,000's of pods. As they scaled to support a large number of micro servi …
Multiple Networks for Kubernetes Workloads

Multiple Networks for Kubernetes Workloads

December 9, 2019

Embark on a tour of CNI multiplexers – an adventure in attaching multiple network interfaces to pods. We'll show the advantages of each and provide examples to get you started using them. We'll also …
Serverless Platform for Large Scale Mini-Apps: From Knative to Production

Serverless Platform for Large Scale Mini-Apps: From Knative to Production

November 28, 2019

Serverless architecture is getting increasingly popular. However, developers are still experiencing pain points that hold them back from using it in production, like portability, interoperability and …
What WePay Learned From Processing Billions of Dollars on GKE Using Linkerd

What WePay Learned From Processing Billions of Dollars on GKE Using Linkerd

November 11, 2019

WePay processes billions of dollars worth of payments each year. As the number of services that process payment requests grow in WePays infrastructure, so does the challenge of monitoring, debugging, …
JustFootballs Journey to gRPC + Linkerd in Production

JustFootballs Journey to gRPC + Linkerd in Production

November 6, 2019

Ben (Just Football) will talk about their journey with Kubernetes and microservices from the world of HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2.0 and gRPC. He will talk about the reasons for moving, and the best practices J …
Kubernetes Networking at Scale

Kubernetes Networking at Scale

October 15, 2019

Running large Kubernetes clusters serving high volumes of traffic (thousands of nodes serving thousands of requests/second) requires tackling scaling challenges in both the control plane and data plan …
Network Observability with Envoy

Network Observability with Envoy

October 11, 2019

The service mesh is built from two components the data plane and the control plane. The data plane handles the traffic from your service and is responsible for securing traffic, reliability patterns a …
Intro: Network Service Mesh (NSM)

Intro: Network Service Mesh (NSM)

October 10, 2019

Network Service Mesh (NSM) is a novel approach solving L2/L3 network use cases in Kubernetes that are tricky to address with the existing Kubernetes Network Model. Inspired by Istio, Network Service M …