distributed system

Lightning Talk: Beyond Operators: Reimagine Distributed Applications on Kubernetes

Lightning Talk: Beyond Operators: Reimagine Distributed Applications on Kubernetes

November 18, 2019

Kubernetes runs the distributed replicas of an application completely independent with no mechanism provided for coordination between replicas. To minimize race conditions, and other side effects of d …
Sponsored Keynote: Network, Please Evolve

Sponsored Keynote: Network, Please Evolve

November 16, 2019

Cloud native applications in planet-scale distributed systems are bound together by the network. How we think about application layer networking has evolved significantly over the years, enabling huge …
Intro: NATS

Intro: NATS

November 12, 2019

NATS is a high performance publish/subscribe messaging system that has as one of its main goals connecting services in the simplest, most secure and reliable way possible. The project has a long histo …
Sponsored Keynote: Expanding the Kubernetes Operator Community

Sponsored Keynote: Expanding the Kubernetes Operator Community

November 8, 2019

Operators enable you run those tricky stateful services and complex distributed systems on Kubernetes. Kubernetes Operators are embedded with all of the special knowledge for running an app, from th …
The Story of Why We Migrate to gRPC and How We Go About It

The Story of Why We Migrate to gRPC and How We Go About It

November 5, 2019

At Spotify, we have historically built services based on our own proprietary messaging protocol and framework. Last year we finally kicked off the daunting multi-year task of migrating everything to g …
Tracing is More Than Traces: The Insights in Trace Aggregates

Tracing is More Than Traces: The Insights in Trace Aggregates

October 29, 2019

The value proposition for distributed tracing is well-understood: assembling and visualizing end-to-end transactions helps to identify latency bottlenecks and provides a head-start on problem diagnosi …
5 Simple Steps To Simplifying Your Compliance Journey With a Service Mesh

5 Simple Steps To Simplifying Your Compliance Journey With a Service Mesh

October 25, 2019

Building distributed systems is hard. Building distributed systems that are secure and compliant is even harder. A service mesh such as Istio can help solve engineering problems youll face when secur …
Intro + Deep Dive: Jaeger

Intro + Deep Dive: Jaeger

October 21, 2019

Jaeger is a distributed tracing platform, providing a way to monitor and troubleshoot transactions in complex distributed systems. In the first part, well introduce you to Jaeger, showing what it is …
Microservices for the Masses Integrating a Distributed OS with Kubernetes

Microservices for the Masses Integrating a Distributed OS with Kubernetes

October 16, 2019

We discuss our experiences integrating an open source distributed operating system (Amino) with Kubernetes to make reliable distributed microservices much easier to write. Writing reliable distributed …
WebAssembly, Serverless, and the Cloud

WebAssembly, Serverless, and the Cloud

October 11, 2019

WebAssembly is enjoying a lot of hype and momentum right now, but most of it is focused around what it can do for end users and browser-based applications. There's more to WebAssembly than just the we …
Why is Cloud-Native Application Development Still So Hard?

Why is Cloud-Native Application Development Still So Hard?

October 5, 2019

Creating reliable, scalable, distributed cloud-native applications is still way too difficult for us mere mortal application developers. Why must we understand and solve complex distributed systems pr …
Cloud Native Load Balancing From Scratch

Cloud Native Load Balancing From Scratch

September 30, 2019

Load balancing is required by all modern distributed systems, which can be done in many places and multiple layers. With all the options on the table, eg: gRPC, Envoy, IPVS/BPF, have you been curious …
Kubernetes Housekeeping

Kubernetes Housekeeping

September 30, 2019

One of the big challenges of running large scale distributed systems like Kubernetes is managing resources. The efficiency and long term operational readiness of such systems depends on how well the r …