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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.
Only Slightly Bent: Ubers Kubernetes Migration Journey for Microservices

Only Slightly Bent: Ubers Kubernetes Migration Journey for Microservices

December 22, 2019

Uber started using docker containers at scale in 2015, and has gone through a few generations of cluster management and service discovery technologies. In early 2019, we started working on migration f …
Solving the enterprise data dilemma (sponsored by erwin)

Solving the enterprise data dilemma (sponsored by erwin)

December 21, 2019

Adam Famularo showcases erwin's combination of data management and data governance to produce actionable insights. Erwin customer Nasdaq then shares a real-world use case. You'll learn how to answer tough data questions, how to maintain a metadata landscape, and how to use data management and governance to produce actionable insights.
Beyond Storage Management

Beyond Storage Management

December 20, 2019

Kubernetes added alpha support for persistent volume snapshotting in 1.12 through the Container Storage Interface (CSI). While having some limitations, this feature is critical to stateful workloads a …
The future of the firm: Starting now

The future of the firm: Starting now

December 20, 2019

Josh Bersin explains how firms are transforming for the digital era, covering the death of the traditional organizational hierarchy, new models of leadership and management, changes in the way people learn and progress, new models of pay, and the importance of trust and transparency as a central business value.
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.
Enabling Kubeflow with Enterprise-Grade Auth for On-Prem Deployments

Enabling Kubeflow with Enterprise-Grade Auth for On-Prem Deployments

December 19, 2019

Kubeflow is an open source machine learning platform built on Kubernetes. Every service in Kubeflow is implemented either as a Custom Resource Definition (CRD) (e.g., TensorFlow Job) or as a standalon …
When SQL users run wild: Resource management features and techniques to tame Apache Impala

When SQL users run wild: Resource management features and techniques to tame Apache Impala

December 19, 2019

As the popularity and utilization of Apache Impala deployments increases, clusters often become victims of their own success when demand for resources exceeds the supply. Tim Armstrong dives into the latest resource management features in Impala to maintain high cluster availability and optimal performance and provides examples of how to configure them in your Impala deployment.
A Peek Inside the Enterprise Cloud at Salesforce

A Peek Inside the Enterprise Cloud at Salesforce

December 18, 2019

This talk offers a peek inside the enterprise cloud infrastructure at Salesforce. Kubernetes is open source software which is becoming the de facto standard for running services as scale.Enterprise da …
Automating stateful applications with Kubernetes Operators (sponsored by OpenShift)

Automating stateful applications with Kubernetes Operators (sponsored by OpenShift)

December 18, 2019

Kubernetes scales and manages stateless applications quite easily. Stateful applications can require more work. They can be harder to dynamically manage with data intact and sometimes come with their own notion of clustering. Jan Kleinert offers an overview of OperatorsKubernetes agents that know how to deploy, scale, manage, back up, and even upgrade complex stateful applications.
Content systems architecture: Approaches in a decoupled world

Content systems architecture: Approaches in a decoupled world

December 18, 2019

Modern content "management" systems are as conceptually challenging as they are technically difficult. Architecting them isnt (strictly) AWS configuring or software solutioning now. The work requires an evolution from strategic planning to collaborative strategic thinking. Diana Montalion explores "archistructure": enabling everyone to engage with the parts through the lens of the whole.
Entity component systems and you: They're not just for game developers

Entity component systems and you: They're not just for game developers

December 17, 2019

While the rest of the software architecture world is admiring their containers, edge computing, and cloud-native architecture, game developers are off in the corner creating entity component system (ECS)-based architectures and pushing the boundaries with this flexible, compatible, composable approach. It's not just for games. Paris Buttfield-Addison, Mars Geldard, and Tim Nugent explain why.
Enforcing Automatic mTLS with Linkerd and OPA Gatekeeper

Enforcing Automatic mTLS with Linkerd and OPA Gatekeeper

December 16, 2019

Whether you are operating a 5-node or a 500-node Kubernetes clusters, ensuring the integrity and security of the traffic among your workloads is something that should be taken seriously. As your team …
KubeVirt Intro: Virtual Machine Management on Kubernetes

KubeVirt Intro: Virtual Machine Management on Kubernetes

December 16, 2019

This session will provide an introduction to the KubeVirt project, which turns Kubernetes into an orchestration engine for not just application containers but virtual machine workloads as well. This p …
Microservices architecture in the real world

Microservices architecture in the real world

December 16, 2019

Once you decide to adopt a microservices architecture, you'll face many more decisions and questions about routing, management, observability, developer experience, and more. Mason Jones shares approaches based on his real-world experiences making the shift to microservices.
Managing Apache Flink on Kubernetes - FlinkK8sOperator

Managing Apache Flink on Kubernetes - FlinkK8sOperator

December 15, 2019

We have designed and built an open-source Kubernetes native operator that manages the complete lifecycle of Apache Flink applications from creation to execution. FlinkK8sOperator (https://github.com/l …
Serverless cloud showdown: Orchestrating functions

Serverless cloud showdown: Orchestrating functions

December 15, 2019

As fans of serverless and event-driven architectures, Kenny Baas-Schwegler and Marc Duiker wanted to see how easy it was to create a serverless application in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloudspecifically, by comparing how easy it is to orchestrate functions, using a current car park management example solution. Join them to learn the pros and cons of each cloud vendor.
Technical debt: A master class

Technical debt: A master class

December 15, 2019

Robert Lefkowitz offers an overview of technical debt, explaining how to recognize it, how to prevent or reduce it, and why there is so much of it.
KubeEdge Deep Dive

KubeEdge Deep Dive

December 10, 2019

KubeEdge is an open source project extending native containerized application orchestration and device management to from central cloud to Edge. It is built upon Kubernetes and provides core infrastru …
Deep Dive: Harbor - Enterprise Cloud-native Artifact Registry

Deep Dive: Harbor - Enterprise Cloud-native Artifact Registry

December 8, 2019

Harbor is an open-source trusted cloud-native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content. It has been widely used by organizations large and small around the world to resolve both the cont …
From Brownfield to Greenfield: Istio Service Mesh Journey at Freddie Mac

From Brownfield to Greenfield: Istio Service Mesh Journey at Freddie Mac

December 6, 2019

Freddie Mac is one of the two mortgage loan corporations in the United States managing trillions of dollars of assets across the country. Our infrastructure is spread across different Kubernetes provi …
Geo-partitioning with Vitess

Geo-partitioning with Vitess

December 5, 2019

Geo-partitioning is an emerging requirement for multinational corporations. Laws such as the GDPR in Europe stipulate where a users data needs to be physically located, as well as when it can be tran …
Panel: Enterprise-grade, On-prem Kubeflow in the Financial Sector

Panel: Enterprise-grade, On-prem Kubeflow in the Financial Sector

December 5, 2019

This presentation will explore the journeys of two ML architects from JPMorgan Chase and US Bank, who have deployed Kubeflow into their on-premise environments. These subject matter experts will revie …
Intro: SIG Cluster Lifecycle

Intro: SIG Cluster Lifecycle

December 4, 2019

The Cluster Lifecycle SIG is the Special Interest Group that is responsible for building the user experience for deploying and upgrading Kubernetes clusters. Our mission is examining how we should cha …
Mitigating Noisy Neighbours: Advanced Container Resource Management

Mitigating Noisy Neighbours: Advanced Container Resource Management

December 2, 2019

In large clusters, some applications attempt to consume a majority of shared resources. These "noisy neighbours" cause performance degradation for other workloads in the cluster. At this time, Kuberne …
Realizing End to End Reproducible Machine Learning on Kubernetes

Realizing End to End Reproducible Machine Learning on Kubernetes

December 1, 2019

Industry adaptation of data-science has grown rapidly in the last few years. The probabilistic nature of this space requires the right tools and techniques to ensure that the answers produced are reli …
Introducing Metal: Kubernetes Native Bare Metal Host Management

Introducing Metal: Kubernetes Native Bare Metal Host Management

November 30, 2019

Metal (metal kubed) is a new open source bare metal host provisioning tool created to enable Kubernetes-native infrastructure management. Metal enables the management of bare metal hosts via custo …
Open Source Weave Ignite - The GitOps VM

Open Source Weave Ignite - The GitOps VM

November 28, 2019

Weave Ignite is a new open source tool that combines Firecracker microVMs with OCI images, containerd and CNI to unify containers and VMs. It integrates with Kubernetes and GitOps operators so it can …