Building a data lake is a hard task. You have to centralize all the data of the company in one place, it must be easily accessible, and governance has to be done right. And, last but not least, the price has to stay reasonable. All those aspects come up as quite a challenge. But never fear. Viacheslav Inozemtsev outlines the experience of building Zalando's data lake.

Molly Struve gives you the tools and strategies you need to build a monitoring system that will scale with your team and your infrastructure.

Email overload, distributed teams and excessive meetings have caused many organizations to move their DevOps teams to messaging platforms and thus adopt ChatOps workflows. With thousands of open sourc …

When designing APIs such as the new GCP Firestore real-time database and Google Assistant, how did Google decide which trade-offs to make? Wenbo Zhu dives deep into the challenges faced while deploying a real-time streaming API designed for clients from data centers to the internet and details the trade-offs API developers need be aware of when designing such an API.

NATS is a mature, high-performance publish/subscribe messaging system that's part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Waldemar Quevedo explores how to build production-ready applications using NATS to address common issues that arise in cloud native environments, such as service discovery, scalability, self-healing, authentication/authorization, and low-latency RPC.

Robin Moffatt walks you through the architectural reasoning for Apache Kafka and the benefits of real-time integration. You'll then build a streaming data pipeline using nothing but your bare hands, Kafka Connect, and KSQL.

Some people use digital devices to track their blood alcohol content (BAC). A BAC-tracking app that could anticipate when a person is likely to have a high BAC could offer coaching in a time of need. Kirstin Aschbacher shares a machine learning approach that predicts user BAC levels with good precision based on minimal information, thereby enabling targeted interventions.

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 …

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 …

The conversational commerce experience needs to be personalized to allow customers to extend and customize the chat experience with bespoke code. Attend this talk to hear how LivePerson took one of t …

Kubernetes describes itself as "a portable, extensible open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services".There are edge and IoT use cases that challenge some aspects of Kubernete …

With the advancement in cloud service capabilities such as databases, cognitive services, and messaging queues, application architecture is extending to include not only code but also managed cloud se …