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Cluster Consensus: When Aeron Met Raft
Martin Thompson explains how consensus algorithms operate and the techniques that can be applied to make them efficient. Thompson covers the mechanics of a working consensus system.
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Connecting All Abstractions with Istio
Ramiro Salas, Laurent Demailly explain what a service mesh is, its impact on PCF and K8s, the implications for the traditional infrastructure, and using Istio to integrate all abstractions.
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Building Enterprise Cache Based on CQRS
Komes Subramaniam discusses building a system that is implementing the CQRS pattern with a presentation friendly data model.
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How Performance Optimizations Shatter Security Boundaries
Moritz Lipp explains how the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities exploit hardware optimizations to read otherwise inaccessible data processed on the computer.
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Cloud-Native and Scalable Kafka Architecture
Allen Wang talks about how Netflix addresses the issues of stability and scalability in a cloud environment by having many smaller and mostly immutable Kafka clusters with limited state changes.
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Taming Distributed Stateful Pets with Kubernetes
Matthew Bates,James Munnelly explain how to use StatefulSet and dynamic volume provisioning to manage the lifecycle of distributed and secure Cassandra clusters with the open source project Navigator.
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Kubernetes: Crossing the Chasm
Ian Crosby covers the fundamental concepts and features of Kubernetes, best practices and anti-patterns running apps is such an environment, setting up a production ready Kubernetes cluster.
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Programming the Network Data Plane
Changhoon Kim talks about the new PISA ASICs and P4 and shows us how they will change the way we design, build, and run not just networks, but also distributed systems and applications.
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Rethinking Deep Learning: Neural Compute Stick
Darren Crews talks about the The Movidius Neural Compute Stick (NCS) - a tiny fanless deep learning device that one can use to learn AI programming at the edge.
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Containers, Kubernetes and Google Cloud
Mete Atamel shows how to build a system, starting with a microservice, containerize it using Docker, and scale it to a cluster of resilient microservices managed by Kubernetes.
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Solving HTTP Problems with Code and Protocols
Natasha Rooney goes through the issues in HTTP, how HTTP2 was developed using Google’s SPDY experiment, and the impact of QUIC.
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Rethinking Applications for the NVM Era
Amitabha Roy discusses how to re-architect software to take advantage of the advances of hardware today and how to write software in the future when DRAM is persistent.