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Caching Beyond RAM: The Case for NVMe
Alan Kasindorf explores the possibility of using new storage devices to reduce DRAM dependency for cache workloads and talks about use cases that optimize for different cache workloads.
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How to Make Linux Microservice-Aware with Cilium and eBPF
Thomas Graf talks about a new efficient in-kernel programming language called eBPF. It allows extending existing kernel components or glue them together in new forms without changing the kernel itself
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Day Two Kubernetes: Tools for Operability
Bridget Kromhout discusses what containers and Kubernetes clusters are at a high level, and looks into the practical application of open source tools to simplify cluster management.
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DevOps & Lean Thinking Panel
The panelists confront deep questions like, "How do you DevOps right?" and, "Is testing waste?" Find pointers about selecting incident commanders, DevOps under auditing constraints, and more.
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Service Ownership @Slack
Holly Allen talks about the bumps and scrapes, triumphs and pitfalls of Slack’s journey from a centralized ops team to development teams that own the full lifecycle of their systems.
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Serverless and Chatbots: A Match Made in the Cloud
Gillian Armstrong uses practical examples from their chatbot and shares some of the lessons they learned which help starting a chatbot.
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Whispers in the Chaos: Monitoring Weak Signals
J. Paul Reed looks at what the safety sciences have to say about humans operating complex socio-technical systems, including how resilience engineering can help, and more.
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DevOps for the Database
Baron Schwartz explores real-life stories that answer two questions: “Why is it hard to apply DevOps principles and practices to databases, and how can we get better at it?”
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Crisis to Calm: Story of Data Validation @ Netflix
Lavanya Kanchanapalli discusses safe data propagation at Netflix, circuit breakers, data canaries and staggered rollout effective, and efficient validations via sharing data and isolating change.
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Connecting, Managing, Observing, and Securing Services
Zack Butcher talks about how a service mesh helps with the transition from monoliths to microservices, to empower operations teams, and to adopt security best-practices.
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Nearline Recommendations for Active Communities @LinkedIn
Hema Raghavan focusses on technologies they have built to power LinkedIn’s “People You May Know” product and describes their nearline platform for notification recommendation.
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Reactive DDD—When Concurrent Waxes Fluent
Vaughn Vernon gives practical guidance on using DDD to model business-driven solutions that result in software that is fluent, type-safe, and with core Reactive properties.