Containers
Past Presentations
Better DevEx at Netflix: Polyglot and Containers
A quick scan through Netflix Github repository reveals how deeply invested Netflix engineering has been on Java and the cloud. While both of these remain true, the story has gotten increasingly more complex over time. Growth and various business drivers have propelled Netflix beyond a single...
Container and Orchestration Platforms Open Space
Open Space is a simple way to run productive meetings from 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice or extraordinary change. In Open Space sessions, participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel...
Peloton - Uber's Webscale Unified Scheduler on Mesos & Kubernetes
With the increasing scale of Uber’s business, efficient use of cluster resources is important to reduce the cost per trip. As we have learned when operating Mesos clusters in production, it is a challenge to overcommit resources for latency-sensitive services due to their large spread of...
Alibaba Container Platform Infrastructure - a Kubernetes Approach
As one of the biggest data companies in the world, Alibaba provides thousands of on-line/off-line services to various customers to support their business. Most of the Alibaba applications are fully containerized and run on top of Alibaba container platform which manages huge number of...
How to Evolve Kubernetes Resource Management Model
Built with Linux container and cgroup technologies, Kubernetes provides an efficient framework for deploying different kinds of application workloads across multiple machines and compute platforms. Over the past five years, Kubernetes has evolved to support increasingly complex and diverse...
Practical mTLS: Security Without the Headaches
Over the last few years, more and more system administrators and developers have become concerned about guaranteeing the authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of their network communications. TLS has emerged as the solution recommended by security practitioners for all these problems....
Interviews
Chick-Fil-A: Milking the Most Out of 1000's of K8s Clusters
How does the Kubernetes implementation at Chick-Fil-A differ from more common approaches to Kubernetes deployments?
Brian: Most of the people that we see in the industry that are running Kubernetes clusters at any kind of scale (or really running and big container platforms) generally have a cloud-based infrastructure that they run in AWS (or Google). Most companies have a single or a few sizeable Kubernetes clusters with a large number of nodes (on...
Read Full InterviewForced Evolution: Shopify's Journey to Kubernetes
What’s the focus of your work today?
I'm on the cloud platform team. Mostly I'm working with Kubernetes. The main goal is to make sure our platform for developers is working. That may mean that I'm debugging some issues with Docker or Kubernetes, or I’m writing Golang to automate the platform. Today, I'm actually working on improving our cluster life cycle, we are...
Read Full InterviewControl Planes: Designing Infrastructure for Rapid Iteration
What is your field of working for today?
I've been at Clever for since the start (five and a half years while the company itself started around six years ago). I joined as a software engineer, started focussed on infrastructure and security and also started the infrastructure team. Due to my tenure, I do end up dealing with things such as old database instances and the...
Read Full InterviewIntroduction to gVisor: Sandboxed Linux Container Runtime
What’s the focus of the work you do today? You're an advocate, are you focused on talking about gVisor right now or what's your main focus?
I am focused on application development, specifically Ruby development, and working to deliver content for application developers to run their applications on cloud. I encourage application developers to use Google Cloud in addition to their current infrastructure by explaining why Google Cloud is efficient and secure on its own.
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Read Full InterviewAlibaba Container Platform Infrastructure - a Kubernetes Approach
What is the focus of your work today?
I'm currently working on Alibaba Container Platform team, focusing on the integration of the Kubernetes including extending it for our workloads and needs in terms of creating new controllers making the Scheduler more scalable and providing native Kubernetes API to the upper pass layer demanded by other clients in the Alibaba cloud...
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