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Building and Operating a Serverless Data Pipeline
At Intent our machine learning platform processes real-time and historical data to predict user intent on billions of page views a month. At the heart of this system is a serverless data pipeline that allows us to gather, process, store, and analyze data from disparate data sources....
Thinking Methods - Systems Thinking at Work and Play
Complexity creates fun in the games we play and bugs in the code we squash. Thinking in systems focuses on understanding the context of this complexity through the patterns and structures around us; a perfect complement to Agile's small iterable steps. Software features and bugs do not...
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...
The Service Mesh: It's About Traffic
The "cloud native" ecosystem---largely centered around Kubernetes and microservice architectures---has taken the industry by storm. As teams rush into this brave new world, they quickly find that there's a need for a new set of instrumentation and tooling primitives. This can be...
Introduction to SMI the Service Mesh Interface)
Recently a consortium of companies released a generic interface for service mesh technology. The goal of this abstraction layer is to provide an easy to consume API that can be implemented by many different service mesh implementations (e.g. Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect, etc). In providing an...
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Building and Operating a Serverless Data Pipeline
What is the focus of your work these days?
I'm the lead of the data platform team at Intent. Intent is a data science company that helps commerce sites maximize the value for each person who visits their site. Our main product is an ad network that runs on travel sites. On the data platform team we oversee our data pipeline, that collects data from ad servers and various...
Read Full InterviewThinking Methods - Systems Thinking at Work and Play
What is the focus of your work today?
I work at Carbon Five as a consultant. Carbon Five is really well known for pragmatically applying agile in a ton of different situations from startup to Fortune 500. On every project that I come into, it ends up being kind of the same concept of coming into a team and coming together to either create or make changes to both a product...
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...
Read Full InterviewHow to Evolve Kubernetes Resource Management Model
What is the focus of your work today?
I'm mostly working on two major things: a) Improve Kubernetes reliability in terms of resource isolation. We want to provide better isolation between containers by hardening the resource model. b) We also attempt to see how we can better support other non-primary resources such as GPU.
Read Full InterviewThe Service Mesh: It's About Traffic
Tell me a bit about you, Buoyant and Linkerd.
Before Buoyant I worked with large Internet companies, Yahoo and Twitter, and Twitter is where I learned the most about what we're doing at Buoyant and with Linkerd. Twitter is working on a framework called Finagle. We're building on a microservice architecture. At Twitter we didn't have those terms or the awareness that...
Read Full InterviewScaling DB Access for Billions of Queries Per Day @PayPal
What is the focus of your work today?
Petrica: I am working on developing Hera, which is High Efficiency Reliable Access to data sources, basically a proxy to databases. We support Oracle and MySQL. Hera helps PayPal scale.
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