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Self-Selection for Resilience and Better Culture
The talent shortage is real. According to CareerBuilder research, 60% of US organizations today can’t fill their open positions in 12 weeks or more. Combined with a high turnover rate, this leads to a…
Google Expands ML Kit, Adds Smart Reply and Language Identification
In a recent Android blog post, Google announced the release of two new Natural Language Processing (NLP) features for ML Kit, including Language Identification and Smart Reply. In both cases, Google is providing domain-independent APIs that help developers analyze and generate text, speak and
Cloud Foundry Services on PKS with No Extra Code
Joe Eltgroth, Jeenal Shah introduce Kibosh: a framework to deploy services to PKS/Kubernetes and make them available to applications.
Safety at Speed: Panel Discussion with Boeing Corporation
The panelist discuss Boeing IT transformation adopting Cloud Foundry on multiple datacenters and tooling for automated CI/CD.
It's All about Delivering: A Journey from AWS to Cloud Foundry
Daniel Basten discusses how Talanx adopted the Axon Framework and moved from AWS to PCF.
Hitting the Enterprise Sweet Spot – A Real-World View of PKS Deployment…
Alan Flower presents several use cases that drive PKS adoption, showing where it presents a better solution for certain workloads and share real data on cloud migration trends.
Containers Were Never Your End State
Will Arroyo, Duncan Winn discuss the technical details, components, deployment patterns and usage of Kubernetes.
Towards Specifications of Robustness - the Things That Programs do _not_ do
Sophia Drossopoulou discusses holistic specifications", an extension of traditional program specifications that support the expression of robustness properties through a logic with spatial and temporal features.
Politics & Hierarchy: How We Create It & How to Stop
Katherine Kirk challenges traditional thinking by using Eastern Philosophical models as lenses to explore how politics and hierarchy arise even in the most Lean-Agile environments.
Reducing Risk of Credential Compromise @Netflix
Will Bengtson and Travis McPeak talk about Netflix Infrastructure Security.
Data Science for Lazy People, Automated Machine Learning
Diego Hueltes discusses using Automated Machine Learning as a personal assistant in Data Science.
Reconciling Kubernetes and PCI DSS for a Modern and Compliant Payment System
Ana Calin, systems engineer at Paybase, gave an experience report at QCon London [slides PDF] on how the end-to-end payments service provider solution managed to achieve PCI DSS level 1 compliance (the highest) with 50+ Node.js microservices running on Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
From Developer to Security: How I Broke into Infosec
I've spent roughly 18 years building sites and apps for the web and while I always did my best to apply the basics of security, I never truly understood the many ways systems could be hacked. That…
To Multicluster, or Not to Multicluster: Inter-Cluster Communication Using a Service Mesh
Communication within Kubernetes clusters is a solved issue, but communication across clusters requires more design and operational overhead. Before deciding on whether to implement multicluster…
CockroachDB: Architecture of a Geo-Distributed SQL Database
In this talk Cockroach Labs' CTO and co-founder, Peter Mattis, will speak to the architecture of an open-source, geo-distributed, SQL database. The talk will be a whirlwind tour of CockroachDB’s…
Develop Hundreds of Kubernetes Services at Scale with Airbnb
Melanie Cebula identifies key problems that make out-of-the-box Kubernetes less friendly to developers, and strategies for addressing them, based on Airbnb’s experience empowering one thousand engineers to develop hundreds of Kubernetes services at scale. She focuses primarily on four problem areas: Configuration, CI/CD, Service
How to Tell Your Boss Story Points Are a Terrible Metric
Liz Ince and Chris Wilkinson look at the different measures commonly found in software development, what they’re used for, highlight the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of measuring progress versus…
Continuous Profiling in Production: What, Why and How
Richard Warburton and Sadiq Jaffer talk about the ins and outs of profiling in a production system, the different techniques and approaches that help understand what’s really happening with a system. This helps solve new performance problems, regressions and undertake capacity planning exercises.
[Free O’Reilly Ebook] Continuous API Management
This excerpt from Continuous API Management is a practical guide that provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for…
Open Policy Agent Accepted as CNCF Incubation Level Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted the Open Policy Agent (OPA) as an incubation-level hosted project on April 2nd. OPA is an open source, general-purpose policy engine. OPA targets…
Everyday Efficiencies | Software Architecture Conference
If we are lucky, we think of performance as an afterthought. Same with other “non-functional” requirements such as security, quality, scaling, etc. However, experience shows that it is easier, at…
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2019
QCon returned to London this past March for its thirteenth year in the city, attracting 1,500 senior developers, architects, and team leads.
Microsoft Announces General Availability of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac. The new version comes with a number of improvements over the last major version released in 2017. A couple…