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What is a Data Citizen?
Caitlin McDonald discusses how big data affects people online and the ethics to be considered when dealing with data.
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When Data Kills
Cori Crider shares insights from her investigations of US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, and explores how misuse of mass surveillance data has claimed innocent lives.
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Forced Evolution: Shopify's Journey to Kubernetes
Niko Kurtti talks about the challenges Shopify saw in moving from a traditional host-based infrastructure to a cloud native one, moving not only their core app to Kubernetes but also other apps.
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Next Gen Networking Infrastructure with Rust
Carl Lerche shows using Rust to provide a networking platform that provides expressiveness, speed, and safety, exemplifying with Linkerd, a “service mesh” proxy for cloud native applications.
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Control Planes: Designing Infrastructure for Rapid Iteration
Mohit Gupta shares Clever’s learnings on how to build developer control planes to allow our infrastructure team to make changes without disrupting engineers.
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Chick-Fil-A: Milking the Most out of 1000's of K8s Clusters
Brian Chambers and Caleb Hurd share how Chick-fil-A manages connections and deployments using two to-be-announced open source projects, and lessons learned from running Kubernetes at the Edge.
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XDP in Practice: DDoS Mitigation @Cloudflare
Gilberto Bertin discusses the architecture of Cloudflare’s automatic DDoS mitigation pipeline, the initial packet filtering solution based on Iptables, and why they had to introduce userspace offload.
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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.