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Taming Distributed Stateful Pets with Kubernetes
Matthew Bates,James Munnelly explain how to use StatefulSet and dynamic volume provisioning to manage the lifecycle of distributed and secure Cassandra clusters with the open source project Navigator.
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Kubernetes: Crossing the Chasm
Ian Crosby covers the fundamental concepts and features of Kubernetes, best practices and anti-patterns running apps is such an environment, setting up a production ready Kubernetes cluster.
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PerfView: The Ultimate .NET Performance Tool
Sasha Goldshtein talks about PerfView, an open source tool for .NET performance diagnosis used in production environments to solve CPU, wall-clock time, and memory usage issues.
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How to Build Observable Distributed Systems
Pierre Vincent covers key techniques to build distributed applications, including details on useful health checks, best practices for instrumentation with metrics, logging and tracing.
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With Great Scalability Comes Great Responsibility
Dana Engebretson covers the contextual pros and cons of a number of architectural patterns given real world scalability constraints.
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Custom App Auto-Scaler Using Cloud Controller API
Chris Decelles demos building a custom application auto-scaler using the Cloud Foundry’s controller API.
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Scaling Marketplaces at Thumbtack
Nate Kupp shares some of Thumbtack’s key learnings on their journey to scale and their future with fully-managed systems.
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Containers, Kubernetes and Google Cloud
Mete Atamel shows how to build a system, starting with a microservice, containerize it using Docker, and scale it to a cluster of resilient microservices managed by Kubernetes.
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Functional Performance
Martin Thompson discusses the most relevant laws governing software performance in the context of financial applications.
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Continuous Optimization of Microservices Using ML
Ramki Ramakrishna shares Twitter’s recent experience in applying Bayesian optimization to the performance tuning problem, discussing a service used for continuously optimizing microservices.
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Real-Time Monitoring with Grafana, StatsD and InfluxDB
Artur Prado presents a number of monitoring tools, how to use them and some code involved in tracking certain events.
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Understanding Python Memory at Instagram
Min Ni discusses how Python memory profiling is done at Instagram, insights from memory profiling data, and learnings from tuning and improving Python memory garbage collection.