Immutable Infrastructure
Past Presentations
A Series of Unfortunate Container Events @Netflix
Project Titus is Netflix's container runtime on top of Amazon EC2. Titus powers algorithm research through massively parallel model training, media encoding, data research notebooks, ad hoc reporting, NodeJS UI services, stream processing and general micro-services. As an update from last year's...
Presidential Campaigns & Immutable Infrastructure
Hillary for America was arguably one of 2016’s largest startups. It was in the news every day, raised billions of dollars, and grew at an incredibly fast rate. There was even a very splashy exit. But what isn’t often talked about is the technical infrastructure behind it. Over the course of...
Spotify Lessons: Learning to Let Go of Machines
Spotify is currently one of the most popular music streaming services in the world with over 100 million monthly active users. At Spotify, a team of 6 engineers maintains the machine provisioning and capacity fleet for all 150+ Spotify teams. This talk is going to tell the story of how...
Serverless Platform: Scientific Computation @Scale
Data Intensive applications are everywhere, and they present a very unique set of challenges that traditional OLTP services present. Over the last decades we have re-invented how data intensive applications work by deploying Map-Reduce at scale with Hadoop, and recently by Spark and Samza which...
Interviews
Presidential Campaigns & Immutable Infrastructure
QCon: Aside from supporting a website, people might ask why would a Presidential campaign need immutable infrastructure? What are some use cases that the team had to handle and how large was the team?
Michael: I joined Hillary for America at the beginning of a campaign in June of 2015. At that point, we had just a few things that we were doing. These were things like collecting money online, trying to get people to sign up for emails, or keeping engagement with web site.
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