Conf42 Cloud Native 2021
2021-04-29
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[Conf42 Cloud Native 2021, Conf42 Cloud Native 2022, Conf42 Cloud Native 2023, Conf42 Cloud Native 2025, Conf42 Cloud Native 2026]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Premiere | Or Elimelech, Eldad Rudich, Michael Sickles | 34m |
🔴 Conf42 Cloud Native 2021 is here! 🐳
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| Puerta, a gating service for Flagger | Or Elimelech, Eldad Rudich | 16m |
Puerta is a homegrown gating service that extends FluxCD + Flagger to enforce real behaviors: Puerta implements Flagger webhook phases, it runs a pre-rollout… | ||
| Using OpenTelemetry in a polyglot environment | Michael Sickles | 32m |
Instrumenting the Google Microservices demo (Go, Java, NodeJS, .Net, Python) to produce a single distributed trace, this work shows concrete steps: swap… | ||
| Locking Down the Security of IAM | Josh Stella | 37m |
Cloud IAM misconfigurations are the primary cloud attack surface, with automated scanners finding assets in 5–7 minutes and common mistakes turning benign… | ||
| Chaos Engineering for Cloud Native | Uma Mukkara | 23m |
Covers running chaos experiments against Kubernetes clusters using ChaosNative and LitmusChaos, defining measurable SLOs, and tying failures to observability… | ||
| Building a K8s Operator for a Distributed Database | Natalie Pistunovich | 16m |
An Aerospike Kubernetes operator that claims 100% uptime for high‑load databases actually implements live patching, cluster replacement of tens of nodes, and… | ||
| Compiling Containers | Adam Gordon Bell | 28m |
Claim: BuildKit is the actual compiler behind docker build not just a builder UI and it exposes an llb IR so frontends and backends interoperate. Proof: using… | ||
| Cgroups. Using container technologies as a PaaS provider | Matthias Dugué | 23m |
Claims running a PaaS without Docker or Kubernetes using Linux cgroups and POSIX features, backed by 15 years production at AlwaysData. Describes an… | ||
| Exploring Stateful Microservices built with Open Liberty | Mary Grygleski | 50m |
Demonstrates how to keep HTTP session data across containers by running Open Liberty in Kubernetes and using JCache + Hazelcast session persistence; builds a… | ||
| Cloud. Application and Configuration | Ismael Hommani, Joachim Rousseau | 33m |
Ismael Hommani - Cloud Native Developer
& Joachim Rousseau - Coding Architect
@ WeScale
Cloud is now well accepted in development practices. Projects with no… | ||
| Making Logs Work for you with Fluentd | Phil Wilkins | 39m |
Fluentd is presented as a log unification layer that replaces Logstash with a much larger plugin ecosystem, parses heterogeneous payloads into a common record… | ||
| Save, Grow and Innovate using AWS Databases | Akanksha Sheoran | 21m |
Claims that Amazon Aurora gives 3–5× throughput over MySQL/Postgres with six-way replication and continuous backups, that Amazon DynamoDB handles 10 trillion… | ||
| Architectural Caching Patterns for Kubernetes | Rafal Leszko | 25m |
Compares concrete caching topologies on Kubernetes and shows which one to pick by claim and evidence: demoed architectures include Sidecar Caching, Reverse… | ||
| Automation is where a project starts | Ricardo Miranda | 11m |
Claims that projects start automation immediately and that this both speeds delivery and incrementally hardens the automation layer. Describes building a CI/CD… | ||
| Leveraging Multi-Cloud Clusters in Real-World | Adrienne Braganza Tacke | 43m |
Multi-cloud clusters are presented as an actual, working solution for data problems: an emergency‑services app uses AWS Montreal plus GCP failover and Azure… | ||
| Doing GitOps for multi-cloud using Crossplane & Flux2 | Leonardo Murillo | 34m |
Bootstraps a cluster with Flux2 bootstraps repo and cluster then uses Flux2 helm CRDs to install Crossplane provisions Cloud SQL and RDS from manifests… | ||
| Breaking vendor lock-in with Cloud Sidecar | Larry Finn | 26m |
Cloud Sidecar claims to translate cloud APIs so existing apps can switch clouds with no code rewrites, deployed as a local sidecar that proxies and converts… | ||
| Multi-Cloud serverless deployment | Pawel Skrzypek, Alicja Reniewicz | 35m |
An open source framework that actually deploys serverless functions across clouds and a small demo platform are described with the concrete claim that it… | ||
| Embracing change: Policy-as-code with OPA and Gatekeeper | Ara Pulido | 27m |
Gatekeeper embeds OPA to enforce concrete policy decisions at admission time and uses Kubernetes CRDs so policies become real objects. The demo shows reusable… | ||
| Kubernetes Security Jumpstart | Mofi Rachman | 33m |
Clear, actionable checklist: avoid image tags like latest and use digest SHA for reproducible images, run dockle and trivy in CI to catch CVEs and bad… | ||
| Securing Containers by Breaking In | Brian Vermeer | 37m |
Live hacks show real outcomes: outdated binaries lead to code execution (an ImageMagick RCE breaks out to run scripts and spawn a shell via netcat), Spring… | ||
| Journey towards Secure Architecture in the Cloud | Vandana Verma Sehgal | 36m |
Lays out a repeatable architecture review methodology with a practical checklist for network segmentation, identity, data protection and monitoring, and shows… | ||
| Cloud Threat Landscape - 2021 | Stuart Green | 31m |
Check Point Research claims a real fraudulent wire transfer from an email compromised on a cloud app and a public cloud infrastructure vulnerability, and shows… | ||
| Truth about running Cloud Security Assessments in 2021 | Ashish Rajan | 30m |
Claims that cloud docs and well‑architected guides rarely match reality: many orgs have dozens of accounts and hundreds of services in one tenancy; CSPMs and… | ||
| Health checks & dependency management | Andrew Robinson | 18m |
A web recommendation app runs on EC2 in an Auto Scaling group across AZs, uses Amazon DynamoDB for data, and implements a Python /healthcheck path that returns… | ||
| Static stability using availability zones | Eduardo Janicas | 25m |
Defines static stability as over‑provisioning so services keep running without launching new instances when an Availability Zone fails, showing EC2’s split… | ||
| Global Active-Active Serverless | Jorge Fonseca | 18m |
Claims a working multi‑region active‑active stack that uses DynamoDB Global Tables, API Gateway + Lambda and EventBridge to route and replicate state across… | ||
| Monitoring Microservices The Right Way | Dotan Horovits | 16m |
Argues that Graphite+StatsD breaks under microservices and promotes labeling model with Prometheus-style labels, shows metric endpoints at /metrics and metric… | ||
| Observability across serverless asynchronous managed services | Aviad Mor | 24m |
Explains how to stitch traces across Lambda plus SNS SQS EventBridge DynamoDB by instrumenting handoffs and data links, showing a working Medtronic & Lumigo… | ||
| Hundreds of Microservices without breaking your APIs | Michael Haberman | 31m |
Describes how a system that grows to 120 microservices introduces unknown producers and consumers, how switching sync HTTP to kafka persists messages avoids… | ||
| Monitoring Kubernetes VS Serverless-based applications | Erez Berkner | 13m |
Compares Kubernetes-era monitoring (Prometheus + Grafana, ELK, service mesh like Istio) with serverless realities and claims agentless monitoring is mandatory… | ||
| Continuous Security - Building Security into your Pipelines | Matt Jarvis | 18m |
Concrete claims and concrete actions: over 70% of vulnerabilities are in indirect dependencies, use Snyk to scan code, images and repos, and enforce checks in… | ||
| CI/CD in the serverless era | Efi Merdler-Kravitz | 18m |
Lumigo runs 20,000 integration tests per month and pushes ~30 production deployments weekly while claiming a CI/CD time cut of two‑thirds by using real AWS… | ||
| The Need for Speed (in your CI/CD setup) | Zan Markan | 27m |
Claim: a real all-day build gets reduced to minutes by specific actions not platitudes. Concrete fixes used on CircleCi include increasing resource class to… | ||
| Kubernetes won't save you | Lian Li | 26m |
Claim: Kubernetes often becomes an overcomplicated choice when the real blockers are cultural and organisational. Shows a concrete IoT case: a camera with… | ||
| Building a Serverless FinTech Startup on Azure | Daniel Bass | 20m |
Zeti builds a pay-per-mile vehicle financing platform that ingests IoT telemetry from thousands of vehicles into a serverless Azure stack: Azure Functions… | ||
| Containing an Elephant | Dhiraj Hegde | 32m |
Runs HBase/HDFS (thousands of machines, multiple petabytes, billions of queries/day) on AWS Kubernetes and proves stateful workloads can work at scale. Uses… | ||
| Graviton2: How Honeycomb Reduced Infra Spend by 40% | Shelby Spees | 13m |
Honeycomb reports a 40% reduction in AWS spend by moving high‑volume services to Graviton2 arm64, measuring outcomes not promises. Benchmarks show ~10% lower… | ||
| Why you should take care of infrastructure drift | Stephane Jourdan | 24m |
Shows an open source tool called drift control that scans AWS and compares live resources to Terraform state, reporting coverage percentage and listing… | ||
| Your Java code Cloud Native ready: a live experience | Elder Moraes | 37m |
Live coding shows a Java app built with Quarkus and MicroProfile, packaged to a container and deployed to Kubernetes with blue/green and canary routing, hot… | ||
| Spend more on than you expect and be happy about it | Marco Coulter | 15m |
Marco Coulter
Technical Evangelist @ Tech-Whisperer.com
Cloud Native will reduce your cost, right? Sorry, Jevon says you are likely to end up spending more… | ||
| Pragmatic App Migration to the Cloud | Nicolas Fränkel | 30m |
Nicolas Frankel
Developer Advocate @ Hazelcast
With the Cloud becoming ubiquitous, it's time to assert whether our traditional application stack is up to… | ||
| Low-Level Computing in a Cloud Native World | Rob Zuber | 31m |
Claims several concrete failures where textbook guarantees break down and shows incident timelines with root cause analysis rather than platitudes. Focus is on… | ||
| Building the Stonehenge using Gall’s law | Fabricio Buzeto | 17m |
Gall’s Law drives a practical path: start with a working simple app and evolve it. Example one: a Twitter analytics MVP on Django + MySQL grows through API… | ||
| Save The World And Money with MongoDB Data Lakes | Joe Karlsson | 15m |
Demo shows an automatic pipeline that archives cold MongoDB data to AWS S3 using Serverless Triggers/Realm and Atlas configuration, moving identifiable batches… | ||
| Getting Back to Sleep ASAP for the On-Call Developer | Tom Granot | 25m |
Walks through a specific on‑call incident, showing the actual steps taken: add runtime instrumentation to a live JVM, extract and correlate the user… | ||
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