GOTOpia February 2021
2021-02-09..2021-02-11
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A Beginner's Guide to eBPF Programming with Go | Liz Rice | 36m |
Shows practical eBPF workflow: C eBPF programs compiled with clang, user code in Go using libbpfgo, and kernel insertion via the bpf syscall plus… | ||
| The Automation Challenge: Kubernetes Operators vs Helm Charts | Ana-Maria Mihalceanu | 30m |
Demonstrates using Helm to package a Quarkus microservice plus Postgres, running commands like helm create and helm install + postgres and landmark deployed… | ||
| Organization: A Tool for Software Architects | Eberhard Wolff | 35m |
Argues that organization is a design lever: define team boundaries that map to domain responsibilities, create cross‑functional teams owning code, data and… | ||
| Scale, Flow and Microservices | James Lewis | 37m |
Argues that scaling follows measurable power laws: mammal metabolism ~0.75 exponent, company revenue ~0.85 exponent, while Amazon/AWS shows 1.15 superlinear… | ||
| Platform Engineering as a (Community) Service | Nicki Watt | 39m |
Argues that successful platforms combine tech and human support with executive buy in and real cloud experience, not just Kubernetes hype; recommends platform… | ||
| You're Testing WHAT? | Gojko Adzic | 39m |
Five concrete rules and experiments: five rules for test automation, an open‑source visual diff tool (appraise.qa) that runs thousands of end‑to‑end screenshot… | ||
| How Google SRE and Developers Work Together | Christof Leng | 32m |
Google SRE describes a concrete engagement model: SRE is a separate org funded by pay by headcount, not automatic support, and uses baseline/assisted/full… | ||
| Let’s Make It Easy | Woody Zuill | 37m |
Argues that persistent workplace pain points are symptoms not root problems, backed by a quick exercise that finds ~50 issues in minutes and a personal list of… | ||
| How Microteams Change the Way We Collaborate. Again | Sander Hoogendoorn | 47m |
Claim: reorganize into domains, streams and microteams of 2–3 people that pick one small problem, build a tiny feature, and ship it immediately. Implementation… | ||
| GraphQL Anywhere - Our Journey With GraphQL Mesh & Schema Stitching | Uri Goldshtein | 21m |
GraphQL Mesh converts OpenAPI, gRPC, SQL and other sources into usable GraphQL schemas so clients get a single typed graph without changing providers; it… | ||
| Practical Cloud Native: What Works, What Doesn't | Sarah Wells | 36m |
Company moves from VMs to AWS, containers and Kubernetes, cutting provisioning from weeks to minutes and achieving 3,000 releases in four weeks (roughly 30,000… | ||
| Cloud Native Development Without the Toil | Daniel Bryant | 35m |
Argues safety-first delivery unlocks speed and shows concrete practices: use artifact syncing (Skaffold or Tilt) to push class-level changes to a remote… | ||
| Incident Analysis Before Chaos Engineering | Nora Jones | 25m |
Builds and runs a production chaos platform used at Netflix to inject failures, discovers the real value comes from mining past incidents to prioritize… | ||
| Deprecating Simplicity - Building a New Test Culture | Casey Rosenthal | 22m |
Research from 2019 shows continuous verification as a discipline that runs experiments and chaos engineering alongside CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, bash scripts… | ||
| Streaming with Structure | Katherine Stanley | 38m |
Shows how schemas stop consumer breakage by centralizing event blueprints in a registry instead of embedding them in every message, and compares formats and… | ||
| Dungeons, Dragons & Developers | Matt Brunt | 37m |
Compares tabletop roles to engineering roles and claims teams with mixed skills beat a roomful of lone experts: avoid four competing “wizards,” prefer a… | ||
| Risks in Systems Design: Chaos Engineering in Apps & Cloud Security | Crystal Hirschorn | 30m |
An industry analysis of 524 incidents finds 48% internal incidents and high‑profile cases like SolarWinds show attacker plus supply‑chain risk; practical steps… | ||
| The DiRT on Chaos Engineering at Google | Jason Cahoon | 33m |
Google reports 15 years of Disaster Resiliency Testing with thousands of planned experiments and teams now running tens of thousands of tests per year to prove… | ||
| Hybrid Intelligence: First Rate Humans, Not Second Class Robots | Jacob Sherson | 44m |
Argues for hybrid intelligence where humans and AI continuously learn from each other, not just humans-in-the-loop. Shows eSoft image pipeline with an… | ||
| Fireside Chat About OAuth 2.0 | Aaron Parecki, Eric Johnson | 29m |
Quick, concrete take: OAuth 2.0 is about granting API access, not identity (OpenID Connect adds identity), JWT is a token format not OAuth, and OAuth 1… | ||
| From Experimentation to Products: The Production Machine Learning Journey | Robert Crowe | 38m |
Describes how Google moves experiments to production using TFX + Kubeflow pipelines and Apache Beam for distributed processing, with concrete components… | ||
| Combining Chaos, Observability & Resilience to get Chaos Engineering | Yury Nino | 25m |
Chaos engineering is presented as an equation: observability + resilience = actionable chaos experiments. The talk defines resilience as four capabilities —… | ||
| Kickstarting Your Azure Pipeline with Templates | Cosmin Mitescu, Wouter Ligtenberg, Florin Ioanitescu | 29m |
ING builds a library of Azure pipeline templates that compile, test, publish to Artifactory and deploy JVM apps, with Azure DevOps pipelines invoked from a… | ||
| Leadership During Chaos | Ranganathan "Ranga" Balashanmugam | 36m |
Claims that chaos engineering grew from hunting strategies into deliberate software practice and maps leadership styles to orchestra, marine and rowing models… | ||
| Looking Back to Look Forward | Adrian Hornsby | 22m |
Chaos engineering proves itself as a training method that builds operational intuition, exposes monitoring blind spots, and shortens recovery time by running… | ||
| Prerequisites for Chaos Engineering | Courtney Nash | 23m |
Lists four concrete prerequisites: instrumentation (metrics/logs) to detect control vs experimental differences, social buy-in and alignment so people know and… | ||
| Improving Business Resiliency with Chaos Engineering | Olga Hall | 47m |
Prime Video adds chaos experiments into release pipelines, running automated scaling experiments three times a week in production and combining load, stress… | ||
| Embarking on Your Security Journey | Seth Vargo | 34m |
Starts from real mistakes like FTP-to-production and discovers that version control plus codified frameworks speed safe deployment, automation (linters, static… | ||
| Making Chaos Engineering Boring: Debunking Myths Hampering Adoption | Miko Pawlikowski | 23m |
Argues Chaos Engineering must become routine to reduce outages and on‑call pages, cites a LinkedIn poll where over 50% name buy‑in as the main blocker, and… | ||
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