Evergreen Fields and Resiliency in the Cloud

Join Cloud Austin for a remote Zoom meeting where we tip toe through the evergreen world of infrastructure resiliency with Nathaniel Eliot and Tim Veil!

Our agenda:

6:00 PM Meeting start, welcome, community talk & announcements
6:15 PM Speaker 1: "Evergreen Development: Recent Tech Trends and Their Implications" by Nathaniel Eliot
6:45 PM Speaker 2: "Architected for the Cloud - CockroachDB" by Tim Veil
8:00 PM Meeting ends

More about this month’s topics:

Title:
Evergreen Development: Recent Tech Trends and Their Implications

Abstract:
Recent innovations in open source software orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes, Terraform), and widespread adoption of the SRE model, have democratized a path for reliable online services. We'll explore what these changes are about, how to take advantage of them, and what this means for the shape of existing and new business in the coming years.

We'll discuss a development model called evergreen development, which relies on the capabilities these social and technical tools unlock. Evergreen uses simple, proven, and principled methods to reduce attack surfaces organization-wide. Standardized build pipelines, rapidly building immutable images that are automatically pinned to the latest stable version, can turn dependency drift from a hard-to-manage problem into an expected (and easily managed) exception. By defaulting builds to using the latest available version, security patches are more regularly deployed to production. Since the vast majority of exploits are known ones, this common sense approach can mitigate or prevent a wide variety of attacks.

We'll also discuss the non-security aspects of evergreen development, and how those might help pioneer this style of development at your organization.

Biography:
Nathan is the founder and CEO of The Greenfield Guild, a consulting firm designed to bring DevOps, Cloud Native and Open Source practices and tools to wider audiences. Throughout his two decades in the industry he has worked at companies like Bazaarvoice, Infochimps, and Steve Jackson Games as a system administrator and operations engineer where his primary focus has been on building stable and repeatable infrastructure, often from the ground up. In his off time he enjoys tinkering with blockchain and machine learning, medieval war reenactments and dancing.

Title:
Architected for the Cloud - CockroachDB

Abstract:
Built from the ground up, CockroachDB delivers on the key cloud-native primitives of horizontal scale, no single points of failure, survivability, automatable operations, and no platform-specific encumbrances.

Come to this session to learn how to store stateful data from your microservices in an always-on, ACID-Compliant SQL database. CockroachDB can run within the same K8s cluster as your microservices; it will keep running even in the case of multiple instance failures and will auto-recover itself the same way your microservice apps do. In addition, you can even extend the cluster to other K8s clusters to keep the same state for your microservices so your app can be resilient across regions.

In this session, you will learn how this technology works and will get a walk-through of how to setup a CockroachDB cluster in a hybrid or multi cloud environment so that you can test it for yourself.

Biography:
Tim Veil is the Director of Sales Engineering at Cockroach Labs. As a veteran of 20+ years in a wide range of technology companies, he's seen many technology trends come and go. Tim's SE team at Cockroach Labs is driven to help companies explore and evaluate the path from legacy models to modern microservices and cloud solutions. Tim and his family are based in Atlanta, GA

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Sponsor:
The virtual Zoom meeting space is sponsored by Rackspace Inc!

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