West LA DevOps: The 4th Meetup

WHEN

October 24, 2019
Doors open at 6pm

WHERE

GumGum HQ
1314 7th St.
4th floor
Santa Monica, 90401

ORGANIZERS

Corey Gale (DevOps Manager @ GumGum)
Brian Tai (DevOps Engineer @ AuditBoard)

AGENDA

6pm: Doors open, food, beer and wine served
6:30pm: Industry updates
6:45pm: Tech talk #1: Dancing with Data and Distributed Systems by Jasmine Dahilig
7pm: Tech talk #2: Service Mesh for Everyone by Jake Lundberg
7:45pm: Closing notes & mingling

TECH TALK #1

Dancing with Data and Distributed Systems

By Jasmine Dahilig, Software Engineer at HashiCorp

The faster you can ship your data workflows, the faster you can make profitable business insights. When designing distributed systems for data workflows, developers should focus on rapid prototyping for elastic infrastructure. In this talk, we will discuss how every data science problem can be mapped (or reduced) to a software scalability problem, and demo a sample data pipeline with Terraform, Vault, Consul & Nomad.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Jasmine Dahilig is a software engineer at HashiCorp and contributes to the Nomad project.

TECH TALK #2

Service Mesh for Everyone

By Jake Lundberg, Staff Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp

Application delivery has changed drastically over the past 10 years with the proliferation of cloud operations, container based deployments and scheduling frameworks like Nomad, Mesos, and Kubernetes. This shift has solved some problems and introduced new ones, particularly around dynamic service discovery/routing, dynamic security configuration and observability. Further, it is rare that developers and operations teams are able to migrate all of their applications at once, creating challenging design decisions around how to integrate the old ways with the new. This talk will give a high level overview of how Service Mesh concepts can help solve some of these challenges. We’ll then discuss how HashiCorp Consul enables teams to adopt Service Mesh in heterogeneous operating environments.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Jake Lundberg is a Staff Solutions Engineer for HashiCorp. He has a deep background in Systems Administration and DevOps engineering and was an early adopter of cloud automation and container based operations. He’s lived through taking Kubernetes to production and has operational experience integrating Kubernetes and Consul.

PARKING

Option A: Santa Monica Library Parking Garage

An underground parking structure can be accessed from 7th Street between Santa Monica Blvd. and Arizona Ave. The first thirty minutes are free. Rates are $1 per hour for the first two hours and thirty minutes. After that, the rate is $1 per thirty minutes. Weekdays the daily maximum is $10. Weekends the daily maximum is $5. Parking on level P1 is restricted to stays of three hours or less. Parking spaces for those displaying disabled placards or plates are on P1. Visitors parking for three hours or longer should park on levels P2 or P3. The Library and GumGum do not provide validation for parking.

Option B: Street-level parking lot. A limited number of metered one-hour parking spaces are available. Entry to the lot is from 7th Street.

Option C: Meters. Located on 7th street outside our office.