Kubernetes

The second Women in Infrastructure event will be centered around Kubernetes, as KubeCon is a month away and it is being held in Seattle! Come by and hear from engineers from Microsoft, Heptio, and Buoyant about how these technologies are used in practice.

Lyft will be providing the space! Microsoft and Buoyant will be providing food and drinks!

• We are allowing anyone to come to this event, but please be respectful. Also if this event fills up and you identify as male, please consider given up your spot for a woman who would like to attend. Thanks!

Schedule:

6:30-7:00 Doors Open
7:00-8:20 Talks! (15-20 minutes each)
8:20-9:00 Social & Networking Time

Speakers:
Speaker 1: Lena Hall (Microsoft)
Talk Title: Data-intensive systems on Kubernetes

Talk Description: Distributed databases, stateful stream processing workloads, caches, and machine learning frameworks often require persistence for storing data, operation progress, and more. Managing state while running systems like Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, Redis, or Tensorflow on Kubernetes is different than with VMs or physical servers.

We can use foundational Kubernetes concepts to get those systems up and running. But up and running isn’t always equal to operating correctly. We will go over best practices for managing data-intensive systems on Kubernetes, existing challenges, as well as solutions (e.g. CRDs, custom controllers, operators) and a possible future.

You will learn about operational things to take into account even if you haven't worked with data systems systems on Kubernetes before.

Bio: Alena Hall is a senior software engineer and a developer advocate at Microsoft working on Azure, where she focuses on large-scale systems for distributed data processing and storage. Previously, she was a senior software engineer at Microsoft Research. Alena has more than 10 years of experience in the software engineering industry with a focus on distributed cloud programming, real-time system architecture, high scale and performance, big data analysis, data science, functional programming, and machine learning. Alena spoke at conferences like OSCON, Velocity, QCon, GOTO Chicago, DockerCon, and more. She is an elected member of the F# Software Foundation’s board of trustees. Alena holds a master’s degree in computer science and information technology.

Speaker 2: Amy Codes (Heptio)
Talk Title: HTTP vs. gRPC

Talk Description: This talk will compare and contrast HTTP and gRPC calls, and use cases for both API calls. If time permits, we can also discuss transformations between the 2 styles. Code examples will be written in Go.

Bio: Amy Chen is a software engineer at Heptio, a company dedicated to making Kubernetes easier to use. She is passionate about open source, containers, orchestration tools, Go, and salsa dancing.

In her free time, Amy runs a youtube channel called Amy Codes where she talks about technical and non-technical aspects of being a software engineer. She aims to make the container and infrastructure industry more accessible by sharing her learning process and resources through video.

You can follow her internet shenanigans here:

https://www.youtube.com/AmyCodes
https://twitter.com/TheAmyCode
https://www.instagram.com/theamycode/

Speaker 3: Risha Mars
Talk Title: Debugging Services in Kubernetes With Linkerd 2.0

Talk Description: Kubernetes is a widely used orchestration platform, increasingly in support of microservices architectures. Developers are being tasked with managing the development, deployment, and production of services atop Kubernetes. While Kubernetes can automatically keep your service up in the event of failure or a software crash, it doesn’t provide visibility into how your service is behaving.

Bio: Risha is a Software Engineer at Buoyant and works on the Linkerd2 control plane, writing APIs, CLIs and dashboards using Go and Javascript. Previously, she worked on the Ads team at Twitter, on internal ads tooling and dashboards.