AWS User Group (NOVEMBER)

Hey everyone,

this time we're hosted at the ArangoDB GmbH Office in Cologne with the following talks/agenda:

• 18:30h – meet up, socialising, food & drinks

• 19:00h – Intro

• 19:15h – Ewout Prangsma: “Running a Managed Service on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service”

For the past year, my team and I built a managed cloud service for ArangoDB which launched just a couple of days ago. Important implementation detail of ArangoDB Oasis (that is how we named it) is Kubernetes, since we use it to run all our database instances and network of services. This meant getting very familiar with managed Kubernetes offerings of various cloud providers.

In this talk, I’d like to share our experiences with EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) on AWS and especially related to provisioning (and removing) managed EKS clusters using code alone.
Spoiler alert: this involves much more AWS resources then you would like to imagine.

Ewout is the main architect and team-lead of ArangoDB Oasis. He is an all-round senior software developer / entrepreneur who loves to solve complex technical problems to make life easier for real end users. Having seen lots of programming languages, he prefers to use whatever language fits the problem at hand. Within ArangoDB he worked on various distributed systems like datacenter-to-datacenter replication, the ArangoDB starter, Go driver as well as the Kubernetes Operator.

In his spare time he likes to work on amazing model train experiences with his fellow members of “Team Zwitserleven”.

• 19:45h – short break food & drinks

• 20:00h – Hanna Prinz: “Service Mesh - Was die neue Infrastruktur für Microservices taugt” (Talk is in German)

Die Funktionen, die wir rund um unsere Microservices “nebenbei” implementieren, haben ein wenig Überhand genommen. Genau das verspricht ein Service Mesh zu ändern. Es hebt Monitoring, Resilienz, Routing und Sicherheit in die Infrastruktur.
Wir müssen reden – über sinnvolle Anwendungsfälle für Service Mesh Technologien wie Istio und Linkerd und über den Preis: Ressourcenverbrauch und Performance.

Hanna Prinz hat bei INNOQ ihre Masterarbeit über Service Meshes geschrieben. Davor hat sie an der HTW Berlin Seminare zum Einstieg ins Programmieren gegeben und als Full-Stack-Developer an Apps, Front- and Backends entwickelt - bis sie den Herausforderungen des Betriebs begegnete und nicht widerstehen konnte. Seitdem beschäftigt sie sich mit allen Themen im Bereich Automatisierung und DevOps wie Kubernetes, CI/CD und Service Meshes.

• 20:30h – socialising & drinks