Cloud Native Prague Meetup #12

Hi Cloud-natives,
how was your summer? Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, right? We know, same here.
Let's meet online and learn something new and interesting about cloud-native world. Come join us, share experiences and discuss successes and f**k-ups. We prepared an exciting agenda for you :)

Google Meet link will only be visible to people who RSVP.

Who will be speaking?

DARIA GRUDZIEN - Site Reliability Engineer at Apiary (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). Daria enjoys building CLIs, automating stuff, and getting machines to play nice with each other. As part of Apiary’s SRE team, she helps product teams deliver their code to production faster, and feel confident carrying a pager. In her past life she had adventures in teaching, communication, and management—these days she’s applying those experiences to solve Software Engineering problems.

MARTIN DAMOVSKÝ - DevOps Lead at Shipmonk. Martin is a technical guy who has various experiences from development, QA, infrastructure, security and also from operations. His previous role was Head of IT Operations in Zonky. Currently, he leads DevOps activities in Shipmonk.

DONGSU PARK - Software Engineer at Kinvolk. Dongsu enjoys working on open source projects at OS-level. At Kinvolk he has been maintaining Flatcar Container Linux since it was forked from CoreOS. Before joining Kinvolk, he worked in the Infrastructure-as-a-service industry in Berlin. He enjoys doing deep-dive into unknown worlds, rather than talking. Likes cats rather than dogs.

AGENDA:

17:50
Open "online doors"

18:00 - 18:40 Don’t Panic - Building Training Programs For Oncall Engineers (Daria Grudzien)
Those of us who carry a pager usually remember the first oncall shift very well, and not always for the right reason. Being woken up at 2AM and frantically trying to regain enough consciousness to understand the error messages is exciting enough. We shouldn’t feel like we’re missing the knowledge to save our systems from dying in our arms. We can do more for our teammates than just point them towards runbooks.
In this talk, Daria will share the ongoing journey of creating a coherent, effective training plan for Apiary’s Engineers joining the 2-tier oncall rotation.

18:45 - 19:00 RDS for fast-growing startup with zero operation costs (Martin Damovský)
At the beginning of almost every startup there is a huge priority provided to your app and almost zero priority to things like DWH, Data Lakes, etc. Sooner or later people realize they need data for their reports, graphs, and forecast models. But how to provide them data in near real-time form? They just want to execute their SQL on a production database they say...Such activities are usually tolerated, but no one notices the impact of analytical queries to operation overhead - unless you use some really smart RDS engine like an AWS Aurora. Let’s take a look at how Aurora helps us in Shipmonk with our fast growth!

19:05 - 19:45 Flatcar in the world of Cluster API (Dongsu Park)
Flatcar Container Linux is a minimal Linux distro optimized for container workloads. Flatcar is being closely integrated with Cluster API, an upstream Kubernetes sub-project for provisioning and operating clusters. Dongsu will go through the benefits of the integration efforts, as well as underlying issues that he encountered doing the work. He will also go into details about how to build Flatcar images for Cluster API, to be used for deployments in Kubernetes clusters.

19:45 - ???
Networking and drinks from your fridge by your choice :)