Engineer for the future of Cloud
June 10-13, 2019
San Jose, CA
Thomas Jackson

Thomas Jackson
Head of Core Infrastructure, Wish

Thomas Jackson is the head of core and data infrastructure at Wish, where he’s responsible for online serving infrastructure (service discovery, container orchestration, databases, etc.). In his decade-plus of experience in information technology, he’s cultivated a specialty in high-performance, distributed, and reliable systems. Among his accomplishments, he was the founding member of the traffic SRE team at LinkedIn, where he built and scaled the company’s edge infrastructure.

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Consul is a well-known and widely used service discovery mechanism. Although Kubernetes has a built-in service discovery mechanism, Wish has standardized on using Consul. Thomas Jackson explains how Wish is leveraging Kubernetes and integrating it with its infrastructure. Read more.