Build & maintain complex distributed systems
October 1–2, 2017: Training
October 2–4, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Alexander Rukletsov

Alexander Rukletsov
Distributed Systems Engineer, Mesosphere

Alex Rukletsov is an Apache committer and Mesos PMC member at Mesosphere. He loves making programs run faster, reducing the cognitive load of code, and creating the right abstractions. In a previous life, Alex segmented medical images and investigated the behavior of human vessels at several German research institutes. His areas of interests include distributed systems, object recognition, and probabilistic and heuristic algorithms.

Sessions

11:35am–12:15pm Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Health checking: A not-so-trivial task in the distributed containerized world
Orchestration, Scheduling, and Containers
 Location: Beekman
Alexander Rukletsov (Mesosphere)
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Application health checking and probing have existed since the dawn of computer science. Usually seen as a trivial task, health checking becomes more involved when applied to distributed cloud-native apps. Alexander Rukletsov discusses the challenges and perils of modern health checking and shares lessons learned during the revamp of the Apache Mesos health checks subsystem. Read more.