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

Schedule: Sponsored sessions

9:25am–9:30am Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Fly the airplane (sponsored by NS1)
Location: Grand Ballroom West
Kristopher Beevers (NS1)
Average rating: ****.
(4.17, 6 ratings)
During active operational incidents, we experience very human reactions that get in the way of resolution. Approaches like Incident Command provide solid foundations for incident response. Kristopher Beevers explains how to augment Incident Command with simple tools and processes that help your team focus, communicate effectively, and respond calmly and precisely during mission-critical events. Read more.
9:50am–9:55am Tuesday, October 3, 2017
You scream for microservices orchestration; I scream for batch; we all scream for jobs as code (sponsored by BMC Software)
Location: Grand Ballroom West
Joe Goldberg (BMC Software)
Average rating: **...
(2.00, 6 ratings)
Business transformation has led us to adopt new technologies and process and cultural changes. How batch application automation is built, tested, and run must evolve to keep pace. Joe Goldberg explores jobs as code, which looks at batch application automation from an SDLC perspective—an approach that embeds expectations within a modern automation platform. Read more.
11:35am–12:15pm Tuesday, October 3, 2017
A reference architecture to automate content delivery into your CI/CD workflows (sponsored by Akamai)
Location: Murray Hill East B
Duncan McAllister (Akamai Technologies), Akshay Ranganath (Akamai Technologies)
CDN automation and pipeline integration can often be a daunting task. Too often these services are integrated late in the delivery process, traditionally in the QA or production deployment phases. Duncan McCallister and Akshay Ranganath share approaches that account for CDNs much earlier in the development lifecycle and highlight specific considerations around CI/CD pipeline integration. Read more.
1:30pm–2:10pm Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Scaling up for performance engineers: Practicing what we preach (sponsored by Micro Focus)
Location: Murray Hill East B
Oded Keret (Micro Focus)
Oded Keret shares HPE's performance testing experience, the challenges the company overcame, and the lessons learned along the way. Read more.
2:25pm–3:05pm Tuesday, October 3, 2017
FPGA-accelerated data analytics (sponsored by Intel)
Location: Murray Hill East B
Mike Strickland (Intel Corporation)
Microsoft has widely deployed field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for accelerating search, networking, and machine learning—with a little help from the company’s software expertise and its FPGA programmers. Mike Strickland explains how a single FPGA can deliver significant acceleration for multiple workloads. Read more.
3:50pm–4:30pm Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Struts 2, Equifax, and you: The story of the worst breach in history (sponsored by Contrast Security)
Location: Murray Hill East B
Arshan Dabirsiaghi (Contrast Security)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Arshan Dabirsiaghi explains what Contrast Security learned from the Struts 2 exploit and details how to stop the next attack against your production apps. Read more.
9:40am–9:50am Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Automating content delivery in a DevOps world (sponsored by Akamai)
Location: Grand Ballroom West
Craig Adams (Akamai Technologies)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
As the industry moves to distributed systems and a DevOps model, companies must adopt DevOps in order to automate CI/CD workflows and increase deployment velocity. Craig Adams explores the traditional DevOps pipeline, addresses how to think about CDN automation, and explains how Akamai is baking automation into its CDN. Read more.
10:10am–10:15am Wednesday, October 4, 2017
How real is real-user measurement? (sponsored by Catchpoint)
Location: Grand Ballroom West
Robert Castley (Catchpoint Systems)
Average rating: ****.
(4.67, 3 ratings)
Some quarters of our market believe that real-user measurement (RUM) is the end-all and be-all of customer experience management. But with the advancement of ad blockers, RUM tags are often getting blocked. Robert Castley explores the relevancy of real-user data if real users are blocking RUM tags and shares some solutions. Read more.
11:35am–12:15pm Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Accelerating cloud applications with Intel FPGAs (sponsored by Intel)
Location: Murray Hill East B
Michal Skiba (Intel Corporation)
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)—customizable digital circuits capable of processing large amounts of data incredibly quickly—have traditionally required deep expertise to program. Michal Skiba explains how Intel is helping developers accelerate their cloud applications through a software stack that greatly simplifies the use and management of FPGAs. Read more.
1:30pm–2:10pm Wednesday, October 4, 2017
What's new in Kubernetes 1.8 (sponsored by Google Cloud)
Location: Murray Hill East B
Kelsey Hightower (Google)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 3 ratings)
Kubernetes has become the go-to open source framework for managing containers and building application platforms that scale from 1 to 5,000 machines. Kelsey Hightower offers an overview of the Kubernetes 1.8 release and explains why this trend will continue. Read more.
2:25pm–3:05pm Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Fixing the internet everyday: Internet volatility, the vigilance that fixes it, and why it matters (sponsored by Oracle+Dyn)
Location: Murray Hill East B
David Belson (Oracle+Dyn)
Average rating: *....
(1.00, 1 rating)
Although we often think of “breaking the internet” in the context of a website that couldn't handle the traffic associated with a piece of viral media content, behind the scenes, critical pieces of internet infrastructure break on a regular basis. David Belson dives into some of these issues and explains how you can avoid being impacted by them. Read more.