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Ingram Micro chooses Elastic to bolster search, sales on ecommerce site

Ingram Micro is a Fortune 100 company with $50 billion plus in revenue and operating in 56 countries. As the global leader in delivering technology and supply chain services to businesses, Ingram Micro touches about 80% of all high tech products sold around the world. Andre Dykhno, Head of Product for Global ecommerce, says ecommerce has been a large contributing factor to Ingram Micro’s modern day successes.

How Sentry Uncovers Blind Spots for Tability

With a service designed to help remote teams run more efficiently, Tability’s success relies on application reliability and deliverability to help its users keep complicated projects on schedule. This is why Tability has relied on Sentry error monitoring to identify issues in code and scale development work efficiently.

The Wellcome Sanger Institute: sharing genomic research worldwide securely with supported Ceph

A world-leading genomic research centre, the Wellcome Sanger Institute uses advanced DNA sequencing technology for large-scale studies that surpass the capabilities of many other organisations. Among other works, the Institute is currently heading the UK-wide Darwin Tree of Life Project to map the genetic code of 60,000 complex species.

HAProxyConf 2019 - Building a Service Mesh at Criteo with Consul and HAProxy by Pierre Souchay

At Criteo, we have been working on building a tight integration between HashiCorp Consul and HAProxy. In this talk, we will explain how we provision our HAProxy instances dynamically using Consul Connect, a new service mesh technology that allows HAProxy to talk to its peers from machine-to-machine without a traditional load balancer. We will detail how we are able to create a service with DNS, add load balancing, and configure SSL certificates in mere seconds. Since Criteo is working actively on enabling HAProxy with Consul Connect, we will explain the challenges of scaling Service Mesh architectures for large infrastructures.

How To Use & Leverage The Citrix End-User Activity Report

* Originally published in 2018, reposted as COVID-19 drives increase need for tracking remote worker activity and performance. A major government agency enacted a new policy allowing employees to work from home using Citrix during times of inclement weather. This policy introduced a new visibility challenge for the organization. Read on to discover how they fixed the visibility gaps with the Citrix End-User Activity Report from Goliath.

HAProxyConf 2019 - How OUI.sncf Built Its CDN with HAProxy by Antonin Mellier and Nicolas Besin

Oui.sncf sells tickets and passes for rail travel around Europe. We operate the #1 French e-commerce website with more than 83 million travel products sold and more than 12 million unique visitors per month. We’ve been using HAProxy since 2009. When we decided to build our own CDN solution in 2015, we knew we’d include HAProxy as a main component. In this talk, we will show you how HAProxy is integrated into our CDN infrastructure and how we use it daily to manage, update, configure, and troubleshoot our infrastructure.

HAProxyConf 2019 - Inspect, Control, Report: HAProxy as the SRE's Door Man by Daniel Schneller

CenterDevice offers secure document storage and sharing with OCR, full-text indexing and automatic versioning. Our SREs use HAProxy to gain insights into the usage of our services, diagnose issues, and throttle or reject requests based on HAProxy ACLs. In this talk, you will see how we generate HAProxy configuration files using templates. We will describe our custom log format and demonstrate how we integrate HAProxy data with Kibana.

How Domotz streamlined provisioning of IoT devices

As the number of IoT devices scale, the challenges of provisioning and keeping them up to date in the field increases. Domotz, who manufacture an all-in-one, network monitoring and management device for enterprise IoT networks, found themselves with this challenge that was further compounded by their rapid software release cadence. One of the most crucial and difficult aspects for Domotz to solve was the delivery of automatic updates to the tens of thousands of devices deployed.

How Aumni Keeps Errors out of "Userland"

Different development teams exercise different production philosophies. These philosophies usually stem from greater company direction and culture but are guided by the experience of technical leadership. Aumni has built a unique technology solution to unlock data insights into investment auditing and due diligence for VCs. They need to remain nimble and develop great code (areas 1 and 2) but reduce the probability of user-facing errors and the time spent detecting and fixes new issues (area 3).

HAProxyConf 2019 - From 1.5 into the Future by Christian Platzer

At Willhaben, we run Austria’s largest classified advertising marketplace. We started using HAProxy due to our need to move to an all-HTTPS environment. Since then, we’ve leveraged HAProxy for geo-redundancy, HTTP/2, integration with Kubernetes, and blocking suspicious activity. In this talk, I will explain how we gradually shifted from basic HAProxy functionality to our current deployment, and will also describe where we encountered trouble in our production environment and how we overcame it. We are currently serving 5-6 gigabits per second of peak traffic via HAProxy, with about 20k requests per second.