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Improving a Distributed System Post-Incident Julius Zerwick Failover Conf 2020

May 5, 2020 By Gremlin In Gremlin
In this session, we will dive into a case study of how a team can recover & improve a distributed system after a major incident. Distributed systems are more prone to failure than other systems due to their incredible complexity and scale, and incidents are a fact of life with these systems.
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Built-in Application Resiliency Allan Shone  Failover Conf 2020

May 5, 2020 By Gremlin In Gremlin
When starting a new application build, starting with an eye on resiliency prevents headaches down the line. There are many ways to tackle this, especially within different language environments and system eco-systems, but there are many shared across them all. Getting a high-level take-away list to use as a reference later, from a dive into them during this talk, viewers will learn how to develop software that is more fault-tolerant and able to with-stand impact of failures.
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Pitfalls in Measuring SLOs  Danyel Fisher & Liz Fong-Jones  Failover Conf 2020

May 5, 2020 By Gremlin In Gremlin
We built support for SLOs (Service Level Objectives) against our event store so we could monitor our own complex distributed system. In the process of doing so, we learned that there were a number of important aspects that we didn’t expect from carefully reading the SRE workbook. This talk is the story of the missing pieces, unexpected pitfalls, and how we solved those problems. We’d like to share what we learned and how we iterated on our SLO adventure.
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Human-in-the-Loop DevOps  Taylor Barnett  Failover Conf 2020

May 5, 2020 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Within DevOps, automation has become a North Star. We want to automate the toil away, but the goal of "no toil" is unattainable. Many runbooks can only be partially automated because they still require human intervention and insights. Human-in-the-Loop DevOps is the idea that we can benefit from automating toil while still embracing the human interaction in specific tasks.
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The Future of DevOps is Resilience Engineering  Amy Tobey  Failover Conf 2020

May 5, 2020 By Gremlin In Gremlin
For more than a decade, many of us have been working to bring Devops to organizations around the world. We’ve made amazing progress, but there’s so much more to do. Now that we have continuous integration & deployment widespread and developers are taking more ownership of production, what’s next? Amy will talk about what Resilience Engineering is, how it relates to devops, and how she thinks it gives us the science and research we need to take our organizations to the next level of robustness while remaining agile and growing our ability to care for the people around us.
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Virtana Names Carahsoft Federal Distributor for Entire Product Portfolio

May 5, 2020 By James Bettencourt In Virtana

SAN JOSE, Ca. and RESTON, Va. – May 5, 2020 – Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced that Virtana, the leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, has named Carahsoft its Federal distributor for its entire portfolio.

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Monitor Windows containers on Google Cloud with Datadog

May 4, 2020 By Mallory Mooney In Datadog

Many organizations already use Docker to containerize their Windows applications and often run mixed Windows and Linux container environments to support complex architectures. With Kubernetes’s support for deploying clusters with Windows nodes, organizations can leverage the orchestration platform to easily automate container provisioning, networking, scaling, and more for their Windows applications.

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Monitor Sidekiq with Datadog

May 4, 2020 By Kai Xin Tai In Datadog

Sidekiq is a Ruby framework for background job processing. Developers can use Sidekiq to asynchronously run computationally intensive tasks—such as bulk email sending, payment processing, and data importing—to help speed up the response times of their applications. If you’re using Sidekiq Pro or Enterprise, Datadog’s integration helps you monitor the progress of your jobs and the applications that depend on them, all in a single platform.

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