Monitoring Kubernetes With Prometheus

Featuring Tom Wilkie

Prometheus has become the defacto monitoring system for cloud native applications, with systems like Kubernetes and Etcd natively exposing Prometheus metrics.

In this talk Tom will explore all the moving part for a working Prometheus-on-Kubernetes monitoring system, including kube-state-metrics,...

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Interactive Monitoring for Kubernetes

Featuring Tom Wilkie

The rise of “cloud native” applications (many targeting Kubernetes) has had knock-on effects on the ways development teams operate, and the complexity of monitoring your application. Order-of-magnitude increase in the number of moving parts and rate of change of the applications require us to...

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If you can drink and watch Star Wars, you can handle Kubernetes in production (Because that’s exactly what we did)

Featuring Ilya Dmitrichenko and Tom Wilkie

Before deploying Kubernetes to production, there are complex choices to make upfront: which cloud platform, which Linux distribution, what are the best tools or methods to manage and monitor your app, and more. We’ll kick off this session by going through some of these decisions, and highlight a...

Monitoring micro-services

Featuring Tom Wilkie

The rise of microservice-based applications has had many knock-on effects, not least on the complexity of monitoring your applications. Order-of-magnitude increase in the number of moving parts and rate of change of the application require us to reassess traditional monitoring techniques.

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Real-time analytics on the Twitter Firehose with Apache Cassandra

Featuring Tom Wilkie

In this workshop we will step you through constructing an application to do real time analytics on the twitter firehose, using Apache Cassandra, and its advanced, distributed counters. With this application you will be able to see what trends of mentions of common phrases, words or people.

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Acunu Analytics

Featuring Tom Wilkie

Acunu will be introducing (with live demo!) to Cassandra London their new analytics product, designed to take the hard work out of building an incremental analytics system on top of Cassandra.

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A Closer Look at Cassandra: Tom Wilkie

Featuring Tom Wilkie

Tom Wilkie presents on 'A Closer Look at Column Stores with Cassandra.'

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Real-time analytics on the Twitter Firehose with Apache Cassandra

Featuring Tom Wilkie

This workshop will involve deploying and configuring a cluster of Cassandra nodes on EC2, designing a schema, constructing a script to import data and writing a front-end to visualise the data. We will use the twitter sample firehose, which returns a random sample of all public statuses.

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Apache Cassandra: a tunably consistent, highly-availble, distributed database

Featuring Tom Wilkie

Tom Wilkie: Apache Cassandra is a next generation database originally conceived at Facebook. It combines the best bits from Google's BigTable and Amazon's Dynamo papers, has a very active community, and is widely used at many large companies. In this talk we will cover the features unique...

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Cassandra performance

Featuring Tom Wilkie

This month there will be three talks looking at changes and improvements in Cassandra over the past year. In this talk, Tom Wilkie of Acunu presents on on Cassandra performance

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The future of NOSQL and Big Data storage

Featuring Tom Wilkie

Tom Wilkie takes a whistle-stop tour of developments in NOSQL and Big Data storage, comparing and contrasting new storage engines from Google (LevelDB), RethinkDB, Tokutek and Acunu (Castle).

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Castle: Re-inventing storage for Big Data

Featuring Tom Wilkie

In this talk, Tom Wilkie looks at Castle, an open-source project, is a ground-up overhauling of RAID, file systems, and the POSIX interface

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