How We Broke the World Record for Computing Digits of Pi (31.4 trillion!)

Featuring Emma Haruka Iwao

Emma and her Team have calculated 31.4 trillion digits of Pi in 2019 and broke the world record in the Pi computation. The process took about four months and 200 TiB of storage. Record-breaking Pi calculations have traditionally been done on supercomputers and special-made hardware, but they did...

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Lightning Talk: Discovery, Consul and Inversion of Control for the infrastructure

Featuring Pierre Souchay

Discovery is as hard as naming, meaning still a complicated problem in large infrastructure. Many systems exists, but few outside a given ecosystem.

Pierre and his Team have been using HashiCorp's Consul at large scale for several years (more than 250k services on 35k+ machines in 9...

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You wouldn't build your own toaster, would you?

Featuring Yan Cui

In 2011, Thomas Thwaites spent 9 months and 1187.54 and built his own toaster.

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It's Not Too Late To Learn About Kubernetes

Featuring César Tron-Lozai

In this Cloud-Native era, it is difficult not to have heard about Kubernetes (k8s). Social media are flooded with technical articles on Kubernes and it is a popular topic at many cloud-related conferences. Major internet companies, such as Reddit or AirBnQ, have been switching their production...

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Building a CloudPlatform at Nationwide Building Society

Featuring Aubrey Stearn

During this talk Aubrey will share a walk through of how Nationwide built a cloud platform, the tech, the culture, the initiatives that made it possible, and some of the valuable failures taught them new lessons.

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Keynote: Introducing Ecstasy: A Cloud Native, General Purpose Programming Language

Featuring Gene Gleyzer and Cameron Purdy

What would a programming language look like if it were explicitly designed for the world of serverless clouds, distributed computing, flash storage, 5G networks, and 64-bit multi-core devices? This is the world that we’re building applications for, but you’re hobbled by medieval languages...

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Keynote: Preparing for the Quantum Revolution

Featuring John Azariah

Quantum Computing is all over the news these days. Lots of mysterious words like superposition and entanglement, and unfamiliar physical phenomena.

How do you tell fact from fiction in the news? What do these things really mean? How does quantum computing work? Why do you care? Where will it make...

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Advanced Techniques for Building Container Images

Featuring Adrian Mouat

Docker's slogan is 'Build, Ship And Run Any App Anywhere', but in the last couple of years the 'build' part seems to have stagnated. That all changed with the release of buildkit, which is now part of Docker 19.03. During this talk Adrian will share with you a tour through the...

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Building Ephemeral Environments For Developers in Kubernetes

Featuring Jeff Knurek

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How to Break Builds and Influence People - Ordnance Survey's Ongoing Cloud Native Journey

Featuring Phil Peters and Andy Bridle

When your organisation has a lot of history, making changes to embrace new practices can be hard. Cloud adoption and DevOps can’t be successful with automation and technical tooling alone; it requires changes in how people work together and communicate. Ordnance Survey is an organisation with...

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