Ken Sipe

Lessons Learned from the 737 Max

Tuesday, 7:30 PM EST

There were two fatal crashes of the Boeing 737 Max in the fall of 2018 and spring of 2019 grounding the airplane world-wide and begging the question why? In the end, it comes down to software but there is much more to that story. Ken, the presenter in this session is in the unique position of being an instrument-rated private pilot and a software engineer with experience working with remote teams, both will provide insight into lessons we will learn as we peel back the details of these tragic events.

In this session, you will learn about aircraft types and how they affect decisions of the airline industry from pilot scheduling, plane scheduling, innovation and profits. We will see how an airplane design from 1994 causes challenges in 2018-2019. We will learn how software becomes the solution to a hardware problem of design. We will continue with plane ratings and what “in-type” means and how it plays an affect. We will broach on the topic of the USA FAA relinquishing quality standards to Boeing because of man-power and costs. Last we will hone in on what a pilot does and expects and what the MCAS system did by design. The climax of the talk will center around software requirements and how disconnected remote teams without user experience in the problem space will write exactly what you agree on… which can be lethal.

Micro-Service Orchestration Deep Dive

Wednesday, 3:15 PM EST

Leading technical organizations in micro-service based architectures all use an orchestrator in their datacenter; be it Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, Tupperware, the Borg or Omega. The dominate platforms in the open source space are Kubernetes and Mesos. This session will dive deep into the core difference including:

• Pod container lifecycle differences
• In production scaling differences
• Scheduling and orchestration management difference
• Reconciliation management
• Resource selection (affinity vs anti-affinity)
• Service discovery
  This is NOT a one is better than the other smack-down. There are pro/con consequences for each orchestrator.

Presented by an engineer that has worked for over 6 years with Docker and container orchestrators. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the Kubernetes API, scheduler, controllers and operators, and how they are different than the Mesos 2-level scheduler. The session will include how resources are managed in the cluster along with pod life-cycle management. The session will call out topics of concern regarding availability and scalability and how to best manage those concerns.

To 99.99 and Beyond

Wednesday, 5:00 PM EST

When architecting a critical system the Availability of CAP theorem becomes the most important element. Architecture measures availability in 9s with 99.99% equating less than 1 hour of unplanned downtime. This session will focus on what it takes to get there.

After establishing high availability expectations and measurements, this session will dive into what it takes to establish the highest scale possible. It includes a look at infrastructure needs with a separation between capacity and scale. A look a service discovery with pro and cons of service to service dependencies. We look at infrastructure necessary such as health checks and monitoring. The session will include a look at different layers of fault domains including cross region.

Flying through Cloud Native (CNCF)

Thursday, 9:00 AM EST

The maturing of industry projects and tools around cloud development and administration has led to the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. This new foundation is similar to the Apache Foundation in that it provides governance over projects from incubation to maturity. These projects define the current and future standards of the cloud which is important for all devops teams to be aware of. This session is a guided at jet speed tour of each project and how it fits in the eco-system.

This session will briefly cover each of the CNCF projects will a outline of:

• what the project is
• how it works
• level of maturity
• competitive landscape

The projects covered include:

• Kubernetes
• containerd
• Prometheus
• OpenTracing
• Fluentd
• rkt
• CNI
• Jaeger
• Notary
• Envoy
• CoreDNS
• Linkerd

The World is Blue/Green

Thursday, 10:45 AM EST

One of the hardest activities and strategies of DevOps team or should we say production is how to transition from one version of an application to another version of an application with cascading consequences of service dependencies. There are a number of strategies for managing this concern. In this talk, we will outline a few of them along with required conditions of the underlying infrastructure to achieve it.

This session will demonstrate on a DC/OS platform how to create a continuous delivery solution which pushes builds into production leverage blue / green deployments. Following this we will switch on the fly from blue to green and vice versa. We will stretch this concept to it's extreme and demonstrate A/B testing in a production environment.