An engineering-led talk that covers the challenges DigitalOcean encountered with a Droplet-based architecture and why we pivoted to using Kubernetes. Steven Normore, Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean, shares the benefits that a Kubernetes-based architecture provides to customers, and shares guidance on what to keep in mind as you build your business on DigitalOcean.
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About the Presenter
Steven Normore is an Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean. He builds and operates systems for production web applications. He has an education in computer science and mathematics with a focus on combinatorics and distributed systems.
Tammy Bryant, Principal SRE at Gremlin, shares how she’s built tech solutions in emerging ecosystems. From setting yourself up for success as you scale to efficiently handling millions of global users, Bryant shares her best advice for onboarding all customers, no matter what stage your business is in.
What You’ll Learn
How to set yourself up for success from the moment your onboard your first customer
Enabling your teams to build scalable and standardized solutions
Three secrets to efficiently scaling your infrastructure
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About the Presenter
Tammy Bryant (Butow) is a Principal SRE at Gremlin. Tammy loves building scalable solutions and has helped efficiently scale companies from seed round to post-IPO. Previously, Tammy was the SRE Manager for Databases and Block Storage at Dropbox where she led her teams to effectively scale from 400 million to over 500 million users in 1 year (with a small team of 5 engineers!). Tammy’s passion is working with small wise teams to scale effectively.
“During the lifetime of any company or product there comes a moment when the theoretical need for observability, whether it be exception handling, (centralized) logging, metrics, or even distributed tracing becomes a concrete need. Generally this happens after your team actually needed them, but sometimes you are lucky enough to be ahead of that moment. This talk lays out a strategy for getting your team there with some specific technology comparisons in each area. This is not a vendor talk, though we will describe pros and cons of some existing commercial and OSS solutions and how you can choose between them to meet your teams’ needs.”
Dave Worth, Engineering Manager at Strava, lays out a strategy for choosing the right tech stack depending on your business and team need. Watch as he guides you through tool sets that navigate around business constraints and regulatory concerns.
What You’ll Learn
How to determine which technologies your team needs at your level of maturity
How to choose the right tool for your team given your constraints and regulatory concerns in a given domain such as logging, instrumentation, etc.
Strategies for implementing your observability platform with the least possible pain
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About the Presenter
Dave Worth’s professional life consists of being a web and backend engineer who developed specialization in observability through building reliable distributed systems at Strava, and previously DigitalOcean. In his spare time, Dave loves cycling, jiu jitsu, and searching for another great math book to only read the first 50 pages of.
