SCALE 19x logo
Los Angeles, CA
July 2022

Presentations

Chris Parlette
Topic: Sponsored

TriggerMesh Event-Driven Applications for Kubernetes with Knative and TriggerMesh Knative is the Kubernetes-based platform to deploy and manage modern serverless and eventing workloads. TriggerMesh's open source components extend the eventing capabilities with cloud and enterprise integrations. This hands-on session will provide an introduction to the concepts and walk through deploying and managing event-driven serverless applications on Kubernetes. Attendees will be given advanced access to a GitHub repository with instructions for deploying open source integrations on Kubernetes.

Duane O'Brien
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: General

Indeed's open source program has given over half a million dollars to open source projects, maintainers, and contributors over the past three years. We did this because we want to play an active role in helping to sustain the open source we use. While our goals are simple, the reality is that giving money to open source projects is hard. This talk will focus on sharing what we've learned from running a FOSS Contributor Fund, paying maintainers through GitHub Sponsors, and directly funding interns through Outreachy. We will propose improvements that we can make together as a community.

Joel Groen
Audience: Beginner
Topic: Observability

Open-source observability solutions have started to gravitate toward exemplars as a way to allow engineers to quickly jump between different data types. In this talk, Joel will give a brief introduction of exemplars, covering how exemplars give engineers a straightforward path to jump from a metric on a dashboard to a trace related to that metric. She will also explore some limitations around exemplars with a proposed alternative for linking metric and trace data.

Mark Waite, Alyssa Tong
Audience: Developer
Topic: General

The She Core Africa Contribution paid 16 women in Africa to contribute to sponsored open source projects for a month.  This session will share our experiences and the lessons we learned from mentoring women in Africa as they spent a month contributing to an open source project.  We'll discuss organizational challenges, mentor recruiting, technology complications, and more.

Richard Yen
Audience: Beginner
Topic: PostgreSQL

There are two types of people: people who want to use Postgres, and people who want to use Postgres well.  The latter will not be content with a poorly-performing query when they know that better performance can be achieved with some tuning, an index, and/or a query rewrite.  For developers and DBAs, this talk discusses what EXPLAIN does, how to interpret its output, what inferences can be extracted from its output, and what can be done to improve query performance.

Frits Hoogland
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: Cloud Native

In this session, we'll explore how memory allocation at the container or operating system level influences the performance of buffered disk IO. We'll also examine Linux memory management details and the different ways to perform disk IO. From there, we'll walk through a number of examples that reveal the typical dynamics of cached and non-cached IOs, as well as the differences between the two.

Daniel Stemen
Audience: Everyone
Topic: Open Medical

USC achieved a remarkable 0.27% infection rate from patient to clinical staff, an order of magnitude lower than other area hospitals. This lower infection rate is attributed to rigor in N95 quantitative fit testing and rejecting respirators with poor fit. In conjunction with Tetra Bio Distributed, USC developed the Fitra, a simple open source 3D printable respirator accessory that improved the quantitative fit of two N95 respirators on many of the 38 test volunteers. While not used by the hospital, we believe this device can help those looking for improved fit for their respirators.

Steve Pereira
Topic: DevOpsDay LA

How can you make time for real innovation and improvement? How do you know what to automate? How do you escape process prison? How can you get everyone aligned to make a difference? How do you get from where you are to your next performance target? This is an introduction to 4 valuable mapping techniques and models that build clarity, alignment, and confidence in teams using a combination of collaboration, visibility and measurement.

Eduardo Silva
Audience: Beginner
Topic: Observability

Fluent Bit and Fluentd projects have become the de facto solutions for First Mile Observability of logging and metrics data in any cloud environment. In this session you will learn about: 1) The history and future of the Fluent projects and First Mile Observability, 2) Core use cases for the technology, and 3) How Calyptia, the company founded by Fluent creators and maintainers, is taking the Fluent ecosystem to the next level, developing cloud services and providing free tools for the community.

Pep Pla
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: MySQL

Disasters happen. Somebody runs a process that renders the data in your database unusable, inconsistent, or just deleted. Wouldn't it be great to be able to recover your database to the state just before the disaster happened?

Learn the ancient Point-in-time Recovery Technique from Sensei Pep Pla. 

Well, Pep is not a sensei, and PIT is not an ancient technique, but mastering it can save your company or your job.