cloud/edge computing

Adam Storm, Director of Engineering at Cockroach Labs, introduces the concept of multi-region databases, the use cases for deploying them, and the tradeoffs to consider.  He describes how CockroachDB addresses some of the hardest problems related to multi-region databases, how its geo-partitioned data feature works, and how it supports serverless technologies.

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Adam Storm on Multi-Region Databases

Keith McClellan, Director of Partner Solutions Engineering at Cockroach Labs, reviews the results of the 2022 Cloud Report, which benchmarks the three most popular public clouds:  AWS, GCP, and Azure. Keith describes the testing methodology that was used, some of the surprises from the report, and highlights key areas of the benchmark that CTOs should pay attention to when picking a cloud provider.

Keith McClellan: Results of the the 2022 Cloud Report

Martijn Verburg, Principal Engineering Group Manager for Java at Microsoft, describes how the company runs 2 million JVMs in production across a wide range of its internal systems, including those that support Minecraft, LinkedIn, and Azure.  He describes the different kinds of Java workloads and deployment models that Azure supports, new monitoring and observability tools, and the various Java community initiatives that Microsoft is a part of, including Eclipse Adoptium, the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile working groups, and others.

Martijn Verburg: How Microsoft Azure Supports Modern Java Workloads

Responsiveness is much more than a front-end web app issue. Tyler Jewell will challenge you to think differently about how to achieve elasticity, agility, and resilience. Learn how to transform cloud-native and multi-cloud architectures so you can guarantee responsiveness for your microservices and distributed systems. Listen now.

Reimagining the concept of responsive apps

Tyler Jewell, CEO of Akka and creator of the Developer-Led Landscape, shares how agentic AI is reshaping system architecture. He discusses real-world engineering challenges, scaling to 2M TPS, balancing cost vs. quality, and the role of actor-based concurrency in managing complexity. Tyler also highlights how Akka contributes to agentic AI and what’s next for building resilient, scalable AI systems.

Building Agentic AI Systems at Scale: Insights from Akka CEO Tyler Jewell

Tyler McMullen, CTO at Fastly - an edge compute platform - talks about some of the challenges and opportunities associated with 'edge computing', where the technology is headed, and how an organizations content delivery network (CDN) can be an integral part of their Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process.  He describes some of the most common challenges associated with load balancing, how sites like airBnB and Twitter might configure their CDNs, and how Fastly's product is evolving to support the future of edge compute.  

At Fastly, Tyler is responsible for the system architecture and leads the company’s technology vision. As part of the founding team, Tyler built the first versions of Fastly’s Instant Purging system, API, and Real-time Analytics.

Tyler McMullen on the Future of Edge Compute

Joining us this week is Erica Windisch, Founder/CTO at IOpipe, a high fidelity metrics and monitoring service which allows you to see inside AWS Lambda functions for better insights into the daily operations and development of severless applications.       

 Highlights
•	Intro of AWS Lambda and IOpipe 
•	Discussion of Observability and Opaqueness of Serverless 
•	Edge Computing Definition and Vision 
•	End of Operating Systems and Abstraction Boundaries

Erica Windisch on Observability of Serverless, Edge Computing, and Abstraction Boundaries

Owen Garrett, Head of Products @NGINX, talks about some of the biggest challenges companies are facing transitioning from monoliths to microservices. He describes the proxy model (Kubernetes-Ingress controller model), delves into why and when you might need to use a service mesh and reviews the various service mesh products on the market today.  Finally, he introduces NGINX Unit, a dynamic web and application server – configured via API – that is designed to run applications in multiple languages. https://unit.nginx.org/	

Owen Garrett leads the product and go-to-market strategy for NGINX’s web acceleration and application delivery technologies. Owen has over 15 years of experience in software engineering and product leadership at companies such as Zeus and Riverbed, and holds a number of patents in the field.

Owen Garrett: Pragmatic Microservices, Service Mesh, and NGINX Unit

Joining us this week is Jordan Rinke, Principal Software Engineer, Walmart Labs. Jordan offers his views on various technologies and open source projects as it relates to the scale and connectivity issues faced by Walmart.  

 Highlights
•	Technical Gaps in Kubernetes Technologies and Installer Issues
•	Tooling and Orchestration Focus for Kubernetes and Other Tools
•	Core OS Model for Bootstrapping Kubernetes
•	Discussion on Immutability: Middle Ground for Jordan
•	Edge Computing – Emerging markets lead to disconnected edge sites
•	Data location challenges in edge and cloud services 
•	Skills issues for medium sized clusters

Jordan Rinke on Open Source, Kubernetes, & Edge Computing

Anil Kumar – The Database Side of Microservices

In this interview, Charles Elkan, Head of Machine Learning at Goldman Sachs, explains how financial services firms benefit from AI, how Goldman Sachs is applying it to their business, and highlights industry breakthroughs that are allowing AI to progress.  

He delves into the mechanics of deep learning, explains the difference between superficial and subtle understanding, and talks about how NLP methods have been successful at Goldman Sachs. Finally, he describes how much further AI can realistically develop to meet the needs of financial firms.

Applying AI: The Present and Future for Financial Services Firms

In this interview, Kevin Stanley, Industrial IoT Practice Lead at Object Computing,  and Jordan Walker, Senior Software Engineer at Object Computing, talk about different strategies for implementing IoT on the Edge along with the core components of an Edge IoT infrastructure.  They also talk about the impact of machine learning on IoT, using Google Coral to train neural networks, and the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol for the internet of things.

Related Resource:

Machine Learning in Practice: Using Artificial Intelligence to Read Analog Gauges: https://objectcomputing.com/resources/publications/sett/june-2019-using-machine-learning-to-read-analog-gauges

Kevin Stanley and Jordan Walker: IoT and Machine Learning on the Edge

Liam Crilly, Director of Product Management at NGINX, talks about the impact microservices is having on API gateways and how a CI/CD pipeline should interface with API gateways.  He describes how API gateways help with messaging and event-driven architectures, how they integrate with IoT devices and real-time streaming, and shares some API trends he expects to see in 2020.

Liam Crilly on the Future of API Gateways

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Tyler McMullen on the Future of Edge Compute

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