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https://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Native-Computing-Linz/events/273726815/

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- Denis Jannot is the Director of Field Engineering at Solo.io, a company building application networking solutions for the edge and service mesh. Denis is a passionate engineer who has spent his career in technical roles working directly with customers and users in architecting and adopting technologies like Object Storage, Big Data, Containerization, Service Mesh into their infrastructure. He enjoys sharing what he learns with the community and can be found creating demos, writing blogs, and speaking at events.

- János Pásztor is a software engineer who loves writing. János have been in the industry for over 10 years, and likes to share what he have learned. He also lectures at FH Campus Wien, being one of the responsible of FH Cloud Computing Fall 2020 (https://fh-cloud-computing.github.io/). If you want to know more about him visit https://pasztor.at

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Denis Jannot - The challenges of exposing and connecting microservices

In this presentation, Denis will cover the common challenges people are facing when they expose and connect micro services.
He will review the different options to expose services running on Kubernetes (Ingress vs API gateway) and to manage service to service communications (API gateway vs Service Mesh).
He will also discuss the additional complexity introduced when services are spread across multiple environments (multiple Kubernetes clusters, Service Meshes, ...).
Finally, Denis will introduce several Open Source projects (Gloo, Service Mesh Hub, Web Assembly, ...) which they are working on at Solo.io to tackle those challenges.


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János Pásztor - Custom Autoscaling with Prometheus, Grafana, and a little bit of code

Some cloud providers give you the ability to automatically scale up or down based on simple metrics like CPU or memory usage. What happens if you need a complex logic? What if you need custom factors like combining CPU, RAM, and disk usage? Or application metrics?

Prometheus gives us a wonderful way to gather metrics from a varying number of machines using service discovery, and Grafana an easy to use way to create graphs and alerts. Let's combine these to build a custom, self contained and testable autoscaler for our cloud platform.

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Agenda:
5pm - Welcome
5.10pm - Denis Jannot
6.pm - János Pásztor
6.50pm - Closing remarks
7pm - End

Meetup will be streamed on Youtube and Q&A will be done via discord.
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSELZztLD8TeEEKSKWFp-A
Discord: https://discord.gg/MgM5BGV


https://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Native-Computing-Linz/events/273726815/

A slight change in schedule for October - Join us virtually on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, October 21st for a guide to Envoy from Lawrence Gadban of solo.io!

Kubernetes and Service Mesh are patterns in building new applications that decouple dependencies between the application code, infrastructure and how the services should communicate. With microservices, the network becomes critical for a properly functioning application teams need to consider both North / South traffic (incoming requests from end users to the cluster) and East / West (intra cluster) communication between the services. In this talk we'll dig into the role of Envoy as the modern data plane for north/south and east/west traffic, their integration points, the respective control planes, and areas of extensibility.

https://www.meetup.com/orchestructure/events/273409528/

We're bringing WebAssembly to you this fall with another another virtual Meetup! Streaming is sponsored by solo.io, also one of this months presenters.

More details at https://www.meetup.com/wasmsf/events/273039707/.

Speaker: Lawrence Gadban

Kubernetes has changed how we design and deploy applications, and with that how we network these services together and expose them to external clients and end users. Enter Envoy, a popular proxy that is driving the modern app data plane and is the basis for many service meshes. However this also causes a bit of confusion between proxies, gateways and service mesh. In this talk we'll cover the role of Envoy at the edge and in the mesh, functionality of the proxy, how they interact together and are different, control plane interactions, and how to extend it.

In this season's meetup, we wanted to go back to WebAssembly and the kind of extensions the community is building. We have some guest speakers and Solo.io engineers on had to chat about WebAssembly for Envoy Proxy.

Thanks to our guest speakers for sharing what they've built:
* Blake Covarrubias - Sr Product Manager for Consul @HashiCorp
* Bryant Hagadorn - Security Engineer @IBM

Questions, comments or have a wasm module to share? DM me on https://slack.solo.io at Betty Junod

Download the presentation
https://speakerdeck.com/soloio/online-meetup-number-6-july-14-2020

Learn More
https://www.solo.io
https://webassemblyhub.io

Get Involved:
GitHub https://github.com/solo-io/wasme/issues
Review the OCI image spec https://github.com/solo-io/wasm-image-spec
Project envoy-wasm https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy-wasm

SDK
* https://github.com/proxy-wasm/
* https://github.com/solo-io/proxy-runtime/

Learn more:
https://speakerdeck.com/soloio/online-meetup-number-5-march-5-2020
https://www.solo.io
https://slack.solo.io

Featured guest speakers this meetup are Kevin DeLorey and Brian Vandre from Frasca Interntational, Inc. Kevin DeLorey is a Software Architect and Brian Vandre is a Lead Software Engineer at Frasca working on their adoption of Kubernetes, Gloo, Linkerd, Prometheus, Grafana, and Sealed Secrets.

About Frasca International:
For more than 60 years Frasca International, Inc. has been building flight simulations of all levels for companies and flight schools all over the world. To combat the ongoing pilot shortage, Frasca’s current goal is to make flight training more accessible to instructors and students by modernizing our tech stack and starting with bringing our simulators to the cloud.

In the last meetup of 2019, we have two talks from the team on recent announcements and new projects.

Autopilot -- an SDK to build opinionated operators for service mes
https://docs.solo.io/autopilot/latest

WebAssembly Hub -- a hub to build, publish, discover and deploy customizations and extensions for Envoy Proxy and Envoy based tools like Gloo and Istio
https://webassemblyhub.io/

Join the community https://slack.solo.io
Slack channels #web-assembly-hub and #autopilot are available for questions and discussion. DM to request a future meetup topic

See you in 2020 - have a happy new year!

Panel discussion between Christian Posta (Global Field CTO at Solo.io) and Adam Zimman (VP of Platform at LaunchDarkly) at the Test in Production Meetup.

If you’re interested in joining us at a future Meetup, you can sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/Test-in-Production/

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Learn more about LaunchDarkly:
Website: https://launchdarkly.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/launchdarkly
Twitter: https://twitter.com/launchdarkly

About LaunchDarkly:
Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers. With the ability to gradually release new software features to any segment of users on any platform, DevOps teams can standardize safe releases at scale, accelerate their journey to the cloud and collaborate more effectively with business teams.

Today, LaunchDarkly deploys peaks of 20 trillion feature flags each day, and that number continues to grow. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year list, and the Enterprise Tech 30 list.

Scott Scranton presents on how distributed microservices introduce new challenges: failure modes are harder to anticipate and resolve. In this session, he presents a “Chaos Debugging” framework enabled by three open source projects: Gloo Shot, Squash, and Loop to help increase microservices’ “immunity” to issues.

event page : https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Kubernetes-Meetup/events/262237646/