Rob Richardson

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Conf42: Kube Native 2023

Service Mess to Service Mesh

In our quest to secure all the things, do we jump in too quickly? We'll use Istio and Linkerd as example service meshes, and look at the features we would expect from a service mesh. You'll leave with a concrete understanding of the service mesh, and be ready to justify the investment.

Rob Richardson

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Conf42: JavaScript 2022

Gaining Confidence with Cypress Tests

Have you ever wanted to refactor mercilessly but didn't want to break the fragile tower? Or have you ever pushed to production only to spend the next few days cleaning up the regressions? You need integration tests, and Cypress is a great, fast way to build them. With a simple JavaScript or TypeScript interface, you can automate browsers to hit those critical functions in your app to prove it...

Rob Richardson

Shoreline.io

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Conf42: Kube Native 2022

Horizontal Autoscaling with Kubernetes

Now that the app is running in Kubernetes, how do we scale it to meet demand? What metric should we use? CPU? Requests? something else? Let's dig into why we auto-scale, and how we auto-scale with lots of examples. Finally we'll look at potential pitfalls and gotchas like how to scale to 0 and how to avoid scaling too big for your budget. Come learn how to scale with Kubernetes.

Rob Richardson

Jetpack.io

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Conf42: DevSecOps 2021

Container Scanning: Run Fast and Stay Safe

Have your security needs taken a back seat to "run fast and break things"? Join us for this deep dive into adding container scanning to a DevOps pipeline and production monitoring. You can achieve a robust security posture and still release continuously. Have you struggled to get security baked into your DevOps process or have your security needs taken a back seat to "run fast and break...

Rob Richardson

Cyral

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Conf42: JavaScript 2021

JavaScript the Grumpy Parts

We love JavaScript, but we must admit: it's weird. Why does this behave as it does? How does variable scope work? Why do we have such comical behavior when comparing mixed types? Let's pull back the covers of these scenarios, and learn how it truly works. You may find a new reason to fall in love with JavaScript.

Rob Richardson

Cyral

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Conf42: Site Reliability Engineering 2021

Level-up Your DevOps with GitHub Actions and Kubernetes

Are you looking to rapidly deploy your content? Are Docker containers in your future? Come for this demo-only presentation where we start from scratch, build up a DevOps pipeline in GitHub Actions, and deploy to Kubernetes. Once setup, commit, and watch the magic flow into place. You too can automate your deployments.

Rob Richardson

Cyral

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Conf42: Python 2021

The Definitive Deep Dive into the .git Folder

What's in the .git folder? How are commits stored? How do branches work? We'll dive deep into the objects folder, unpack commits, look at the types of DAG nodes, examine object content, and build a complete visualization of the stored content. We'll also quickly look through Git hooks, Git config, and ref logs. Come experience the zen of git.

Rob Richardson

Cyral

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