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Lessons from the field on API strategy, design, governance and AI integration.

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#GlueCon 2014 Notes: Managing Containers at Scale on Google Compute Engines – Joe Beda, Google

Managing Containers at Scale on Google Compute Engines – Joe Beda, Google Everything at Google runs in a container (KVM-based) Google starts over 2 billion containers per week (...

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#GlueCon 2014 Notes: VPC Migration: Flying Blind on a Rocket Cycle – Matthew Boeckman, Craftsy

VPC Migration: Flying Blind on a Rocket Cycle – Matthew Boeckman, Craftsy “VPC is mature network topology for AWS” Network ACL’s allow for true edge blocking I...

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#GlueCon 2014 Keynote: Taming the RESTed NARWHL: Striking the Balance Between Usability and Zealotry in REST – Rob Zazueta, Mashery (an Intel Company)

Keynote: Taming the RESTed NARWHL: Striking the Balance Between Usability and Zealotry in REST – Rob Zazueta, Mashery (an Intel Company) For those charged with writing books abo...

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#GlueCon 2014 Keynote: Automation and DevOps: How to Create a Lights-Out Software Defined Data Center – Joshua McKenty, Piston Cloud Computing

Keynote: Automation and DevOps: How to Create a Lights-Out Software Defined Data Center – Joshua McKenty, Piston Cloud Computing Thinking about SDKs makes us think about consumi...

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#GlueCon 2014 Keynote: The Case for Application Driven Cloud Computing – Adam Davis, Chief Architect, Cloud Computing, Citi

Keynote: The Case for Application Driven Cloud Computing – Adam Davis, Chief Architect, Cloud Computing, Citi When Adam started out in the industry, dev and ops had no separatio...

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#GlueCon 2014 Notes: Enhancing Your Cloud Applications with Artificial Intelligence – Elliot Turner, AlchemyAPI

(Notes by @tomkane) Enhancing Your Cloud Applications with Artificial Intelligence – Elliot Turner, AlchemyAPI One big advantage is offloading specialized, intensive compu...

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#GlueCon 2014 Notes: Salter: Using Go to provision Saltstack clusters on AWS – Dave Smith, Orchestrate

(Notes by @tomkane) Salter: Using Go to provision Saltstack clusters on AWS – Dave Smith, Orchestrate Using fanout.io for PubSub. Love Salt. SaltCloud didn’t exist yet, so...

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#GlueCon 2014 Notes: DevOps vs. the Enterprise: What We Can Learn from Mainframe Developers – Mike Baukes, ScriptRock

(Notes by @tomkane) DevOps vs. the Enterprise: What We Can Learn from Mainframe Developers – Mike Baukes, ScriptRock “Going big & screwing up on DevOps implement...

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#GlueCon 2014 Notes: What Makes a Great Developer Company? – Ethan Kurzweil, Bessemer Venture Partners

Keynote: What Makes a Great Developer Company? – Ethan Kurzweil, Bessemer Venture Partners Why the time is now for the developer-driven business Developers traditionally have be...

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#GlueCon 2014 Notes: How, Why and When to R&D — Adam DuVander, SendGrid Labs

Keynote: How, Why and When to R&D — Adam DuVander, SendGrid Labs Hackathons as performed by a hardware manufacturer: “Bring your ideas.. some wood, we’ll provide...

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#GlueCon 2014 Notes: API First: Designing your Product from the Platform Out – Kirsten Hunter, 3Scale

API First: Designing your Product from the Platform Out – Kirsten Hunter, 3Scale APIs are often an afterthought for developers You will always have another client Taking an API ...

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#GlueCon 2014 Notes: Love your Logs with Elasticsearch ELK – Jordan Sissel, Elasticsearch

Love your Logs with Elasticsearch ELK – Jordan Sissel, Elasticsearch Been in operations for 10 years, recently switched to programming but always been one What is a log? Time + ...