Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

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How Service Optimization Keeps ViaSat Flying

Anyone responsible for operating OpenStack infrastructure to support production workloads at scale knows two things. First, application and infrastructure monitoring tooling is a patchwork of bits and pieces, with much assembly required. Second, the reliability and performance of that monitoring often is the difference between happy users and angry phone calls when performance drops below minimum acceptable thresholds.

ViaSat operates OpenStack in production to support the company's developers, who build apps to support demanding satellite broadband customers worldwide.

In this session, Mike Craft of ViaSat and Travis Newhouse of AppFormix will show how ViaSat approaches service optimization through performance monitoring. They will talk about the importance of low-latency agents and message bus architecture, and how to give application developers visibility into how the infrastructure is performing, giving them power to troubleshoot issues before they become IT trouble tickets.


What can I expect to learn?

They will learn what their options are for tooling that accomplishes the above from someone with first-hand experiences operating OpenStack in production.

Wednesday, April 27, 3:30pm-4:10pm (8:30pm - 9:10pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
AppFormix
Travis Newhouse is Chief Architect at AppFormix, where he leads design of the AppFormix distributed data platform that provides analytics and control of cloud infrastructure. Travis has over 15 years of experience developing Linux kernel and user-space software for high-performance network and distributed systems. Prior to AppFormix, Travis was at Cisco systems working on the NX-OS kernel... FULL PROFILE
Systems Analyst
Currently part of the Cloud Services team at ViaSat. I lead our support operations and architecture for Enterprise Cloud offerings. Prior to this role, I led Systems and Engineering teams at eBay responsible for the QA Operations transition from bare metal to cloud platforms. FULL PROFILE
ViaSat, Inc.
I have been with ViaSat for ten years as a network enginner with the past two years working on the cloud services team with my primary responsibiliteis in architecting, deploying and supporting the underlay and overlay networks along with general support of the cloud environments. FULL PROFILE
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