Hello NYC Kubernauts!

Thanks for joining over in Brooklyn last month. In April, we return to Manhattan & visit the Snap Inc offices.

Leo & Sumbul of Snap will present "Running Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Stack at Snap." In this talk they will discuss Snap's experience running the location backend stack using Kubernetes on GCP/GKE & AWS/EKS. The focus will be on some challenges they have encountered & tools they have created to help with building & deploying containers.

Then, we welcome back Andrew Phillips; he will demonstrate some strategies for managing user traffic on Kubernetes for more advanced app deployment patterns. [blue/green, exponential rollouts, & canary] He'll describe how these can be implemented with & without Istio, & orchestrated using tools such as Spinnaker or Jenkins. The aim is to provide an explanation of how these rollout strategies work, how to implement them, & what kinds of tooling support is available.

Space is really limited at this event, so RSVP today!

SPONSORED: Thanks to NetApp for ongoing support & Snap for hosting the group this month!

Are you a local member interested in presenting to the group? Submit your talk here: https://goo.gl/forms/RaoYMClioVUgeSJt1

AGENDA
6:30 - 7:00 - Social
7:00 - 7:10 - Community Announcements
7:10 - 7:40 - Leonid Gorkin & Sumbul Alvi, Snap
7:45 - 8:15 - Andrew Phillips
8:15 - 8:45 - Social / Wrap-up

SPEAKER BIOS

Leonid Gorkin is the software engineering manager at Snap Inc with decades of experience working for technology & finance companies. During his tenure at Snap, Leonid was working on location sharing backend for Snap Map, which includes Actionmoji backend (user avatars changing appearances depending on user location & behavior) & other exiting features.

Sumbul Alvi is a backend engineer at Snapchat NYC, working with microservices in Golang. In the past, she has ventured into the world of Mobile (Android & iOS) & DevOps. Her latest project includes finding the balance between weird & cool in the world user submitted content ranking on Snapchat's SnapMap.

Andrew Phillips is a frequent contributor to the Continuous Delivery & Devops space. He's been a software engineer, team lead, infrastructure builder (a.k.a. head of duct tape) & community evangelist & now works on product management & strategy. Andrew contributes to a number of open-source projects, is a regular speaker & author & co-organizer of ContainerDays Boston & NYC.