We are excited to host the second edition of the Cloud Native Computing Linz meetup!

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- Denis Jannot 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 is also one of the responsible of FH Cloud Computing Fall 2020. If you want to know more about him visit https://pasztor.at

--------- The Talks ---------

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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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