Tyler Jewell, Codenvy: At Kubecon by The New Stack Makers

An interview with HPE's VP Products and Services Omri Gazitt, at Dockercon EU, about the HPE Helion platform.

Jason Hansen and Matt Butcher, DEIS: At Kubecon by The New Stack Makers

Darko Fabijan, SemaphoreCI: At DockerconEU by The New Stack Makers

There are a number of problems facing distributed systems today. One of those is monitoring microservices. With microservices, there are a multitude of small pieces of an application, often bundled with dependencies alongside it to ensure functionality across a variety of systems. If a developer only has a small amount of microservices in their stack, this is simple to keep track of. However, when one has hundreds of microservices and their dependencies to manage things can quickly get out of hand. Tooling becomes crucial once developers can no longer keep trans of a system from memory or within their current service visibility platform.

There are hundreds of incomprehensible systems, many comprised of decomposed microservices which are so vast humans cannot logically fathom their scale. “If one cannot even begin to comprehend a system’s architecture, how they then be tasked with making decisions about where services are located or if their dependencies will work together?” asks Kromhout. This is where developers have to turn to automation to address solutions to these particular issues. If software development teams are trying to solve problems by visualizing entire systems mentally, failure is nearly guaranteed. Building systems at scale requires them to be both resilient and fault tolerant, though Kromhout stresses that trying to architect failure out of a system is futile.

At the OpenStack Summit Tokyo, the New Stack's Alex Williams interviews IBM's Ralph Bateman and Daniel Berg.

At the OpenStack Summit Tokyo, the New Stack's Alex Williams interviews OpenStack board member Rob Hirschfield.

At the OpenStack Summit Tokyo, the New Stack's Alex Williams interviews Midokura's Adam Johnson

At the OpenStack Summit Tokyo, the New Stack's Alex Williams interviews Canonical's Dustin Kirkland