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“Sometimes there’s a misconception that Genie is a job scheduling platform... Genie really represents our extraction layer, from what our computational resources are, to our end user jobs.” Genie is an open-source tool that provides job and resource management for the Hadoop ecosystem in the cloud. Continue reading… The post Netflix Genie with Tom Gianos appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Distributed systems programming will always be a world of tradeoffs -- there is no silver bullet in the future. But life can be made easier with tactics such as the actor pattern and the use of conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs). Caitie McCaffrey is a distributed systems engineer who currently works at Twitter. She previously worked on Halo 4 at Microsoft and 343 Industries. At QCon San Francisco, she will be hosting the track Taming Distributed Architecture. Continue reading… The post Taming Distributed Architecture with Caitie McCaffrey appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“DevOps is not a thing. It is a set of problem statements and solution possibilities that are always growing.” The hosts of DevOps Cafe joined Software Engineering Daily for a conversation about DevOps culture and misconceptions. Questions What do software engineers need to know about DevOps? What are the biggest misconceptions around DevOps? Is DevOps The post Origin of DevOps with John and Damon from DevOps Cafe appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Jenkins is an extensible open source continuous integration server. Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the primary developer of Jenkins CI and the CTO of CloudBees, a provider of enterprise Jenkins. Questions: How does continuous integration affect DevOps? What has changed in the five years since Jenkins was created? In what ways is Jenkins opinionated? What are the The post Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Container infrastructure has benefits of security, scalability and efficiency. Containers are a central component of the DevOps movement. Joyent provides simple, secure deployment of containers with bare metal speed on container-native infrastructure Bryan Cantrill is the CTO of Joyent, the father of DTrace and an OS kernel developer for 20 years. Questions: Why are containers The post Containers with Bryan Cantrill from Joyent appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Rocana applies big data, advanced analytics, and visualizations to dev ops in order to guide users to the root causes of problems. Eric Sammer is the co-founder and CTO of Rocana. At Cloudera, he served as an Engineering Manager responsible for tools and partner integrations. Within that role, he developed many of Cloudera’s best practices for The post Hadoop Ops: Rocana CTO Eric Sammer Interview appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.