A little over a year ago we partnered with a major telecom provider to build a data processing and analytics platform - in 3 months. The choice was clear, in order to meet the uncertainties, deadlines and handle the volumes of data that we were expecting, the application and services would need to be cloud-native.

We will cover lessons learned and best practices for application design in cloud-native environments, quickly reacting to infrastructure failures and traffic surges, mitigating (or accepting) the risks of single points of failure, cloud specific performance considerations, and deployment strategies in a dynamically scalable environment that handles billions of transactions per day.

Speaker bios:

• Mark Wunsch is a graduate of the University of Texas, a Masters student at Georgia Tech. He is currently the Lead Software Engineer for the Collective at Kochava.
• Rob Lyon is a graduate of the University of Idaho with a background in high performance computing. He is currently the Director of Live Operations at Kochava.

Date: Monday October 1, 2018
Time: 3:30pm
Room: Engineering Physics, room 204
Networking Social: after the talk in JEB 111