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Lightning Talk 8 – Never Drop Never Fail

Right, things were getting forgotten, things were getting dropped steps were getting missed. That’s generally, one of the primary reasons we get brought in, things aren’t talked, people aren’t talking to each other systems aren’t talking to each other things are stalled, things are failing. That’s why we come in.

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Lightning Talk 6 – Data for Reporting Purposes

So what we’ve talked about is that we’ve been using Cassandra for our data storage. And one of the things that we’ve also mentioned is that we are specifically storing our data in Cassandra optimized for users. And because it’s optimized for users and for speed, for the application itself, is not necessarily stored in a way that is super intuitive to somebody that did not write the application to retrieve it, and then try to make reports or data or to make sense of it unnecessarily.

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Lightning Talk 5 – Docker

Docker is the next generation of the virtual machine world. And what it does is it containerize is an application, which is much smaller versus virtualizing, an entire machine and you get all kinds of benefits out of that. Some of them are less memory usage, faster startups, and just plain easier to administer.

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Lightning Talk 4 – Log Aggregation

Elastic Search is a full text search engine that makes it easy to be able to actually search for the errors in the log files. And then finally, cabana is kind of a GUI front end to Elastic Search and allows you to actually have graphs charts and have a website that you can enter in your query to find the errors in the log files.

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