20 September 2018 | San Francisco, California, USA

IEEE Infrastructure Conference

Gain insight and inspiration to think, or re-think, your Hear from infrastructure in sessions guided by and in discussion with Infrastructure foremost experts across the technology industry. Insiders such as... Join us as we discuss big picture questions to give you overall, forward thinking insight, as well as operational nuts & bolts for maximizing your infrastructure, such as: Danny Lange | » Understanding the evolving role of AI to automate, address complex Vice President of AI and Machine challenges, and improve overall productivity and customer experience Learning » Leveraging systems, services design, and operational management in scale Benjamin Treynor Sloss | Google » Managing failures and lessons learned using real-world scenarios Vice President of Engineering and examples » Assessing trust models in your system paradigms » Addressing the engineering culture and customer experience Let's learn from each other, tell our stories, and create a The Venue community and network that we can trust and reach out to when needed. Step away from your daily routine and join us at San What Makes this Conference Different Francisco’s Terra Gallery for the day. The open space encourages » Designed for and by practitioners, with speakers who have all led, managed or built large infrastructures themselves collaboration and networking, while also inspiring innovation. » An intimate, neutral environment for networking and learning with leaders from top technology companies Terra Gallery » Convened by IEEE, the world's largest technical professional association 51 Harrison Street dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity San Francisco, CA 94105 Topics include:

» & » Storage & Data » Micro-services & Programming Models Join Us » Security & Trust » Linux & System Management Registration is open for » Scalability & Reliability 2018 IEEE Infrastructure. The sooner you register, the more If you're looking for answers, ideas, or the right people to connect with regarding infrastructure, this unique event is for you! you’ll save. Visit our website for the latest updates. Conference Chairs infrastructing yourur infrastructure,e.ieee.org such as: • Mazdak Hashemi, Ph.D. • Dejan Milojicic, Ph.D.

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Preliminary Agenda ‐ subject to change Start End Agenda 8:00am 8:45am BREAKFAST GATHERING & NETWORKING

8:45am 9:00am Welcome Remarks & Introductions

9:00am 9:30am KEYNOTE ‐ Benjamin Treynor Sloss (Google) ‐ Scaling Challenges in Infrastructure: Single Points of Failure, and Expensive Heuristics

9:30am 10:45am MORNING SESSION ‐ SERVICES, PROGRAMMING MODELS  Marius Eriksen (GRAIL) ‐ Simplicity in the Age of Clouds  Norman Mauer (Apple) ‐ Scaling Netty based Services @ Apple  Peter Sbarski (A Cloud Guru) ‐ Serverless in Practice  Andrew Wilcox (Twitter) ‐ Modern Compression at Twitter  Bo Liu (Pinterest) ‐ Build a dynamic and responsive Pinterest on AWS: a system engineer’s perspective 10:45am 11:00am BREAK 10:45am 11:45am Exhibits Open ‐ In Parallel to Session

11:00am 12:30pm MORNING SESSION (continues) ‐ STORAGE & DATA  Tian‐Ying Chang (Pinterest) ‐ Goku: Pinterest’s in‐house time series database  Amin Heydari (Box Inc.) ‐ Scaling to an Exabyte Storage System in a Multi‐Cloud Environment with Strict Governance Requirements  Ed Huang (PingCAP) ‐ Designing Relational Databases in 2010’s: Trends and Methodology  Jamie Turner (Dropbox) ‐ Pushing Boundaries in Cloud Storage  Dinesh Joshi (Apache Cassandra) ‐ Need for speed: Boosting Apache Cassandra’s performance using Netty  Vinu Charanya (Twitter) ‐ How Twitter built a Framework to improve Infrastructure Efficiency at Scale 12:30pm 1:30pm LUNCH 1:30pm 2:30pm PANEL SESSION ‐ How to manage failures at scale and lessons learned, Jennifer Fraser (Twitter), Chair  Arya Asemandar (LightStep)  Berk D. Demir (Facebook)  Scott Engstrom (Oracle)  Sabrina Farmer (Google)  Jennifer Fraser (Twitter) 2:30pm 2:45pm AFTERNOON SESSION ‐ SECURITY & TRUST  Raymond W. Blaine (West Point) ‐ Securing Infrastructure’s Industrial Control Systems (ICS) 2:45pm 3:00pm BREAK 2:45pm 4:00pm Exhibits Open ‐ In Parallel to Session 3:00pm 5:30pm AFTERNOON SESSION (continues) SOFT SKILLS: CULTURE, EXPERIENCE, SERVICES  Nitzan Blouin (WeWork) ‐ Five Simple Steps for Changing an Engineering Culture  Dathan Vance Pattishall (WeWork) ‐ WeWork K8s from nothing to happy customer  Randy Shoup (WeWork) ‐ Service Architectures at Scale LINUX, SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT  Keith Packard (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) ‐ Gen‐Z Support for Linux  Lohit Vijay & Zhenzhao Wang (Twitter) ‐ Large Scale Event Log Management @ Twitter  Ruben Oanta (Twitter) ‐ Deterministic Aperture: An algorithm for non‐cooperative, client‐side load balancing  Sandy Strong (Twitter) ‐ Capacity Planning for Twitter’s Adaptive Ad Server  Ihab Hamadi (Western Digital) ‐ Driving the Future of Data Infrastructure for High‐Scale Data Centers AI  Prasanth Pulavarthi () ‐ ONNX: Open Ecosystem for Interoperable and Scalable AI  Natalia Vassileva (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) ‐ HPE Deep Learning Cookbook: How to Choose an Optimal Infrastructure for Deep Learning Workloads 5:30pm 6:00pm KEYNOTE ‐ Danny Lange (Unity Technologies) ‐ From Cloud to Cyber‐physical Systems, AI, and Beyond

6:00pm 8:00pm SOCIAL & NETWORKING