Is Arm for you? Patterns and anti-patterns for migration

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Viktor Vedmich

Amazon Web Services

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During his career, he managed to work as a developer, a systems engineer and as Systems Architect. For a long time, he worked combining the two roles of a system architect and engineer on projects based on Kubernetes. Always shares knowledge, when possible, through speeches, audio and video podcasts

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Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

4 July, 13:30, «Hall 1»

Abstracts

There is a lot of buzz about Arm architecture lately, but should you really migrate, or is x86 architecture a better choice for you? We will discuss patterns indicating when you are ready for migration and anti-patterns showing when it is better to hold off. Learn how to measure performance and troubleshoot it: find out which application affects your system SLO’s, which part of source code is to blame and if it’s software or hardware related. Is it so straight-forward to migrate databases? How to build containers for Arm and how to never do it?

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Mike Golubev

Amazon Web Services

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Mike helps AWS customers to build efficient infrastructures in the cloud. He works in IT for more than 15 years, starting as a freelance developer and then transitioning through multiple roles and teams, including support team, professional services and pre-sales.

Before AWS he worked in CloudBlue (an Ingram Micro business) with Telcos and Distributors across EMEA to expand their product portfolio with cloud services.

About speakers's company

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world.

4 July, 13:30, «Hall 1»

Abstracts

There is a lot of buzz about Arm architecture lately, but should you really migrate, or is x86 architecture a better choice for you? We will discuss patterns indicating when you are ready for migration and anti-patterns showing when it is better to hold off. Learn how to measure performance and troubleshoot it: find out which application affects your system SLO’s, which part of source code is to blame and if it’s software or hardware related. Is it so straight-forward to migrate databases? How to build containers for Arm and how to never do it?

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