West LA DevOps
January 30, 2020

meetup.com/West-LA-DevOps
Agenda
- Job Board
- Industry Updates
- Tech talk: Taming system complexity with Semver by Julian Gindi
- Closing notes


About GumGum
- Computer Vision company
- Advertising
- Context-aware ads
- Brand safety technology
- Sports division



















>25M RPM


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Did you know?
GumGum Invented In-Image advertising in 2008
Job Board
DevOps Engineer @ GumGum (x2)



Sr. Python Developer @ GumGum

Job Board
DevOps Engineer @ Your Company?

Since the last time we met..

1) Notable Blog Posts


Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm
Alpine makes Python Docker builds 50× slower, and images 2× larger


Let's Encrypt APIs go down

Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs

If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong

2) AWS

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer

AWS Compute Optimizer


(Managed!) Apache Cassandra Service

So Many New EC2 Instances



3) Security Incidents

Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability

Kubernetes "Billion Laughs" Exploit

Helm 3 Released

Bypassing GitHub's OAuth flow

Taming system complexity with Semver
By Julian Gindi, Senior DevOps Engineer at GumGum


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Date: March 2020

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