Ahmed Bebars
Principal Engineer @ The New York Times | Cloud Native Ambassador | AWS Community Builder | Speaker
New York City, New York, United States
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As a Principal Engineer on the Delivery Engineering mission at The New York Times, I specialize in Cloud Infrastructure technologies, focusing on developing robust and scalable Kubernetes-based solutions. My primary focus is crafting a secure and flexible runtime environment that empowers service teams to swiftly and efficiently deploy their applications. This platform stands as a testament to rapid application development, underpinned by a commitment to security and adherence to industry best practices.
Before my tenure at The Times, I played a significant role at Hello Fresh as a Senior Backend Engineer, where I honed my skills in backend systems and application optimization. Additionally, my experience as an Application Development Lead at Wireless Network Group enriched my perspective on software development, especially in telecommunications.
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Cilium: Connecting, Observing, and Securing Kubernetes and Beyond with eBPF
Welcome to Cilium's maintainer track session where you'll get an update on how Cilium is expanding the frontiers of cloud native networking, observability, and security. Cilium is CNCF's most widely adopted CNI, being the default choice for all major cloud providers. This talk dives into the bytecode behind all of the buzz around the project.
We'll start with a brief overview of each part of the project before diving into how Cilium is expanding beyond Kubernetes with load balancing and multi-cloud networking and into runtime enforcement with Tetragon. In this session, you'll hear from Cilium contributors and users Isovalent and The New York Times.
Blueprints of Innovation: Engineering Paved Paths for a User-friendly Developer Platform
Our cloud strategy encourages centralizing to a single cloud provider, which posed a few challenges as teams previously had the autonomy to choose their own paths and tools. As a result, our platform needed to be architectured in such a way to be agnostic to underlying cloud-specific services and designed to provide paved paths.
This talk aims to provide valuable insights into the nuances of platform engineering in the cloud, offering attendees a blueprint for implementing similar strategies in their organizations. We’ll discuss the challenges we faced building our multi-tenant platform in the cloud, including specifics in how we designed:
- A simple onboarding experience, complete with starter software templates
- A secure and isolated environment on top of our centralized Kubernetes clusters
- A simple onboarding experience for multiple cloud accounts for each tenant
- A centralized approach to CI/CD, including standard build and test pipelines
- A managed ingress layer
Revolutionizing Mesh Layers: Transitioning from Istio to Cilium at The New York Times
Networking isn’t an easy task to achieve, and with scale, that can grow out of control quickly. We are always looking to improve the performance and ensure the traffic passes through the most efficient route but with more capabilities. Adding a service mesh to ensure better availability and many other features can be a bit tricky. We will discuss the intricacies of the shared platform mesh layer design. We will dive into our decision to explore the evolution of Cilium, which was initially used only as a Container Network Interface (CNI) but has now become a feature-rich, multi-region mesh layer.
Ahmed and Pete will discuss the strategic decisions and implementation processes that allowed Cilium to replace many of Istio seamlessly. This has resulted in a scalable architecture and a significant performance and resource optimization boost.
The audience will learn how the team strategically leveraged Cilium to unlock new possibilities in managing their platform mesh layer.
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Ahmed Bebars
Principal Engineer @ The New York Times | Cloud Native Ambassador | AWS Community Builder | Speaker
New York City, New York, United States
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