Rootconf 2018
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Rootconf 2018

On scaling infrastructure and operations

##About Rootconf 2018 and who should attend:

Rootconf is India’s best conference on DevOps, SRE and IT infrastructure. Rootconf attracts systems and operations engineers to share real-world knowledge about building reliable systems.

The 2018 edition is a single track conference. Day 1 – 10 May – features talks on security. Colin Charles (chief evangelist at Percona Foundation), Pukhraj Singh (former national cybersecurity manager at UIDAI), Shamim Reza (open source enthusiast), Alisha Gurung (network engineer at Bhutan Telecom) and Derick Thomas (former network engineer at VSNL and Airtel Bharti) will touch on important aspects of infrastructure, database, network and enterprise security.

Day 2 – 11 May – is filled with case studies and stories about legacy code, immutable infrastructure, root-cause analysis, handling dependencies and monitoring. Talks from Exotel, Kayako, Intuit, Helpshift, Digital Ocean, among others, will help you evaluate DevOps tools and architecture patterns.

If you are a:

  1. DevOps programmer
  2. Systems engineer
  3. Architect
  4. VP of engineering
  5. IT manager

you should attend Rootconf.

Birds Of Feather (BOF) sessions at Rootconf 2018 will cover the following topics:

  1. DevSec Ops
  2. Microservices - tooling, architecture, costs and culture
  3. Mistakes that startups make when planning infrastructure
  4. Handling technical debt
  5. How to plan a container strategy for your organization
  6. Evaluating AWS for scale
  7. Future of DevOps

Rootconf is a conference for practitioners, by practitioners.

The call for proposals is closed. If you are interested in speaking at Rootconf events in 2018, submit a proposal here: rootconf.talkfunnel.com/rootconf-round-the-year-2018/

##Venue:

NIMHANS Convention Centre, Lakkasandra, Hombegowda Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560029.

Schedule, event details and tickets: https://rootconf.in/2018

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Aditya Patawari

@adityapatawari

Throttling requests before they hit your application

Submitted Mar 15, 2018

Section: Crisp Talk Technical level: Intermediate

Most APIs get abused by users, sometimes intentionally, sometimes by mistake. If we throttle requests in the app, we waste precious resources of the app which should have been used to serve legitimate traffic. In this talk we will figure out a way to throttle traffic before it hits the application.

Outline

  • how do you throttle?
  • using middleware? but by then request has already hit your app.
  • if you are on aws, you can use WAF but that will only limit per 5 minutes and will base it on IP.
  • Let us think of an open and portable alternative. How about nginx?
  • Nginx can rate limit for us. A dumb solution, but it can help avoid spikes. We can rate limit based on IPs, user names and lots of other parameters.
  • But we can only put a single limit per parameter. We need it to be smarter.
  • Nginx supports Lua. Can we use it?
  • Enter OpenResty, the Nginx bundle pre-complied with Lua from by folks at cloudflare.
  • Let us add redis in the mix and push user info there.
  • More money, more API requests. We will be rich!!
  • each user will get a fixed number of tokens every minute. Once the tokens are finished, they can’t use the API anymore.
  • API gets rejected by Nginx itself, so no need to bother app about it.
  • Benchmark.

Requirements

Basic knowledge of what is an API and knowledge of Nginx can be used to proxy_pass. No in-depth knowledge is required.

Speaker bio

Aditya Patawari is a consultant specializing in cloud management, infrastructure management and container technologies. He has helped several organizations in setting up and managing their infrastructure.
He has given talks and workshops on containers and related technolgies in India and abroad (including Rootconf, FOSDEM, Flock and FUDCon). He is a contributor to Kubernetes project and to Fedora Project.

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MhmbolZz8IeCebON1SOtFzF2rLjWAvvfzmpAS3dLLfE/edit?usp=sharing

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