BI SRE Top 10

Question 1

GCP (2)

Answer 1

Google Cloud Platform

Suite of computing services

Runs on same infra that Google uses for end-user services such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Drive and YouTube.

Question 2

OpenStack (2)

Answer 2

Free cloud computing platform

Mostly deployed as IaaS in public and private clouds.

Used by PayPal & Wikipedia

Question 3

OpenStack Swift (2)

Answer 3

Distributed object (file)/blob store

Data (best for unstructured) retrievable via API

Question 4

PostgreSQL (1)

Answer 4

Free open-source relational database management system

Question 5

Apache Kafka

Answer 5

PaaS middle man (message broker) between source and target systems.

Distributed event store and stream-processing platform.

Question 6

Apache Kafka advantages

Answer 6

Can scale to 100s of brokers
Can scale to millions of messages per second
Latency less than 10ms
35% of Fortune 500 - Netflix (recommendations real-time), airbnb, LinkedIn, Uber (surge pricing)

Question 7

Kafka Confluent

Answer 7

SaaS cloud native experience
- elastically scalable
- globally available
- patching is managed

Question 8

Cerberus

Answer 8

Cerberus is a user-friendly automated testing framework

Question 9

GitLab

Answer 9

Open source code repository & collaborative platform

Question 10

Artifactory

Answer 10

single solution for housing and managing all the artifacts, binaries, packages, files, containers, and components for use throughout your software supply chain.