Name: Spotify Visit
Start: 2021-06-03T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-06-04T16:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Thursday 3 June
- Thu 3 Jun
- Fri 4 Jun
- 1
  Infrastructure, Kubernetes and Cloud Native
  Some ideas of things to cover:
  - Deployment tools
  - Monitoring (of applications and infrastructure)
  - Policy enforcement / OPA?
  - Usage tracking / accounting
  - Workload scheduling? Need to schedule along data?
  - Typical workloads… batch, interactive jobs? Any custom tooling?
  - Any workloads not fitting Kubernetes? Other tooling being used?
- 2
  Machine Learning
  Some ideas of things to cover:
  - Use Cases and Algorithms Used
  - Typical workflow from quick analysis to distributed / large scale training to serving
  - Tools and Infrastructure
    Luigi? https://github.com/spotify/luigi
    Kubeflow?
  - GPUs? TPUs?
- 3
  Public Cloud
  Some ideas of things to cover:
  - Experiences and challenges running on public cloud
  - Reasons to move out of on-premises, any thoughts 3 years passed?
  - High Level Services vs Your Own
  - Managed Kubernetes? Relying on high level ML services from GCP?
  - Single cloud provider (GCP)? Considering multi cloud?
- 4
  Data and Databases
  Some ideas of things to cover:
  - Data Needs and Tools Used
  - Data distribution / bookkeeping around regions
    Any optimizations for cost reduction
  - Databases
    Do you have NoSQL databases?
    If so, what are the use-cases?
    How are they deployed/maintained?
    Do you have use-cases for relational databases / NewSQL?
Friday 4 June
- Thu 3 Jun
- Fri 4 Jun
- 5
  
  Computing Seminar
- 6
  
  Backup Session, Open Discussion