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[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgxt9JsTPg\u0026index=11\u0026list=PLyMKpkdEV2csQg93bEPv2R27sawxIm9zG)\n\n## 2017\n- [Lessons scaling operations to everyone @indix](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/lessons-scaling-operations-to-everyone-at-indix) - Presented at [Miniconf on Cloud Server Management (Chennai) 2017](https://rootconf.talkfunnel.com/cloud-server-management-miniconf-chennai-2017/7-lessons-scaling-operations-to-everyone-indix). [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUTz1eqwBkI).\n- [Using Monoids for Large Scale Aggregates](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/using-monoids-for-large-scale-aggregates) - Co-Presented along with [@brewkode](https://github.com/brewkode) at [Scala.io](https://scala.io/talks.html#/#XZI-2391) 2017 held at Lyon, France. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW3Z_rIPn3w)\n- [Using Monoids for Business Metrics](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/using-monoids-for-business-metrics) - Presented at [Geeknight Chennai](https://twchennai.github.io/geeknight/edition-48.html) October 2017. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJepu3sbmkU).\n- [Using Monoids for Large Scale Business Stats](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/using-monoids-for-large-scale-business-stats) - Presented at [HackersAvenue](https://www.meetup.com/preview/hackers-avenue/events/243739079) October 2017. [References](https://github.com/ashwanthkumar/large-scale-business-stats-talk).\n- [Suuchi - Distributed System Primitives](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/suuchi-distributed-system-primitives) - Presented at [Devday](https://www.meetup.com/devday_chennai/events/238855098/) April 2017. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pW6tAM8rIQ) | [References](https://github.com/ashwanthkumar/suuchi-ds-primitives).\n\n## 2016\n- [Suuchi - Application Layer Sharding](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/suuchi-application-layer-sharding) - Presented at [ILUG-C (Chennai Linux User Group)](https://www.meetup.com/ILUG-C/events/233660958/) December 2016. [References](https://github.com/ashwanthkumar/suuchi-sharding-talk).\n- [Lessons from Building Distributed RocksDB](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/lessons-from-building-distributed-rocksdb) - Presented at [Geeknight Chennai](https://twchennai.github.io/geeknight/edition-37.html) November 2016. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSCa9_Avne0) | [References](https://github.com/ashwanthkumar/distributed-rocksdb-talk).\n- [suuchi - distributed data systems toolkit](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/suuchi-distributed-data-systems-toolkit) - Presented at Chennai Docker / Go meetup. [References](https://github.com/ashwanthkumar/suuchi-talk).\n- [Lessons from managing hadoop clusters on aws @indix](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/lessons-from-managing-hadoop-clusters-on-aws-at-indix) - Presented at [DevopsDays India](http://devopsdaysindia.org/2016/index.html#speakers) 2016 held at Bangalore, India. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBbgylpRufQ).\n- [Learnings from running production infra on aws spot reliably](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/matsya-geeknight-april-2016) - Presented at [Geeknight](https://twchennai.github.io/geeknight/edition-30.html) April 2016. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeBV9JRoTOA).\n- [Matsya](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/matsya-apr-16) - Slide deck created for a flash talk at Rootconf 2016, but never got a chance to do it.\n- [Introduction to Matsya](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/introduction-to-matsya) - Presented at [Chennai Devops Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/ChennaiDevOps/events/227776005/) January 2016. Matsya is a process that helps you choose the lowest priced AZ for a machine type when running behind Auto Scaling Groups on AWS. We use Matsya @Indix to run our entire Hadoop fleet on Spot instances to save cost.\n\n## 2015\n- [Introducing Vamana](https://speakerdeck.com/ashwanthkumar/introducing-vamana) - Presented at [Chennai AWS Meetup](http://www.meetup.com/Chennai-Amazon-Web-Services-Meetup/events/226182749/) October 2015. This talk is about the open source project [Vamana](https://github.com/indix/vamana) that helps you autoscale your AWS ASGs using application metrics.\n\n[![Creative Commons License](https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)  \n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fashwanthkumar%2Ftalks","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fashwanthkumar%2Ftalks","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fashwanthkumar%2Ftalks/lists"}