LCE-EU 2015

The founders of today’s open source distributed systems were once responsible for building the distributed systems for Amazon and Google.

Their entrepreneurial spirit drove them to building distributed virtual networking system for enterprises looking for Amazon-like clouds on-premise. They quickly found that the traditional network monitoring tools (such as TCP Dump, Wireshark and Traceroute) that once worked with the physical networks are no longer able to provide visibility into the virtual networks.

Choosing open source technologies such as Zoom, Cassandra, and Prometheus as building blocks, discover how these architects applied open source technologies to not only design their distributed network virtualization system from scratch but also to build the monitoring tools to provide visibility back into the virtual network.