Lerna Ekmekcioglu
Clockwork Systems
Is it the app or the network? When it comes to latency in distributed systems, it can be hard to pinpoint where exactly the issue is. Join me to hear about how to get high precision one way delays for your distributed systems deployed anywhere for better performance for your end users!
Is the app slow or the network lagging? When it comes to latency across distributed systems, it can be hard to pinpoint where exactly the issue lies. To add to this, business demands drive where we run our workloads today from on-premises, cloud to hybrid environments whether to enhance agility, reduce cost or risk, blurring our view into the health of our systems across these disjoint environments.
Clock synchronization in distributed systems is key for identifying the true culprit when it comes to latency. In this session, I’ll demystify the building blocks for synchronizing clocks across distributed systems. I’ll go over protocols to date (NTP, PTP, PPS), their pros and cons, and best practices such as slewing clocks. I’ll dive into an algorithm to achieve higher precision clock synchronization at scale as well as how it helps us gain visibility into useful metrics such as one way delays opening the doors to the ability to monitor response times and improve performance for our end users.
The session is targeted for SRE’s, infrastructure, and platform teams who are looking to gain a deeper understanding on how to improve response times for workloads with high precision clock synchronization across distributed systems deployed on-premises, in the cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid environments.
Lerna is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Clockwork Systems where she helps customers meet their performance goals as well as regulatory reporting objectives with software solutions built upon Clockwork.io’s foundational clock synchronization research.
Prior to this, she was an AWS Senior Solutions Architect serving Global Financial Services customers for 3 years. Before that, Lerna spent 17 years as an infrastructure engineer in large financial services companies working on authentication systems, distributed caching, and multi region deployments using IaC and CI/CD to name a few. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, sight seeing and backyard astronomy.