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Build Your Own PaaS the Netflix Way!
Sudhir Tonse presents Netflix' composable PaaS built with several components that have been open sourced.
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Architecting Organizations for the Cloud
Sebastian Stadil advises on selecting the right cloud from EC2, GCE, or OpenStack based on one's needs, outlining the deployment and administrative challenges to be faced with each option.
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From The Lab To The Factory: Building A Production Machine Learning Infrastructure
Josh Wills discusses using Hadoop technologies to build real-time data analysis models with a focus on strategies for data integration, large-scale machine learning, and experimentation.
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Data Science for Hire Ed
Gloria Lau describes some of the products built for the higher education sector, the data standardization process, determining school similarity and identifying notable alumni.
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Machine Learning & Recommender Systems at Netflix Scale
Xavier Amatriain discusses the machine learning algorithms and architecture behind Netflix' recommender systems, offline experiments and online A/B testing.
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My Other Internet is a Mirage
Anil Madhavapeddy suggests a different approach to building Internet services avoiding the complexity of today's services which incorporate many policies and security mechanisms.
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Exploring the Future of Web Tooling with Brackets
Narciso Jaramillo demonstrates tools and prototypes that have been built into and on top of Brackets, discusses the Brackets architecture and its extensibility model, and lessons learned building it.
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Core.async - Communicating Sequential Processes using Channels, in Clojure
Rich Hickey presents the motivation, design and use of the Clojure core.async library, the reasons for choosing the CSP approach and how it helps to structure applications.
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One Backend Per User: 100% Data Privacy / 0 Scaling Issues
Michiel de Jong suggests solving the data privacy and scalability issues by enabling mobile apps to connect to user's preferred back-end using Dropbox.js, GDrive JS, NimbusBase, remoteStorage.io, etc.
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API-Driven Development for Both Ends
Jakub Nesetril presents a practical example of prototyping, developing and testing an application using a structured description of its API.
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Data & Infrastructure at Airbnb
Brenden Matthews describes the infrastructure built at Airbnb using Mesos in order to support Hadoop and Storm.
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Redesigning PayPal APIs for Scale and Simplicity
Deepak Nadig, Praveen Alavilli present how PayPal redesigned its APIs based on lessons learnt developing their services in over 14 years, and the principles, patterns and anti-patterns used.