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Zen: Pinterest's Graph Storage Service
This talk goes over the design motivation for Zen and describe its internals including the API, type system and HBase backend.
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Tumblr - Bits to Gifs
John Bunting talks about different services Tumblr has built and how their architecture helps them be fault tolerant as they continue to grow.
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Continuous Delivery Without Breaking Everything
Andy Vaughn gives attendees a case study of how changing the development model and release cycle of a 5 year old software product to continuous delivery greatly improved the product.
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Motivating The Many at Unilever
Geoff McDonald describes how the company succeeds in engaging workers by providing an inspirational business purpose, a decision making framework and focusing on employee well-being.
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Building a Data Pipeline with the Tools You Have - An Orbitz Case Study
Steve Hoffman, Ken Dallmeyer share their experience integrating Hadoop into the existing environment at Orbitz, creating a reusable data pipeline, ingesting, transporting, consuming and storing data.
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The Pivotal Way
Josh Knowles shares thoughts on the strong engineering culture which has made the Pivotal Labs team successful, taking a look at how things have evolved over the past 20 years.
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Spike Lean Visual Design Directly into Your Live Style Guide
Ward Penney discusses a few tools, benefits and war stories surrounding Live Style Guides.
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Dealing with Disruption
Mark Cohen shares how Fairfax is using Lean and Agile to embrace disruption, and how free online news has undermined a very lucrative print news business, taking their classifieds markets.
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Structure, Personalization, Scale: A Deep Dive into LinkedIn Search
The authors discuss some of the unique challenges they've faced delivering highly personalized search over semi-structured data at massive scale.
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Scaling Gilt: from Monolithic Ruby Application to Distributed Scala Micro-Services Architecture
Yoni Goldberg describes some of the technological innovations that have helped Gilt to reach its current size, and highlight some of the core challenges that the company's engineering team faces.
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Solidifying the Cloud: How Google Backs up the Internet
Raymond Blum discusses some of the challenges, solutions and discarded alternatives in creating durable storage systems at Google scale.
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Scaling Foursquare: From Check-ins to Recommendations
Jon Hoffman discusses the general architecture, storage systems and development practices created to handle the ever increasing volume and complexity at Foursquare.