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Accelerating Netflix Data: a Cross-Team Journey from Offline to Online
Raj Ummadisetty and Ken Kurzweil explain how Netflix transitioned its key-value abstraction from stateless to stateful, reducing data deployment time by 90% and infrastructure costs by 70%.
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Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto
Martin Kleppmann explains how de facto standards, multi-cloud strategies, the AT Protocol, and local-first software can mitigate geopolitical risks and eliminate vendor lock-in.
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Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads
Joseph Stein explains how to build a highly available private AI cloud. He shares blueprints on scaling vLLM on enterprise GPUs, implementing gateway guardrails, and optimizing batch workloads.
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Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers
Stéphane Di Cesare and Cat Morris discuss applying product thinking to engineering. They explain how focusing on outcomes over outputs helps engineers demonstrate value and secure promotions.
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Evolution of a Backend for a Streaming Application
Daniele Frasca shares how to scale streaming apps for millions of users using serverless patterns. Learn to eliminate single points of failure, improve data consistency, and master multi-region.
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How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud
Frank Yu explains how Coinbase builds ultra-high-performance exchanges. He discusses using single-threaded, deterministic core logic and Raft consensus to achieve sub-millisecond P99s in the cloud.
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No QA Environment? No Problem: How Classpass Enables Testing on a Single Environment in ECS
Po Linn Chia explains how ClassPass eliminated environment contention using ECS, Traefik, and OpenTelemetry baggage to enable scalable, ephemeral testing without a dedicated QA environment.
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Thinking Like a Detective: Solving Cloud Infrastructure Mysteries
Brendan McLoughlin discusses a "cloud mystery" methodology for debugging complex systems. He explains how to use HTTP status codes and request flow diagrams to track down elusive infrastructure bugs.
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Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies from chase.com, #1 Banking Portal in the US
Durai Arasan shares how Chase.com achieved a 71% latency reduction. He explains strategies for efficient scaling, multi-region resilience, and automated "repaving" to secure large-scale systems.
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Building Distributed Event-Driven Architectures across Multi-Cloud Boundaries
Teena Idnani shares actionable insights for senior engineers and architects on tackling the complexities of event-driven multi-cloud architectures, covering latency, resilience, and data consistency.
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From Grassroots to Enterprise: Vanguard's Journey in SRE Transformation
Christina Yakomin shares Vanguard's SRE journey: from monolithic releases to DevOps, coaching, request-rate autoscaling, and resiliency testing for AI-backed systems.
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Things SaaS Builders Keep Getting Wrong
Jon Topper shares the most common mistakes he sees SaaS builders make, from building things no one wants to not automating tenant provisioning, and offers strategies to avoid them.