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Always Available
Claudio Ortolina discusses leveraging Elixir/OTP tools to provide continuous service even when a database is down, walking through the refactoring of an Elixir/Phoenix/PostgreSQL application.
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Homoiconicity: It Is What It Is
Stuart Sierra demonstrates the power that comes from having the same data representation at all layers: programming language, specification, database, inter-process communication, and user interface.
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Do We Need Another Key-Value Store?
Hendrik Muhs introduces Keyvi, a key-value store based on 'finite state', describing the concepts, explaining what makes it different and where it is useful.
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Nonconformist Resilience: DB-backed Job Queues
John Mileham presents how they use, deploy Delayed::Job (a database-backed job queue) at Betterment for its transactional enqueue semantics, safe retry with exponential backoff, and its storage model.
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Enabling High Performance Real-time Analytics for IoT Environments
Mahish Singh discusses how to use methodologies during design, development, deployment and operation for delivery of analytics platforms which offer real-time SLAs.
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Architecture & Algorithms Powering Search @ZocDoc
Brian D'Alessandro and Pedro Rubio talk about the patient friendly search system they have built at Zocdoc using various products from the AWS stack and custom Machine Learning pipelines.
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Orchestrating Chaos: Applying Database Research in the Wild
Peter Alvaro describes LDFI’s (Lineage-driven Fault Injection) theoretical roots in database research, presenting early results from the field and opportunities for near and long-term future research.
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Managing Thousands of Data Services @Heroku
Gabriel Enslein discusses the evolution of fleet orchestration, immutable infrastructure, security auditing for managing data services for many Salesforce customers.
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Scaling with Apache Spark
Holden Karau looks at Apache Spark from a performance/scaling point of view and what’s needed to handle large datasets.
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Managing Data in Microservices
Randy Shoup shares microservices managing data patterns from Google, eBay, and Stitch Fix., talking on the need to access the data only through microservice's interface, communicate through events.
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Serverless Design Patterns with AWS Lambda: Big Data with Little Effort
Tim Wagner discusses Big Data on serverless, showing working examples and how to set up a CI/CD pipeline, demonstrating AWS Lambda with the Serverless Application Model (SAM).
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Power of the Log:LSM & Append Only Data Structures
Ben Stopford talks about the beauty of sequential access and append only data structures in the context of “Log Structured Merge Trees”.