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Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
Anirudh Mendiratta and Benjamin Fedorka explain how Netflix handles massive traffic storms using service-level prioritized load shedding and client-side attempt budgets to protect critical path APIs.
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The Time it Wasn't DNS
Sean Klein explains how Azure handles massive outages using modern incident analysis. Moving past the "Five Whys," he shares how systemic factors—not operator error—caused the 2023 global WAN outage.
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Write-Ahead Intent Log: a Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale
Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel explain why they outgrew traditional CDC at scale. They share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) using a proxy layer to decouple data replication.
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Automating the Web with MCP: Infra that Doesn’t Break
Paul Klein explains how to automate the web with MCP. He shares architectural strategies for running multi-tenant, cloud-hosted Chromium sandboxes to power AI browsing agents.
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Confidently Automating Changes across a Diverse Fleet
Netflix engineer Casey Bleifer explains how the company is automating fleet-wide code changes and migrations at scale, driving adoption timelines down from months to mere days with confidence.
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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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Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix
Netflix Engineers Vidhya Arvind and Shawn Liu discuss the pillars of safe, large-scale data deletion. They explain strategies to eliminate data ghosts and manage tombstone resource contention.
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The Human Toll of Incidents & Ways to Mitigate it
Kyle Lexmond discusses the human side of major system failures. He shares psychological insights and architectural tactics for surviving high-pressure incident rooms.
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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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From Legacy to Sovereignty: Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering
Sergiu Petean explains how to navigate the evolution from legacy systems to platform engineering. He shares data-driven insights on balancing DORA metrics, compliance, and strategic AI integration.
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The Ironies of A^2 I^2
J. Paul Reed explains the "ironies of automation" and AI in incident response. He discusses how reliance on AI can erode manual skills and camouflage system failures during high-stakes outages.
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Powering the Future: Building Your GenAI Infrastructure Stack
Merrin Kurian discusses Intuit’s GenOS, a generative AI operating system powering agents for 100M users. She explains the transition from chat assistants to "done-for-you" autonomous experiences.
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