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Scaling Slack
Bing Wei examines the limitations that Slack's back-end ran into and how they overcame them to scale from supporting small teams to serving large organizations of hundreds and thousands of users.
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Bias in BigData/AI and ML
Leslie Miley discusses how inherent bias in data sets has affected things from the 2016 Presidential race to criminal sentencing in the United States.
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The Evolution of Reddit.com's Architecture
Neil Williams discusses the history of the systems that power reddit.com, looking at things that worked, things that didn't, and where they're going next.
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Architecting a Modern Financial Institution
Edward Wible and Rafael Ferreira discuss the key elements that make Nubank tick for millions of customers every day, and some key security decisions they made along the way.
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Scale @Reddit Triple Team Size w/o Losing Control
Nick Caldwell discusses his engineering team's approach to Agile development as they scaled from 40 to 120 engineers.
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The Anatomy of a Distributed System
Tyler McMullen talks through the components and design of a real system, built to perform very high volumes of health checks, done across a cluster of machines for reliability and scalability.
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How to Make a Spaceship
Julian Guthrie and Dan Kreigh tell the story of the Ansari X-Prize and discuss the construction/testing of the bullet-shaped SpaceShipOne.
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Patterns, Code Smells, and the Pragmatic Programmer
Jason McCreary discusses how a number of books from The Reading List - Implementation Patterns, Refactoring, Design Patterns, The Pragmatic Programmer - helped him with becoming a software engineer.
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Hard Rock: Behind the Music with Silverlight 2
Scott Stanfield presents the Hard Rock Memorabilia web site demoing Silverlight’s Deep Zoom. He also shows other projects to underline some of the Silverlight’s capabilities.
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Architecting Toronto.com with ASP.NET
Toronto.Com attracts over 700,000 visitors a month. Built in 1997, the old technology was expensive and time-consuming to maintain. Scott takes us through what it took to modernize this site to .NET.