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Tesla's Virtual Power Plant
The speakers explore the architecture of the Tesla Energy Platform including the use of asset hierarchies, functional programming techniques, trade-offs in edge vs. cloud computing.
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Honeycomb: How We Used Serverless to Speed up Our Servers
Jessica Kerr reviews the benefits (user experience on demand!) and constraints (everything in AWS has a limit!) of serverless-as-accelerator, and gives practical advice.
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Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System
Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale.
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Data Versioning at Scale: Chaos and Chaos Management
Einat Orr discusses several technologies that version large data sets, the use cases they support and the technology developed to best support those use cases.
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How Starling Built Their Own Card Processor
Rob Donovan and Ioana Creanga discuss what happens behind the scenes when one pays with a card, and how Starling built their own card processor, integrating traditional hardware with microservices.
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How SeatGeek Successfully Handles High Demand Ticket On-Sales
Anderson Parra and Vitor Pellegrino discuss how their ticketing systems work and cover the virtual waiting room – the primary component that allows them to handle high-traffic ticket on-sales.
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Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix
Tejas Shikhare discusses how Netflix migrated to GraphQL and some of the problems they had to solve scaling it.
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Scaling the North Star of Developer Experience
Phillipa Avery discusses learnings from the back-end and product engineering perspective, gained while Netflix has grown from hundreds to thousands of engineers.
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Protecting User Data via Extensions on Metadata Management Tooling
Alyssa Ransbury overviews the current state of metadata management tooling, and details how Square implemented security on its data.
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K8s: Rampant Pragmatism in the Cloud at Starling Bank
Jason Maude explores Starling’s technical philosophy of rampant pragmatism and how they applied it to their delivery pipeline.
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Authorization at Netflix Scale
Travis Nelson discusses Netflix’s approach to scaling and shares techniques for distributed caching and isolating failure domains.
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Prod Lessons - Deployment Validation and Graceful Degradation
Anika Mukherji discusses lessons learned in production at Pinterest: deployment validation framework and product-informed graceful degradation, preventing hundreds of outages.