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Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organizations
Emily Webber explores some common anti-patterns and the problems that those anti-patterns create, then shares some approaches and techniques to break those silos down to work together better.
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How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems
Joseph Lynch discusses the architecture of Netflix's stateful caches and databases, including how they capacity plan, bulkhead, and deploy software to their global, full-active, data topology.
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Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering
Charity Majors discusses how platform engineering teams are different from other engineering teams, and presents some of the ways they run into traps and other troubles.
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How to Apply a Product Mindset to Your Platform Team Tomorrow
Jelmer Borst explores the benefits and challenges of how organizations can make the shift from a traditional infrastructure team to "platform as a product".
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Setting Goals as a Staff+ Engineer
Sabrina Leandro discusses how to define your development journey as a staff+ engineer, figuring out what you should be working on, how to set your goals, and how to define your backlog of work.
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The Interaction between the Hybrid and Remote Working Revolution and Maintaining Our Mental Health
Helen Bartimote highlights the importance of addressing mental health and well-being in remote or hybrid working environments.
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Developing above the Cloud
Paul Biggar talks about Darklang, a language designed to run on the cloud. By combining many things below the programming language abstraction layer, it resulted in less complexity for the developer.
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Eventual Consistency – Don’t Be Afraid!
Susanne Braun shares her experiences from different case studies with industry clients, and open access design guidelines developed using action research.
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Using Traffic Modeling to Load-Balance Netflix Traffic at Global Scale
Niosha Behnam and Sergey Fedorov discuss how Netflix shifted from geo-based DNS load-balancing to a latency-based approach, relying on real-user measurements and building a model of Netflix traffic.
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Performance: Adventures in Thread-per-Core Async with Redpanda and Seastar
John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture.
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Psychological Safety for Staff+ Engineers
Jitesh Gosai discusses what psychological safety is, why it matters to software teams and how Staff+ engineers can foster environments high in psychological safety.
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Providing a Personalized Experience to Millions of Users @BBC
Manisha Lopes discusses levers available to tune a cloud application, aligning the Data Model with the usage patterns for the data, using Performance Tests to benchmark an application, and others.