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Architecture for Flow with Wardley Mapping, DDD, and Team Topologies
Susanne Kaiser illustrates the concepts of DDD, Wardley Mapping and Team Topologies, and demonstrates how these techniques help to evolve a fictitious legacy system for a fast flow of change.
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Creating an Atmosphere of Psychological Safety
Tim Berglund discusses creating an atmosphere of psychological safety for a team and the impact it can have.
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Analyzing Codebases for Fun and Profit
Jordan Bragg discusses using entry-points, breadth-first scanning, and operation tagging to demystify the domain, see where to dive deeper, and uncover what technical debt may exist.
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Understanding JIT Optimizations by Decompilation
Chris Seaton shows how they have developed a pseudo-code decompiler for optimized Java code, and how it helps them understand how the Java JIT compiler is working in order to improve their code.
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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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Panel: the True Bottleneck in Software Engineering - Cognitive Load
The panelists discuss making decisions in software development, postulating that the core limitation is how much we can know: how much we can hold in our heads, and how quickly we can learn.
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Incidents, PRRs, and Psychological Safety
Nora Jones discusses the context around PRRs and provides takeaways on how one can improve production reliability.
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Panel: Real-World Production Readiness
The panelists discuss production readiness, the “practice” of SRE, how data comes to production readiness, and strategies for resiliency.
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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.