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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.
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Managing Tech Debt in a Microservice Architecture
Glenn Engstrand describes how Optum Digital engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of microservices.
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Netflix Drive: Building a Cloud Native Filesystem for Media Assets
Tejas Chopra discusses Netflix Drive, a generic cloud drive for storing and retrieving media assets, a collection of media files and folders in Netflix.
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Production Readiness: Fighting Fires or Building Better Systems?
Laura Nolan discusses why we don’t have a fire code for software, and what Production Readiness Reviews can and cannot achieve in terms of reliability.
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Enabling Engineering Productivity at the Financial Times
Sarah Wells discusses how they ended up moving fast with over 30,000 releases in a year from a development team of around 250.