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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.
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The Spectrum of Synchronousness
James Stanier discusses shifting to asynchronous communication for remote working, going through a spectrum of options, plotting interactions on it, pre- and post- remote work.
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Lead with Speed
Courtney Kissler believes in speed for strong results. Tactics covered: outcome-based teams, making all work visible, limiting WIP, understanding velocity and viscosity, and architecture evolution.
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Federated GraphQL to Solve Service Sprawl at Major League Baseball
Olessya Medvedeva and Matt Oliver discuss how they have begun to implement a Federated GraphQL architecture to solve the issue of service discovery, sprawl and ultimately getting the data needed.
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Create from Anywhere: the Netflix Workstations Story
Michelle Brenner discusses the studio Netflix has been building for their originals, the technology behind it and the challenges faced.
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Improving eBay's Development Velocity
Randy Shoup and Mark Weinberg discuss breaking down silos, measuring software delivery, continually reducing build, startup, PR validation, and deployment time, embedding experts in product teams.