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Balancing Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication in Virtual Teams
Tammy Bjelland shows how to improve the balance of synchronous and asynchronous communication, and make a positive impact on a team and business outcomes with a simple-to-use framework.
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Netflix Networking: Beating the Speed of Light with Intelligent Request Routing
Sergey Fedorov discusses how to build the Internet latency map, using network protocols and edge infrastructure, and how to use a data-driven approach to evolve your client-server interactions.
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Production Infrastructure Cloning++: Reliability and Repeatability
JD Palomino discusses how they have developed a cloud and product-agnostic infrastructure pipeline to handle extra steps and custom configuration, with no special exceptions.
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The SRE as a Diplomat
Johnny Boursiquot discusses the unintended consequences of certain service ownership and operational models when SRE is seen as an outside unwanted influence, and how to build trust with those teams.
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Create Autonomous, Highly Productive Teams By Lowering the Stakes
Jason Lengstorf looks at architectural and organizational strategies to help teams move with less technical debt or maintenance burdens.
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Intentional Distributed Teams
Maria Gutierrez and Glenn Vanderburg discuss how a company can stay productive, creative, and driven when employees are at a distance from each other.
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Safe and Fast Deploys at Planet Scale
Mathias Schwarz discusses the software management, scalability used by Uber, and the need to have these done automatically by software.
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DEI Is Rooted in Justice. Let's Stop Making It about Profit
Chanita Simms explores diversity, discussing why equity it’s important, providing some tools on how to foster inclusion within an organization.
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Change Data Capture for Distributed Databases @Netflix
Raghuram Onti Srinivasan covers the challenges associated with capturing CDC events from Cassandra, discussing the Flink ecosystem and the use of RocksDB.
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What Engineering Teams Need From Leaders Right Now
Lena Reinhard reviews skills and tools for engineering managers to help them lead teams successfully, and explore what it means to show up as a leader now.
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Paving the Road to Production
Graham Jenson shares his experience of creating "paved roads" and deploying pipelines at Coinbase for the past five years, and what the advantages of doing that are.
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Communicating Effectively with Your Business Partners
Randy Shoup discusses both the mindset and the techniques needed to be able to listen, understand, and communicate with non-engineers, showing how to use these techniques in some common scenarios.