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Building and Running Applications at Scale in Zalando
Pamela Canchanya shares practices and lessons learned when building and running critical business applications at scale.
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Datadog: a Real-Time Metrics Database for One Quadrillion Points/Day
Ian Nowland & Joel Barciauskas talk about the challenges Datadog faces, how the architecture has evolved, and what they are looking to in the future as they architect for a quadrillion points per day.
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Scaling DB Access for Billions of Queries Per Day @PayPal
Petrica Voicu and Kenneth Kang talk about Hera (High Efficiency Reliable Access to data stores) – an open-source in Go – and how it helps PayPal to manage database access and deal with issues.
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Culture: Startups Wish They Were Bigger, Big Companies Dream of Being Startup-ish. So what?
Luca Minudel tries to define what makes a start-up culture, and introduces a set of tools and techniques that he’s found useful in his work.
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Sink or Swim - Effective Collaboration between Eng & Product
Jean Barmash and Khadija Ali explain the nature of the relationship, key principles of effective collaboration, the roles and responsibilities of engineering lead, product manager, and design lead.
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Getting Real about Managing up
Kellan Elliott-McCrea talks about what to do when "put your head down and do your work" isn't getting the results we want.
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Orchestrating Continuous Experiments
Matteo Cavucci describes an outcome-first approach to strategy and prioritization, showing how it’s possible to balance team autonomy and a global product direction.
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Liberating Structures @CapitalOne
Greg Myers talks about Liberating Structures - a set of facilitation frameworks that enable shared ownership and inclusion - and shares practical applications that we can use in our workplace.
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Effective Communication - Get Buy-in Faster by Asking Better Questions
Roi Ben-Yehuda talks about one of the most valuable (but least-known) skills we need to communicate well and influence: how to use the right question at the right moment.
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Acceptance Testing for Continuous Delivery
Dave Farley describes approaches to acceptance testing that allow teams to work quickly and effectively, build functional coverage tests and maintain those tests throughout change.
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Self-selection for Resilience and Better Culture
Dana Pylayeva talks about “self selection” (empowering people to choose their own teams) as a great vehicle to build in happiness, resilience and a better culture.
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Breaking Hierarchy - How Spotify Enables Engineer Decision Making
Kristian Lindwall shares how Spotify approaches the problem of fully leveraging the capacity of everyone in the organization.