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What the Data Says: Emerging Technical Trends in Front-End and How They Affect You
Laurie Voss discusses the adoption of technical trends in web development, and uses data from over 16,000 responses to surveys of web developers to identify the key trends in front-end development.
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24/7 State Replication
Todd Montgomery discusses lessons learned in designing systems, especially those based on replicated state machines, that need to continue operating.when things go wrong.
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Tesla's Virtual Power Plant
The speakers explore the architecture of the Tesla Energy Platform including the use of asset hierarchies, functional programming techniques, trade-offs in edge vs. cloud computing.
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Honeycomb: How We Used Serverless to Speed up Our Servers
Jessica Kerr reviews the benefits (user experience on demand!) and constraints (everything in AWS has a limit!) of serverless-as-accelerator, and gives practical advice.
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Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System
Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale.
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Ubiquitous Caching: a Journey of Building Efficient Distributed and In-Process Caches at Twitter
Juncheng Yang discusses three trends in hardware, workload, and cache usage that shape the design of modern caches.
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Stress Free Change Validation at Netflix
Javier Fernandez-Ivern discusses why a high confidence change process for code bases is needed, how zero-noise diffs help close the confidence gap, and recommended practices for building a diff system
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Leveraging Determinism
Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services.
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API Evolution without Versioning
Brandon Byars patterns of evolution in addition to versioning, the tradeoffs that exist between API elegance, obviousness, and stability, broadening the conversation from API evolution to PM.
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From Zero to a Hundred Billion: Building Scalable Real-Time Event Processing at DoorDash
Allen Wang discusses the design of the event system including major components of event producing, event processing with Flink and streaming SQL, event format and schema validation.
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Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Microservices Patterns?!
Chris Richardson describes how dark energy and dark matter are excellent metaphors for the competing forces (a.k.a. concerns) that must be resolved by the microservices pattern language.
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Sidecars, eBPF and the Future of Service Mesh
Jim Barton discusses the challenges of service mesh today, along with the latest developments in what the service mesh community is doing to improve its implementations.