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Using DevEx to Accelerate GraphQL Federation Adoption @Netflix
Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan discuss how they made certain Build vs Buy (open source) trade-offs and the socio-technical aspects of working with many teams on a single shared schema.
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User Simulation for Rapid Outage Mitigation
Carissa Blossom walks through the monitoring service that Uber developed to identify issues in production, and how they leveraged composable integration tests to cut the time to mitigation in half.
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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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Upgrade to Java 16 or 17
Johan Janssen describes the six-months release process of Java and why applications should use a recent version, the challenges of upgrading, and provides some tips to make the process easier.
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Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability
Elizabeth Carretto discusses observability at Netflix and where and how their internal tool, Edgar, comes into play.
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A Sticky Situation: How Netflix Gains Confidence in Changes
Haley Tucker discusses sticky canaries, what they are and how they can help, and how to build confidence in changes.
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From Monolith to Microservices
Sha Ma discusses how GitHub migrates from a monolith architecture to microservices, detailing some best practices.
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It’s Not Your Machine, It’s Your Code
Adekunle Adepoju discusses how limitations in the Linux kernel can lead to unneeded horizontal scale, and how to circumvent those and other limitations.
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The Medieval Census Problem
Andy Walker discusses the principles of distributed computing used in medieval times, and the need to understand high latency, low reliability systems, bad actors, data migration, and abstraction.
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Building Latency Sensitive User Facing Analytics via Apache Pinot
Chinmay Soman discusses how LinkedIn, Uber and other companies managed to have low latency for analytical database queries in spite of high throughput.
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Building Tech at Presidential Scale
Dan Woods discusses the unique challenges of building and running tech for a presidential cycle, highlighting the digital duct tape that held the pieces together and the data flowing.
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Service Mesh: Past, Present and Future
Idit Levine discusses the unique opportunities presented in service mesh for multi-cluster and multi-mesh operations.