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NUDGE – Role of Economics in Architecture and Design
Raghavendra Mithare explores the role behavioral economics has on individual choice, and the impact it has on system Architecture and Design.
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Upon Retrospective: the Board Went Agile
Sandra Davey and Alan Kirkland discuss their ‘accidental’ Agile journey, and how and why they’re practicing new ways of working.
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High Performance Cooperative Distributed Systems in Adtech
Stan Rosenberg explores a set of core building blocks exhibited by Adtech platforms and applies them towards building a fraud detection platform.
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Building a High-Performance Networking Protocol for Microservices
Robert Roeser and Arsalan Farooq talk about how techniques used in Fintech and Adtech can be used to improve performance in distributed applications.
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Becoming Agile vs Doing Agile
Rashina Hoda explains the key dimensions that need to transition during Agile transformations, highlighting what can be done to progress beyond simply doing Agile.
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Building and Operating a Serverless Data Pipeline
Will Norman discusses the motivations of switching to a serverless infrastructure, and lessons learned while building and operating such a system at scale.
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Bayesian Optimization of Gaussian Processes with Applications to Performance Tuning
Ramki Ramakrishna discusses using Bayesian optimization of Gaussian processes to optimize the performance of a microservices architecture.
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What Breaks Our Systems: A Taxonomy of Black Swans
Laura Nolan talks about Black Swan events - unforeseen, unanticipated, and catastrophic incidents - that may happen in production and can take the system down.
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How Did Things Go Right? Learning More from Incidents
Ryan Kitchens describes more rewarding ways to approach incident investigation without overly focusing on failure prevention.
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Opportunities and Pitfalls of Event-driven Utopia
Bernd Rücker goes over the concepts, the advantages, and the pitfalls of event-driven utopia. He shares real-life stories or points to source code examples.
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Alibaba Container Platform Infrastructure - a Kubernetes Approach
Fei Guo talks about Alibaba’s decision to fully integrate upstream Kubernetes into existing Alibaba container management system, and how they extended Kubernetes to help with their scalability needs.
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Robot Social Engineering: Social Engineering Using Physical Robots
Brittany Postnikoff covers some of the capabilities of physical robots, related human-robot interaction research, and the interfaces that can be used by a robot to social engineer humans.