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Everything is a Plugin: How the Backstage Architecture Helps Platform Teams at Spotify and beyond Spread Ownership and Deliver Value
Pia Nilsson and Mike Lewis explain how the Backstage plugin system brings disparate pieces of functionality together, and walk through examples of how Backstage can be extended and interconnected.
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Incremental Data Processing with Apache Hudi
The presenters discuss an introduction to incremental data processing, contrasting it with the two prevalent processing models of today - batch and stream data processing.
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Thinking Like an Architect
Gregor Hohpe reflects on two decades working as an architect, ranging from the executive penthouse to the serverless engine room.
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Chronon - Airbnb’s End-to-End Feature Platform
Nikhil Simha discusses Airbnb's Feature Platform, focusing on the recent efforts to solve the challenges, specifically covering: core APIs, training data generation, feature serving and observability.
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Delivering Millions of Notifications within Seconds During the Super Bowl
Zhen Zhou discusses how they built/test an on-demand notification system, what it takes to manage cloud resources/site-reliability at the same time, and how to mitigate reliability issues.
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Unpacking How Ads Ranking Works @Pinterest
Aayush Mudgal discusses social media advertising, unpacking how Pinterest harnesses the power of Deep Learning Models and big data to tailor relevant advertisements to the pinners.
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Understanding Architectures for Multi-Region Data Residency
Alex Strachan discusses challenges to build multi-region data storages, understanding why and when a business needs to do this, who are the real stakeholders, and who owns what.
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Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla
Lily Mara and Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it.
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Several Components are Rendering: Client Performance at Slack-Scale
Jenna Zeigen discusses front-end performance issues encountered by Slack as they continue to grow and evolve the desktop app.
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Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal
Sergey Bykov discusses the concept of Durable Execution, with a real world example of how they used it to build the Control Plane for Temporal Cloud.
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Protecting APIs in Financial Services with Zero Trust Overlay Mesh Networks
Clint Dovholuk reviews the three components of OpenZiti's architecture: controller, edge routers, and SDKs, in addition to diving into the internal physical and logical architecture of OpenZiti.
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Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale
Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering.
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