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Designing Services for Resilience: Netflix Lessons
Nora Jones talks about designing microservices for enabling resiliency testing and the moving parts we need to consider when designing them from the get go, and along their lifetime.
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NDBench: Benchmarking Microservices at Scale
Vinay Chella and Ioannis Papapanagiotou discuss Netflix's Cloud benchmark system, how it was integrated with their release cycle, showcasing how multiple instances can be monitored from a single UI.
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Testing in Production - Quality Software Faster
Michael Bryzek discusses building software with no dev, QA or staging environments, diving into “verifying in production” - what it takes to build software tested continuously in production.
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Polyglot Persistence Powering Microservices
Roopa Tangirala takes a look at Netflix’s common platform used to manage, maintain, and scale persistence infrastructures, sharing the benefits, pitfalls, and lessons learned along the way.
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Service-Oriented Development
Rafael Schloming talks about how the real goal of microservices is to break up a monolithic development workflow. He shows how to build software enabling to move fast and make things.
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ML for Question and Answer Understanding @Quora
Nikhil Dandekar discusses how Quora extracts intelligence from questions using machine learning, including question-topic labeling, removing duplicate questions, ranking questions & answers, and more.
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Design for Continuous Evolution
Eric Brewer explores continuous evolution -adding features easily to a running service- a key to high velocity in development, focusing on immutability to decouple specification from instantiation.
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“GameDay” – Achieving Resilience through Chaos Engineering
Pete Cohen and Matt Fellows discuss GameDay and chaos engineering, what they are, and how they were done successfully by some organizations.
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Scaling Slack
Bing Wei examines the limitations that Slack's back-end ran into and how they overcame them to scale from supporting small teams to serving large organizations of hundreds and thousands of users.
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Monitoring Modern Architectures with Data Science
Dave Casper talks about how modern data science and algorithms are being applied to "fight machines with machines".
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Avoiding Alerts Overload from Microservices
Sarah Wells shares the experiences of reaching over 150 microservices in production after starting to build a microservices-based system from scratch only two years go. She offers tips and tricks.
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Is Docker Dead?
Nic Jackson compares and contrasts the development and deployment flow for both a Docker and a Serverless project, attempting to see if Docker has already been made obsolete by serverless.