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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.
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The Evolution of Reddit.com's Architecture
Neil Williams discusses the history of the systems that power reddit.com, looking at things that worked, things that didn't, and where they're going next.