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Load Balancing is Impossible
Tyler McMullen discusses load balancing techniques and algorithms such as Randomized Least-conns, Join-Idle-Queue, and Load Interpretation.
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Moving from Monolithic Architecture to Spring Cloud and Microservices
Travis Cherry and Mary Ann Wayer discuss monolithic architectural patterns, JBoss apps, lessons learned moving to Spring MVC SPA, then microservices with Spring Boot, Netflix OSS and Spring Cloud.
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Advanced Spring Data REST
Covering the features added to Spring Data REST in recent releases, Oliver Gierke looks at how to integrate manually coded REST resources, tweak representations and work with lookup types.
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Scaling Dropbox
Preslav Le talks about how Dropbox’s infrastructure evolved over the years, how it looks today, as well the challenges and lessons learned on the way.
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Twitch Plays Pokémon: Twitch's Chat Architecture
John Rizzo introduces Twitch's chat's architecture, telling how their engineers investigated and worked through the issues in what turned out to be a make-or-break situation for the company.
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Intuition Engineering
Casey Rosenthal talks about a new discipline called Intuition Engineering and Vizceral, a tool they built at Neflix to process massive amounts of visual data in parallel.
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Elegant AWS Lambda
Mario Aquino demonstrates deploying services to the AWS Lambda platform, configuring these services, and interacting with them through logging and monitoring.
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Stranger Things: The Forces that Disrupt Netflix
Haley Tucker discusses how other systems may affect Netflix' services, strategies to protect their systems and make sure they won't fail even if things go wrong.
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What Comes after Microservices?
Matt Ranney talks about the limits that some companies have encountered in their large microservices deployments and some non-microservices approaches to those same problems.
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In-Memory Caching: Curb Tail Latency with Pelikan
Yao Yue introduces Pelikan, a framework to implement distributed caches such as Memcached and Redis.
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Creating Delightful Product Experiences with Micro-Interactions
Bob Duncan reviews the key ingredients of micro-interactions, sharing examples of successful ones and how they've shaped the products, discussing how to add micro-interactions to a workflow.
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How Slack Works
Keith Adams tours Slack's infrastructure from clients into the Slack datacenter, and around the various services that provide real-time messaging, search, voice calls, and custom emoji.