16:01
Bots & Messaging Application APIs
Jasmine Anteunis discusses integrating bots with messaging applications.
01:05:01
GitHub's GraphQL Future
Kyle Daigle shares why GitHub chose GraphQL, how it differs from REST, how GitHub went about implementing it, and how they're using it in production a year later.
40:45
Testing Web Services with QuickCheck
Thomas Arts discusses how to test web services with QuickCheck.
50:04
Modern Distributed Optimization
Matt Adereth talks about the Black-box optimization techniques, what’s actually going on inside of these black-boxes and discusses an idea of how they can be used to solve problems today.
43:00
What Came First: The Ordering of Events in Systems
Kavya Joshi explores the beautifully simple happens-before principle and delves into how happens-before is tracked in a distributed database like Riak.
21:58
Causal Modeling Using Software Called TETRAD V
Suchitra Abel introduces TETRAD and some of its components used for causal modeling to find out the proper causes and effects of an event.
44:35
Evaluating Machine Learning Models: A Case Study
Nelson Ray talks about on how to estimate the business impact of launching various machine learning models, in particular, those Opendoor uses for modeling the liquidity of houses.
47:15
Beyond REST: Coursera's Journey to GraphQL
Bryan Kane talks about why Coursera is transitioning to GraphQL and shares challenges and learnings from building their GraphQL assembly layer.
39:39
Rethinking CodeGen: IDL, Thrift, gRPC, Ohh My
Cameron Waeland discusses the evolution of Compass and presents their extensible code generation framework which is at the heart of their automatically generated REST to gRPC reverse proxy.
23:50
One and Only One Process in a Distributed System
Nathan Herald discusses the possibility to create a distributed system with one process representing every user / shared resource in Elixir.
52:40
Generating Unified APIs with Protocol Buffers and gRPC
Chris Roche and Christopher Burnett discuss how they extended the Protocol Buffer (PB) IDL to create unified APIs and data models, and how they used Envoy to move HTTP 1.1 services to gRPC.
42:04
Reasoning about Complex Distributed Systems
Erich Ess discusses technical tools needed to gain information on a complex system and practical approaches to convert that information into an actual understanding of the system.
