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GIF: The Image Format that Keeps Giving
Igor Wiedler discusses GIF topics: compression, patents, legal trials, boycotts, browsers, color palettes and binary numbers.
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ESPN Next Generation APIs Powering Web, Mobile, TV
Manny Pelarinos talks about the tension of optimizing APIs for different experiences, while supporting hundreds of endpoints and many web and mobile applications at scale.
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Containers, FTW!
Michael Hausenblas introduces containers, microservices and dealing with security, monitoring and troubleshooting using Apache Mesos/Marathon and Kubernetes.
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The Verification of a Distributed System
Caitie McCaffrey discusses the strategies for proving a correct system and less strenuous methods of testing, which can help increase our confidence that a system is doing the right thing.
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Patterns & Practices for Cloud-Based Microservices
Rachel Reese talks about the lessons she has learned at Jet.com on their way to developing the platform and how they’ve schooled themselves on what works and what doesn't for F# and microservices.
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Banking from the Future: Cryptocurrency Key Storage
Olaf Carlson-Wee examines various novel cryptosystems used to facilitate the secure storage of billions of dollars in global crypto banks.
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BOSH - Twenty Years of Deployment Lessons in One Tool
Colin Humphreys talks about how the Cloud Foundry community deploys the distributed system powering the one of the most successful open source platforms, along with details on the tooling used.
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The Twelve-Factor Container
Casey West uses twelve-factor app essay as a guide to discuss the do’s and dont’s of building and running containers, each factor providing an opportunity to consider avoiding certain anti-patterns.
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Using a Design Sprint to Accelerate Innovation
Rob Scherer and Rob Alford discuss the Design Sprint process used by Google Ventures, some of the changes made to it and lessons learned along the way.
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Membership, Dissemination and Population Protocols
Sean Cribbs discusses practical applications of academic research with a large scale distributed system, as well as membership and dissemination protocols and their application in practice.
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Applying Java 8 Idioms to Existing Code
Trisha Gee highlights the performance benefits of using Java 8, pros and cons, identifying code that makes sense to refactor with lambdas and streams, and what changes provide the most benefit.
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Chaos Kong - Endowing Netflix with Antifragility
Luke Kosewski describes Flow, how it adds value to a microservice architecture, what preconditions must be met for such a recovery mechanism to succeed, and tells the story of a 2015 Q4 outage.