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Practical Performance Tuning for Serverless Java on AWS
AWS Hero Vadym Kazulkin discusses optimizing serverless Java on AWS Lambda. He explains how to slash cold start latencies below one second using managed SnapStart, priming, and GraalVM AOT.
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Confidently Automating Changes across a Diverse Fleet
Netflix engineer Casey Bleifer explains how the company is automating fleet-wide code changes and migrations at scale, driving adoption timelines down from months to mere days with confidence.
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Beyond Speed Limits: Exploring the Performance Power of Valkey
Viktor Vedmich explains how to achieve sub-millisecond application latency using Valkey, an open-source, high-performance in-memory fork of Redis supported by AWS.
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Evolution of a Backend for a Streaming Application
Daniele Frasca shares how to scale streaming apps for millions of users using serverless patterns. Learn to eliminate single points of failure, improve data consistency, and master multi-region.
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Duolingo's Kubernetes Leap
Franka Passing explains Duolingo's migration from AWS ECS to EKS, discussing how they built a foundation with Argo CD and Karpenter to enable blue-green deployments for 128M+ active users.
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How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton explains how Man Group built ArcticDB, a serverless database connecting directly to S3. He discusses using CRDTs to manage global state and leveraging immutable trees for atomicity.
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Architecting Planet Scale, Modern Apps in the Cloud
George Mao discusses the five stages of maturity for building a planet-scale, global, and highly available architecture using fully serverless, cloud-native services (GCP/AWS).
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Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required
Louis Ryan discusses the evolution of networking for applications. Learn how to overcome the "Big IP" problem and the SPOF of "Big Proxy" by adopting identity-oriented and repeatable network controls.
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Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust
Emma Yuan Fang discusses how to apply Zero Trust principles to secure the software supply chain and CI/CD pipeline, detailing mitigation for major attacks like SolarWinds and dependency confusion.
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The Way We Manage Compliance is Wrong… and is Changing! Bringing DevOps Principles to Controls and Audit
Ian Miell shares the open-source Continuous Compliance Framework, discussing how to revolutionize audits. He explains shifting from periodic checks to continuous monitoring with DevOps and OSCAL.
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Things SaaS Builders Keep Getting Wrong
Jon Topper shares the most common mistakes he sees SaaS builders make, from building things no one wants to not automating tenant provisioning, and offers strategies to avoid them.
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High Performance Serverless with Rust
Benjamen Pyle discusses high-performance serverless with Rust on AWS Lambda, covering multi-Lambda projects, the Lambda runtime and SDK, and IaC for cost-effective, scalable solutions.