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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Serverless JavaScript
Steve Faulkner discusses Bustle's entire serverless stack. He talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly, sharing real numbers from production systems.
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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. She discusses the system aspects that are important to the performance of such services.
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High Performance Managed Languages
Martin Thompson explores how their managed runtimes can equal, and even better in some cases, the performance of native languages.
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Performance Testing in Java
Ix-chel Ruiz and Andres Almiray talk about the tools, like JMeter and JMH, and some techniques that should make engaging in performance testing a rewarding experience.
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Building Hypermedia Clients
Todd Brackley demonstrates provisioning a network of data through a JavaScript client to show that there is no magic and talks through some of the major design issues.
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Straggler Free Data Processing in Cloud Dataflow
Eugene Kirpichov describes the theory and practice behind Cloud Dataflow's approach to straggler elimination, and the associated non-obvious challenges, benefits, and implications of the technique.
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Goodbye PrintGCDetails... and Other JDK 9 Changes!
Tony Printezis talks about the major changes and improvements coming in JDK 9 that will affect (but also help) anyone who's interested in Java performance monitoring, profiling, and tuning.
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Building Data Pipelines in Python
Marco Bonzanini discusses the process of building data pipelines and all the steps necessary to prepare data, focusing on data plumbing and going from prototype to production.
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Data Driven Products Now!
Dan McKinley discusses how Etsy is using data to validate their ideas and prototypes, turning some into real products.
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Practical Data Synchronization Using CRDTs
Dmitry Ivanov discusses the basic CRDTs implementations in Scala, explaining the advantages of these data structures to solve many synchronization problems as well as their limitations.
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Build to Learn: Rapid Prototyping Methods
Sara Bayless da Costa discusses several prototyping methods helping to learn about product, gather quality feedback, and get the best version of a product out there as quickly as possible.
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Speedup Your Java Apps with Hardware Counters
Sergey Kuksenko discusses how Performance Monitoring Unit works, what Hardware Counters are, which tools have friendship with Java and how to use HWC for speeding up our Java applications.