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Understanding CPU Microarchitecture to Increase Performance

Alex Blewitt presents the microarchitecture of modern CPUs, showing how misaligned data can cause cache line false sharing, how branch prediction works and when it fails, and how to read CPU specific performance monitoring counters and use that in conjunction with tools like perf and toplev to discover where bottlenecks in CPU heavy code live.

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Architecture & Design

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Infinite Parallel Universes: State at the Edge

Peter Bourgon describes the architecture and communication model of a global-scale, edge state system he is prototyping at Fastly. He shares the challenges of state management, when the speed of light can't be ignored.

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AI, ML and Data Engineering

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From POC to Production in Minimal Time - Avoiding Pain in ML Projects

Janet Bastiman describes how turning an AI proof of concept into a production ready, deployable system can be a world of pain, especially if different parts of the puzzle are fulfilled by different teams, going into technical details.

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Helen Bartimote and Jamie Dobson on Mental Health and Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Helen Bartimote and Jamie Dobson from Container Solutions about maintaining mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic

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DevOps

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eBPF - Rethinking the Linux Kernel

Thomas Graf talks about how companies like Facebook and Google use BPF to patch 0-day exploits, how BPF will change the way features are added to the kernel forever, and how BPF is introducing a new type of application deployment method for the Linux kernel.

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DevOps

GitHub Was down Multiple Times Last February: Here's Why

Sergio De Simone
on Mar 31, 2020
DevOps

Network Automation at Fastly

Helen Beal
on Mar 24, 2020
Development

TCMalloc, Google's Customized Memory Allocator for C and C++, Now Open Source

Sergio De Simone
on Feb 25, 2020 2
Architecture & Design

Dynein – an Asynchronous Background Job Service from Airbnb

Jan Stenberg
on Dec 31, 2019 3
DevOps

HAProxy EBtree: Design for a Scheduler, and Use (Almost) Everywhere

K Jonas
on Jul 18, 2019
Cloud

Microsoft Introduces Azure Front Door, a Scalable Service for Protecting Web Applications

Kent Weare
on Apr 08, 2019
DevOps

Scaling Graphite at Booking.com

Hrishikesh Barua
on Mar 30, 2019
DevOps

Scaling Apache Kafka at Pinterest

Hrishikesh Barua
on Dec 09, 2018 2
AI, ML & Data Engineering

The Evolution of Uber’s 100+ Petabyte Big Data Platform

Hrishikesh Barua
on Nov 10, 2018
DevOps

Scaling Global Traffic at Dropbox with Edge Locations and GSLB

Hrishikesh Barua
on Oct 27, 2018
Architecture & Design

Supercharging Marketo's Campaign Engine at Reactive Summit

Pierre-Luc Maheu
on Oct 24, 2018
Cloud

Amazon S3 Increases Request Rate Performance and Drops Randomized Prefix Requirement

Steffen Opel
on Oct 11, 2018

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Four Techniques Serverless Platforms Use to Balance Performance and Cost

Erwin van Eyk
on Feb 13, 2019 1
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Scaling a Distributed Stream Processor in a Containerized Environment

Sarangan Janakan Miyuru Dayarathna
on Jan 13, 2019
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Columnar Databases and Vectorization

Siddharth Teotia
on May 27, 2018
DevOps

Six Tips for Running Scalable Workloads on Kubernetes

Joel Speed
on Mar 30, 2018
.NET

Unleashing the Power of .NET Big Memory and Memory Mapped Files

Dmitriy Khmaladze
on Jul 12, 2017 15
DevOps

Developing a Secure and Scalable Web Ecosystem at LinkedIn

Mira Thambireddy James Baker
on Jun 30, 2017
.NET

On Abstractions and For-Each Performance in C#

Jonathan Allen
on Sep 29, 2016 2
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Virtual Panel: Current State of NoSQL Databases

Srini Penchikala
on Aug 02, 2016 2
Web API

Graph API in a Large Scale Environment

Maor Cohen
on Feb 13, 2016
.NET

Big Memory .NET Part 2 - Pile, Our Big Memory Solution for .NET

Dmitriy Khmaladze Leonid Ganeline
on Oct 13, 2015 22
.NET

Big Memory .NET Part 1 – The Challenges in Handling 1 Billion Resident Business Objects

Dmitriy Khmaladze Leonid Ganeline
on Oct 08, 2015 2
DevOps is Not a Feature!

Nati Shalom
on May 24, 2015

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Architecture & Design

Scaling Stack Overflow: Keeping it Vertical by Obsessing Over Performance

David Fullerton
on Oct 18, 2015 3

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How 30 Years of Ticket Transaction Data Helps you Discover New Shows!

Vaclav Petricek
on Aug 19, 2015

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Performance Testing Crash Course

Dustin Whittle
on Apr 25, 2015

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0 – 100 MPH - Launching a New Product at Scale

Dan Macklin
on Mar 15, 2015

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Spring Batch Performance Tuning

Gunnar Hillert Chris Schaefer
on Feb 14, 2015

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Not Exactly! Fast Queries via Approximation Algorithms

Nelson Ray Fangjin Yang
on Jan 20, 2015

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Architecture & Design

Scaling Gilt: from Monolithic Ruby Application to Distributed Scala Micro-Services Architecture

Yoni Goldberg
on Oct 30, 2014

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Scaling Foursquare: From Check-ins to Recommendations

Jon Hoffman
on Oct 26, 2014

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Scaling Chartbeat from 8 Million Open Browsers to Realtime Analytics and Optimization

Wesley Chow
on Oct 26, 2014

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Machine Learning at Netflix Scale

Aish Fenton
on Oct 07, 2014 4

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Scaling Continuous Deployment

Avleen Vig
on Sep 07, 2014

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