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How to Build Observable Distributed Systems
Pierre Vincent covers key techniques to build distributed applications, including details on useful health checks, best practices for instrumentation with metrics, logging and tracing.
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With Great Scalability Comes Great Responsibility
Dana Engebretson covers the contextual pros and cons of a number of architectural patterns given real world scalability constraints.
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Custom App Auto-Scaler Using Cloud Controller API
Chris Decelles demos building a custom application auto-scaler using the Cloud Foundry’s controller API.
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Scaling Marketplaces at Thumbtack
Nate Kupp shares some of Thumbtack’s key learnings on their journey to scale and their future with fully-managed systems.
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Containers, Kubernetes and Google Cloud
Mete Atamel shows how to build a system, starting with a microservice, containerize it using Docker, and scale it to a cluster of resilient microservices managed by Kubernetes.
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Functional Performance
Martin Thompson discusses the most relevant laws governing software performance in the context of financial applications.
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Continuous Optimization of Microservices Using ML
Ramki Ramakrishna shares Twitter’s recent experience in applying Bayesian optimization to the performance tuning problem, discussing a service used for continuously optimizing microservices.
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Real-Time Monitoring with Grafana, StatsD and InfluxDB
Artur Prado presents a number of monitoring tools, how to use them and some code involved in tracking certain events.
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Understanding Python Memory at Instagram
Min Ni discusses how Python memory profiling is done at Instagram, insights from memory profiling data, and learnings from tuning and improving Python memory garbage collection.
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Caching for Microservices - Introduction to Pivotal Cloud Cache
Pulkit Chandra discusses how to use Pivotal Cloud Cache and its performance under load, demoing a Spring Boot app which uses Spring Data Geode to talk to a Pivotal Cloud Cache cluster.
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NDBench: Benchmarking Microservices at Scale
Vinay Chella and Ioannis Papapanagiotou discuss Netflix's Cloud benchmark system, how it was integrated with their release cycle, showcasing how multiple instances can be monitored from a single UI.
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Performance beyond Throughput: An OpenJ9 Case Study
Marius Pirvu talks about the new advancements in the area of JVM performance using the latest open source JVM technology at Eclipse OpenJ9 running with OpenJDK.