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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.
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Winston: Helping Netflix Engineers Sleep at Night
Sayli Karmarkar discusses Winston, a monitoring and remediation platform built for Netflix engineers.
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Petabytes Scale Analytics Infrastructure @Netflix
Tom Gianos and Dan Weeks discuss Netflix' overall big data platform architecture, focusing on Storage and Orchestration, and how they use Parquet on AWS S3 as their data warehouse storage layer.
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Keep Calm and Carry on: Scaling Your Org
Charity Majors talks about what it means to do quality operations and software engineering in the year 2016 and beyond, as well as the implications for engineering teams and social systems.
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Scaling the Data Infrastructure @Spotify
Mārtiņš Kalvāns and Matti Pehrs overview the Data Infrastructure at Spotify, diving into some of the data infrastructure components, such us Event Delivery, Datamon and Styx.
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Scaling Counting Infrastructure @Quora
Chun-Ho Hung and Nikhil Garg discuss Quanta, Quora's counting system powering their high-volume near-real-time analytics, describing the architecture, design goals, constraints, and choices made.
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Scaling Quality on Quora Using Machine Learning
Nikhil Garg talks about the various Machine Learning problems that are important for Quora to solve in order to keep the quality high at such a massive scale.
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Query Understanding: a Manifesto
Daniel Tunkelang talks about what search looks like when viewed through a query understanding mindset. He focuses on query performance prediction, query rewriting, and search suggestions.
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Implementing Microservices Tracing with Spring Cloud and Zipkin
Marcin Grzejszczak and Reshmi Krishna describe how to do distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin, demoing incorporating these technologies into an existing stock trading application.
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How to Properly Blame Things for Causing Latency: An Introduction to Distributed Tracing and Zipkin
Adrian Cole overviews how to debug latency problems using call graphs created by Zipkin, taking a look at the ecosystem, including tools to trace Ruby, C#, Java and Spring Boot apps.
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Load Balancing is Impossible
Tyler McMullen discusses load balancing techniques and algorithms such as Randomized Least-conns, Join-Idle-Queue, and Load Interpretation.
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Scaling Dropbox
Preslav Le talks about how Dropbox’s infrastructure evolved over the years, how it looks today, as well the challenges and lessons learned on the way.