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Beat the Plan: Probabilistic Strategies for Successful Software Delivery at Scale

Large-scale software delivery demands managing complexity across teams and organizations. Similarly to betting strategies in Vegas, embracing probabilistic thinking helps tackle uncertainty, shifting from rigid plans to adaptive systems. By making informed bets and designing for change, leaders can control volatility, respond to evolving conditions, and drive success in dynamic environments.

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Evolving Your Architecture: Essential Steps and Tools for Modernization

Camilla Crispim discusses aspects of architecture that require assessment, methods for conducting these assessments, and the tools available to facilitate the process and support decision-making.

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Dataflow-based Query Caching with Readyset

Alana Marzoev discusses the fundamentals of streaming dataflow and the architecture of ReadySet, a streaming dataflow system designed for operational workloads.

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Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. But that also provides opportunities for engineers to invent and shape the role of principal engineers.

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From Local to Production: a Modern Developer’s Journey towards Kubernetes

Urvashi Mohnani discusses the full developer experience of writing an application, containerizing it locally, deploying it to a Kubernetes cluster, and debugging Kubernetes applications locally.

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Summary

In this talk from RubyFringe, Damien Katz explains what drove him to create CouchDB, why he chose Erlang and more.

Bio

Damien Katz has worked for Lotus, MySQL, IBM and is the creator of CouchDB. He blogs at http://damienkatz.net/ .

About the conference

RubyFringe is an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging Ruby projects and technologies. They're mounting a unique and eccentric gathering of the people and projects that are driving things forward in our community.

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