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Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned
Moumita Bhattacharya explains how Netflix unifies search and recommendations using the "UniCoRn" model and leverages Transformer-based foundation models to personalize the experience for 300M+ users.
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Kraken's Serverless Architecture for Keeping the Grid Green
Kevin Bowman shares how Kraken Technology balances the UK’s 30GW energy grid using renewable sources.
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How to Unlock Insights and Enable Discovery within Petabytes of Autonomous Driving Data
Kyra Mozley explains Perception 2.0, shifting from rigid CV pipelines to semantic embeddings. She shares how Wayve uses foundation models & vector search to solve the edge case "needle in a haystack."
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Holistic Engineering: Organic Problem Solving for Complex Evolving Systems
Vanessa Formicola explains Holistic Engineering, the practice of factoring non-technical forces like HR policies and org structure into technical designs to prevent architecture decay and delays.
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Achieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success
Matthew Card explains how inclusive leadership drives success. He shares a framework for building trust, psychological safety, and personal resilience to create high-performing engineering cultures.
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Fast Eventual Consistency: inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io
Somtochi Onyekwere discusses Corrosion, Fly.io's eventual consistent service discovery tool. She explains how the networking team leverages SQLite and CRDTs to replicate data across 800+ nodes.
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How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton explains how Man Group built ArcticDB, a serverless database connecting directly to S3. He discusses using CRDTs to manage global state and leveraging immutable trees for atomicity.
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From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix
Naveen Mareddy and Sujana Sooreddy explain how Netflix monitors massive media encoding workflows. They discuss scaling to 1M+ trace spans and using Flink to unlock real-time business insights.
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Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant
Karthik Ramgopal and Daniel Hewlett explain LinkedIn’s shift to agentic AI. They share how a modular supervisor-sub-agent architecture and a centralized skill registry power the new Hiring Assistant.
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Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn from Junior Engineers
Beth Anderson explains how power distance and psychological safety impact engineering teams. She shares strategies for active listening and reverse mentoring to drive inclusive technical excellence.
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Ecologies and Economics of Language AI in Practice
Jade Abbott explains how to build sustainable AI using "Little LMs." She discusses environmental impacts, linguistic justice, and technical optimizations like quantization and model distillation.
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Lessons Learned from Shipping AI-Powered Healthcare Products
Clara Matos shares lessons from shipping AI in healthcare at Sword Health. She discusses building guardrails, utilizing LLM-as-a-judge evals, and optimizing RAG to ensure safety and reliability.
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