InfoQ Homepage QCon Plus November 2021 Content on InfoQ
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Event-Based Architectures: the Hard Parts
Raymond Roestenburg and Sergey Bykov discuss event-driven architectures and some of the challenges they present.
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Netflix Drive: Building a Cloud Native Filesystem for Media Assets
Tejas Chopra discusses Netflix Drive, a generic cloud drive for storing and retrieving media assets, a collection of media files and folders in Netflix.
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The Programmer's Brain
Felienne Hermans dives into the cognitive processes that play a role when reading code, showing theories for reading code, and techniques that can be used to read any piece of code.
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API Showdown: REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC – Which Should You Use?
Alex Borysov, Matt McLarty and Michelle Garrett discuss REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, what it takes to get started, and when each is the right/wrong tool for the job.
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Production Readiness: Fighting Fires or Building Better Systems?
Laura Nolan discusses why we don’t have a fire code for software, and what Production Readiness Reviews can and cannot achieve in terms of reliability.
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Software Engineering – Then, Now, and Next
Mary Poppendieck discusses how software engineering has been changed by the scale and speed required of digital companies in the past, now, and in the future.
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Building & Operating High-Fidelity Data Streams
Sid Anand discusses building high-fidelity nearline data streams as a service within a lean team.
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Enabling Engineering Productivity at the Financial Times
Sarah Wells discusses how they ended up moving fast with over 30,000 releases in a year from a development team of around 250.
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The Spectrum of Synchronousness
James Stanier discusses shifting to asynchronous communication for remote working, going through a spectrum of options, plotting interactions on it, pre- and post- remote work.
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Lead with Speed
Courtney Kissler believes in speed for strong results. Tactics covered: outcome-based teams, making all work visible, limiting WIP, understanding velocity and viscosity, and architecture evolution.
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Federated GraphQL to Solve Service Sprawl at Major League Baseball
Olessya Medvedeva and Matt Oliver discuss how they have begun to implement a Federated GraphQL architecture to solve the issue of service discovery, sprawl and ultimately getting the data needed.
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Airbnb at Scale
Selina Liu walks through what it takes to decompose a large and complex monolith into independent, performant services, and how they evolve and scale the architecture with changing business needs.