InfoQ Homepage QCon Plus November 2020 Content on InfoQ
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Safe and Fast Deploys at Planet Scale
Mathias Schwarz discusses the software management, scalability used by Uber, and the need to have these done automatically by software.
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Improving Video Encoding System Efficiency @Netflix
Susie Xia discusses the video encoding system used by Netflix, and the tools and techniques used to analyze performance and to improve the system efficiency.
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User Simulation for Rapid Outage Mitigation
Carissa Blossom walks through the monitoring service that Uber developed to identify issues in production, and how they leveraged composable integration tests to cut the time to mitigation in half.
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The Functional Evolution of Object-Oriented Programming
James Ward and Joshua Suereth explain the evolutions happening in many OOP languages today and how to take advantage of those changes.
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DEI Is Rooted in Justice. Let's Stop Making It about Profit
Chanita Simms explores diversity, discussing why equity it’s important, providing some tools on how to foster inclusion within an organization.
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Change Data Capture for Distributed Databases @Netflix
Raghuram Onti Srinivasan covers the challenges associated with capturing CDC events from Cassandra, discussing the Flink ecosystem and the use of RocksDB.
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Live Interview: Phishing Techniques and Mitigations
Joe Gray talks about OSINT and phishing tactics.
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What Engineering Teams Need From Leaders Right Now
Lena Reinhard reviews skills and tools for engineering managers to help them lead teams successfully, and explore what it means to show up as a leader now.
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Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability
Elizabeth Carretto discusses observability at Netflix and where and how their internal tool, Edgar, comes into play.
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A Sticky Situation: How Netflix Gains Confidence in Changes
Haley Tucker discusses sticky canaries, what they are and how they can help, and how to build confidence in changes.
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Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
Mary-Frances Winters discusses the impact of Black fatigue not only on Blacks but on society as a whole.
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Utopia or Dystopia? 10 Ways Tech Will Destroy Us All! Or Will It?
Anne Currie discusses ethical issues in possibly misuse of computing power through killer robots, cyberwarfare, and mass surveillance.