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Beyond Ad-hoc Automation: To Structured Platforms
Bridget Kromhout discusses how to work with the right level of abstraction with DevOps tooling, how different DevOps pieces fit together into a cohesive solution.
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Crossroads of Asynchrony and Graceful Degradation
Nitesh Kant describes how embracing asynchrony in Netflix applications, from networking to business processing, creates gracefully degrading and highly resilient applications.
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Demystifying Stream Processing with Apache Kafka
Neha Narkhede describes Apache Kafka and Samza: scalability and parallelism through data partitioning, fault tolerance, order guarantees, stateful processing, and stream processing primitives.
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Securing Code Through Social Engineering
Christina Camilleri shows how social engineering can change the way security is woven into testing, operations, and development workflows to better secure code against human threats.
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Android Apps, an Attacker’s Perspective
Tony Trummer focuses on how to apply an adversarial perspective when building Android applications, how to identify attack surfaces and the thought process attackers use.
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Applications Through an Attacker’s Lens
Michael Coates explores how attackers target, analyze and compromise applications and discusses recent high profile compromises and deconstructs them to understand exactly what went wrong.
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Improving Cloud Security with Attacker Profiling
Bryan Payne provides a clear understanding of different types of attackers, their skill sets, and how compromises happen, with a specific focus on protecting cloud-based applications.
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DIY Monitoring: Build Your Own JVM Performance Management Tool
Tal Weiss shows how you can easily write your own JVM agent to capture accurate performance data for virtually any type of application from Java microservices to reactive actor systems in Scala.
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Debugging Microservices in Production
Bryan Cantrill describes the debugging techniques employed at Joyent, and shares real stories from the trenches - and how those painful experiences resulted in better tools and better methodologies.
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Designing C# 7
Lucian Wischik discusses the design process for C# 7, which is being designed in the open, with eager community participation on GitHub and elsewhere, and the language features that are taking shape.
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Go GC: Prioritizing Low Latency and Simplicity
Rick Hudson discusses the motivation, performance, and technical challenges of Go's low latency concurrent GC and why the approach fits Go well.
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LinkedIn's Active/Active Evolution
Erran Berger discusses how they scaled architecture at LinkedIn across multiple data centers.