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How to Design and Develop in an Inclusive Way
Molly Watt and Chris Bush discuss designing for people with specific visual, auditory, cognitive and mobility needs, accessibility features and challenges for certain users engaging digital services.
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Freeing the Whale: How to Fail at Scale
Oliver Gould discusses Finagle, a library providing a uniform model for handling failure at the communications layer, enabling Twitter to fail, safely and often.
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Framing Our Potential for Failure
Michelle Brush discusses modeling complex systems and architectural changes that could introduce new modes of failure, using examples from embedded systems to large stream processing pipelines.
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Automating Chaos Experiments in Production
Ali Basiri discusses the motivation behind ChAP (Chaos Automation Platform), how they implemented it, and how Netflix service teams are using it to identify systemic weaknesses.
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Designing Calm Technology
Amber Case discusses using Calm Technology to design the next generation of connected devices, covering notification styles, compressing information into other senses, and cognitive overhead.
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Looking inside a Race Detector
Kavya Joshi discusses the internals of the Go race detector and delves into the compiler instrumentation of the program, and the runtime module that detects data races.
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Practical Data Synchronization Using CRDTs
Dmitry Ivanov discusses the basic CRDTs implementations in Scala, explaining the advantages of these data structures to solve many synchronization problems as well as their limitations.
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Next-gen Start-up Cultures: Innovating as You Grow
Jim Plush discusses specific culture initiatives, team structures and management ideals that have worked for his team at CrowdStrike, their virtual team structure, the culture team and more.
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Applying Failure Testing Research @Netflix
Kolton Andrus and Peter Alvaro present how a “big idea” -- lineage-driven fault injection -- evolved from a theoretical model into an automated failure testing service at Netflix.
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ScyllaDB: Achieving No-Compromise Performance
Avi Kivity discusses ScyllaDB, the many necessary design decisions, from the programming language and programming model through low-level details and up to the advanced cache design, and more.
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Building a Debugging Mindset
Devon H O'Dell discusses how perceptions about one's own abilities influence goals and behaviors, and how to improve abilities and help others do the same starting with a simple shift in thinking.
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Build to Learn: Rapid Prototyping Methods
Sara Bayless da Costa discusses several prototyping methods helping to learn about product, gather quality feedback, and get the best version of a product out there as quickly as possible.