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Harnessing Exotic Hardware: Charting the Future of JVM Performance
Monica Beckwith discusses the world of the JVM and its evolving relationship with exotic hardware. She presents a hypothetical scenario where GPU optimization plays a pivotal role.
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An Incident Story: Tips for How Staff+ Engineers Can Impact Incidents
Erin Doyle discusses her experience with a critical 3-day-long incident and how she missed a key opportunity to help prevent the incident and how to build a culture to prevent similar situations.
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Pulumi Adventures: How Python Empowered My Infrastructure beyond YAML
Adora Nwodo discusses her journey from backend software engineering into the realm of DevOps, exploring how Pulumi became the pivotal tool that empowered her transition.
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Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer
Caleb Hyde discusses their career progression and regressions, as well the context they used to figure out what to work on and whom to work with, distilling a framework to utilize in one’s own work.
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Generative Search: Practical Advice for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Sam Partee discusses Vector embeddings in LLMs, a tool capable of capturing the essence of unstructured data used by LLMs to gain access to a wealth of contextually relevant knowledge.
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Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation
Sarah Aslanifar discusses leveraging continuous learning to drive efficiency, eliminate waste, and significantly improve product outcomes, covering the crucial role of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).
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Defensible Moats: Unlocking Enterprise Value with Large Language Models
Nischal HP discusses risk mitigation, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework implementation to achieve sustainability goals, strategic procurement, spend analytics, data compliance.
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The Incident Lifecycle: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals
Vanessa Huerta Granda describes how to apply resilience throughout the incident lifecycle in order to turn incidents into opportunities, looking at real-life examples.
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Fast, Scalable, Secure: WebAssembly and the Future of Isolation
Tal Garfinkel discusses the isolation technologies that underlie WebAssembly, and the limitations of the current state-of-the-art.
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Kubernetes without YAML
David Flanagan discusses using programming languages to describe Kubernetes resources, sharing constructs to deploy Kubernetes resources, and making Kubernetes resources testable and policy-driven.
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Building a Successful Platform: Acceleration, Autonomy & Accountability
Smruti Patel discusses successful platform adoption. She explores topics including failed platform-building efforts, the three pillars of a successful platform, and more.
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Unpacking How Ads Ranking Works @Pinterest
Aayush Mudgal discusses social media advertising, unpacking how Pinterest harnesses the power of Deep Learning Models and big data to tailor relevant advertisements to the pinners.
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