45:36
Practical Cryptography & Blockchain Panel
The panel discusses the most important trends involving the blockchain today and fields questions from the audience. Topics covered: smart contracts, oracles, sidechains, and blockchains.
35:24
Observability, Event Sourcing and State Machines
Peter Lawrey explains the use cases and practicalities for having downstream services consuming all of the state changes of an upstream service in order to provide automated insight of services.
43:15
Avoiding Alerts Overload from Microservices
Sarah Wells talks about the FT team that currently has over 150 microservices in production. Wells shares how her team regain control of their inboxes and their time, and offers some tips and tricks.
41:57
After Acceptance: Reasoning About System Outputs
Stefanos Zachariadis discusses techniques for bringing testing to production, showing how to sanity check a live system using end to end testing, and limiting interference with real users.
44:57
Monitoring Serverless Architectures
Rafal Gancarz provides an overview of monitoring capabilities required for serverless apps -metering, logging, tracing, auditing, alerting-, and helpful AWS services.u
45:19
Do You Really Know Your Response Times?
Daniel Rolls talks about the use of histogram metrics to monitor response times, explains how reservoir sampling can help, and shares good and bad practices when monitoring response times.
31:56
Power of the Log:LSM & Append Only Data Structures
Ben Stopford talks about the beauty of sequential access and append only data structures in the context of “Log Structured Merge Trees”.
41:05
Property-based Testing in Practice
Alex Chan talks about property-based testing and this style of testing through the lens of two libraries: Hypothesis and AFL, with examples and testing patterns that we can apply in other code.
51:34
Panel: What's Next for Our Programming Languages?
Martin Thompson asks the hard questions on choices made and moderates the discussion between the people behind some of the largest and most innovative languages in use by developers today.
50:29
Pony: Co-designing a Type-system and a Runtime
Sylvan Clebsch talks about Pony, an actor-model, capabilities-secure, native programming language.
52:57
Using FlameGraphs to Illuminate the JVM
Nitsan Wakart talks about FlameGraphs, a new way to visualize execution profiles and explores the JVM and Java applications using this perspective and the profiles and the utility of this new method.
51:39
Event Sourcing on the JVM
Greg Young looks at Event Sourcing as a concept as well as specific JVM-based implementations that are available. He focuses on where such an implementation would be beneficial or not.
