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How Much Does It Cost to Attack You?
Jarrod Overson describes the cost vs value justification of an attack, how it shifts over time, and why it means that silver bullets just don’t exist.
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Achieving Low-latency in the Cloud with OSS
Mark Price explores the improvements in cloud networking technology and outlines techniques for low-latency messaging from an application and operating-system perspective.
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Making a Lion Bulletproof: SRE in Banking
Robin van Zijll and Janna Brummel talk about the history, present and future of ING’s SRE team and practices. They share lessons learned that can be applied to any organization starting or growing SRE
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Building a High-performance Networking Protocol for Microservices
Robert Roeser and Arsalan Farooq talk about how techniques used in Fintech and Adtech can be used to improve performance in distributed applications.
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Big Data's Ethical Drought: The Thirst for More Data Has Led to a Lapse in Ethics and Privacy
Katharine Jarmul provides examples of data (mis)use and asking how we can work with data without violating the trust and privacy of users, producing an ethical product?
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Rust's Journey to Async/await
Steve Klabnik talks about Rust’s history, diving into the technical details of how the design has changed, and the difficulties of adding a major new feature to a programming language.
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Building and Operating a Serverless Data Pipeline
Will Norman discusses the motivations of switching to a serverless infrastructure, and lessons learned while building and operating such a system at scale.
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High Performance Remote and Distributed Teams
Randy Shoup discusses communication strategies for getting the best out of far-flung teams, as well as how to foster and maintain the human bonds and empathy critical to good work.
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How to Evolve Kubernetes Resource Management Model
Jiaying Zhang provides an overview of the current Kubernetes resource model and best practice guidance on managing compute resources and specifying application resource requirements on Kubernetes.
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Bayesian Optimization of Gaussian Processes with Applications to Performance Tuning
Ramki Ramakrishna discusses using Bayesian optimization of Gaussian processes to optimize the performance of a microservices architecture.
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What Breaks Our Systems: A Taxonomy of Black Swans
Laura Nolan talks about Black Swan events - unforeseen, unanticipated, and catastrophic incidents - that may happen in production and can take the system down.
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Graceful Degradation as a Feature
Lorne Kligerman talks about graceful degradation as an engineering goal which can be confidently tested with Chaos Engineering.
