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Powering Flexible Payments in the Cloud with Kubernetes
Ana Calin covers the technical and security challenges Paybase faced and the lessons they learned as they built their cloud-native microservices architecture and integrated with traditional systems.
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Panel: Bleeding Edge at Hyperspeed with No Breaks and No Breaches
The panelists talk about the risks of continuous deployment, how to be safe and secure when releasing many times a day or how to convince regulators, auditors and customers.
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Change Is the Only Constant
Stuart Davidson talks about real-world examples from Skyscanner where he thinks the decisions they've made have helped them deal with change and which might be interesting to a technical audience.
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Corda: Looking Forward and Back, Blockchain on a JVM Stack
Carolyne Quinn and Mike Ward discuss Corda, an open source enterprise blockchain, and look at technologies used: Kotlin, JVMs, pluggable consensus, Corda Foundation and SGX,.
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Practical NLP for the Real World
Emmanuel Ameisen discusses examples of how to build practical applications using NLP, diving into data visualization and labelling, as well as model validation.
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Federated Learning: Rewards & Challenges of Distributed Private ML
Eric Tramel discusses the basic concepts underlying the federated ML approach, the advantages it brings, as well as the challenges associated with constructing federated solutions.
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Michelangelo Palette: A Feature Engineering Platform at Uber
Amit Nene and Eric Chen discuss the infrastructure built by Uber for Michelangelo ML Platform that enables a general approach to Feature Engineering across diverse data systems.
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Instrumentation, Observability & Monitoring of Machine Learning Models
Josh Wills discusses the monitoring and visibility needs of machine learning models in order to bridge gaps between ML practitioners and DevOps.
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Habito: The Purely Functional Mortgage Broker
Will Jones talks about Haskell at Habito, some of the wins and trade-offs. He also talks about why functional programming is beneficial for large projects, and with migrating a data store.
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Balancing Risk and Psychological Safety
Andrea Dobson focuses on understanding the principles of the learning organizations, who can benefit, how to implement, and covers risks, pitfalls and effects of the learning organizational culture.
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The Future of Operating Systems on RISC-V
Alex Bradbury gives an overview of the status and development of RISC-V as it relates to modern operating systems, highlighting major research strands, controversies, and opportunities to get involved
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Privacy: The Last Stand for Fair Algorithms
Katharine Jarmul discusses research related to fair-and-private ML algorithms and privacy-preserving models, showing that caring about privacy can help ensure a better model overall and support ethics