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Life of a Packet through Istio
Matt Turner talks about Istio - a service mesh for Kubernetes that offers advanced networking features. He gives insight into Istio’s full power, and its architecture.
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Graal: Not Just a New JIT for the JVM
Duncan MacGregor takes a look at the differences between C2 and Graal, what this can mean for the performance of a code, and what else is possible with this new JIT.
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FreshEBT
Ram Mehta talks about Fresh EBT - a mobile app used by over a million households each month to manage their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits - scaling the app nationwide.
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BBC iPlayer: Architecting for TV
David Buckhurst talks about BBC iPlayer and explores the challenges of TV application development. He touches on the next steps for iPlayer as they blur the lines between broadcast and IP television.
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Test-Driven Machine Learning
Detlef Nauck explains why the testing of data is essential, as it not only drives the machine learning phase itself, but it is paramount for producing reliable predictions after deployment.
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Airbnb’s Great Migration: Building Services at Scale
Jessica Tai recaps her QCon SF 2018 “Great Migration” presentation then continues the story with a focus on how Airbnb is building, operating, and scaling its expanding network of services.
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Peddle the Pedal to the Metal
Howard Chu gives tips and techniques for writing highly efficient and scalable software drawn from decades of experience. The talk is focused on programming in C.
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Reducing Risk of Credential Compromise @Netflix
Will Bengtson and Travis McPeak talk about Netflix Infrastructure Security.
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Continuous Profiling in Production: What, Why and How
Richard Warburton and Sadiq Jaffer talk about the ins and outs of profiling in a production system, the different techniques & approaches that help understand what’s really happening with a system.
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How to Tell Your Boss Story Points Are a Terrible Metric
L. Ince and C. Wilkinson look at the different measures found in software development, what they’re used for, highlight the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of measuring progress versus productivity
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Develop Hundreds of Kubernetes Services at Scale with Airbnb
Melanie Cebula identifies key problems that make out-of-the-box Kubernetes less friendly to developers, and strategies for addressing them, based on Airbnb’s experience.
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Novel Algos and Optimizations in JCTools Concurrent Queues
Nitsan Wakart follows several examples of optimizations, tradeoffs, implementation details from the JCTools library and explores the driving forces behind some of JCTools novel algorithms.