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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.
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Applying Concurrency Cookbook Recipes to SPEC JBB
Monica Beckwith talks about how she followed the recipes appearing in Doug Lea's cookbook and applied them to SPEC JBB, and reports her findings.
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QCon SF 2018: Security Panel
The panelists discuss current security issues and ways to mitigate them.
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Who Broke Prod? - Growing Teams Who Can Fail without Fear
Emma Button looks at some of the steps that leaders and team members can take to foster a culture of blameless failure that encourages innovation and collaboration.
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Cloud Native CI/CD with Jenkins X and Knative Pipelines
Christie Wilson, James Rawlings explain the CI/CD challenges in a cloud native landscape, show how Jenkins X rises to them by leveraging open source cloud native technologies like Knative Pipelines.