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Incrementally Refactoring Your Habits with Psychology
Tilde Ann Thurium shares the story of how they hacked their habits to go from "mouse addict" to "Atom whiz” and dives into researched-backed psychological tips on how to incrementally refactor habits.
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Fantastic Front-End Performance Tricks & Why We Do Them
Jenna Zeigen covers the state of the art in front-end performance optimizations digging into the way the internet and browsers work to explain why each of these practices is important.
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Building a Voice Assistant for Enterprise
Manju Vijayakumar talks about Einstein Assistant - an AI Voice assistant for enterprises that enables users to "Talk to Salesforce".
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Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust?
Bryan Cantrill explores Rust, explains why it has captured the imagination of so many systems software engineers, and outlines where it might best fit in the deep stack of operating system software.
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Algorithms behind Modern Storage Systems
Alex Petrov talks about modern storage system approaches, discussing storage internals, evaluation techniques to choose a database best suitable for a certain data.
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Zero to Production in Five Months @ ThirdLove
Megan Cartwright discusses how ThirdLove built their first machine learning recommendation algorithm that predicts bra size and style.
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gVisor: Building and Battle Testing a Userspace OS in Go
Adin Scannell talks about gVisor - a container runtime that implements the Linux kernel API in userspace using Go.
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The Operating System in 2018
Justin Cormack discusses the current status of OSes, the languages used to write them and the growing presence of unikernels and microkernels.
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Caching Beyond RAM: The Case for NVMe
Alan Kasindorf explores the possibility of using new storage devices to reduce DRAM dependency for cache workloads and talks about use cases that optimize for different cache workloads.
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How to Make Linux Microservice-Aware with Cilium and eBPF
Thomas Graf talks about a new efficient in-kernel programming language called eBPF. It allows extending existing kernel components or glue them together in new forms without changing the kernel itself
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Day Two Kubernetes: Tools for Operability
Bridget Kromhout discusses what containers and Kubernetes clusters are at a high level, and looks into the practical application of open source tools to simplify cluster management.
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DevOps & Lean Thinking Panel
The panelists confront deep questions like, "How do you DevOps right?" and, "Is testing waste?" Find pointers about selecting incident commanders, DevOps under auditing constraints, and more.