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Whispers in the Chaos: Monitoring Weak Signals
J. Paul Reed looks at what the safety sciences have to say about humans operating complex socio-technical systems, including how resilience engineering can help, and more.
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DevOps for the Database
Baron Schwartz explores real-life stories that answer two questions: “Why is it hard to apply DevOps principles and practices to databases, and how can we get better at it?”
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Crisis to Calm: Story of Data Validation @ Netflix
Lavanya Kanchanapalli discusses safe data propagation at Netflix, circuit breakers, data canaries and staggered rollout effective, and efficient validations via sharing data and isolating change.
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Connecting, Managing, Observing, and Securing Services
Zack Butcher talks about how a service mesh helps with the transition from monoliths to microservices, to empower operations teams, and to adopt security best-practices.
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Nearline Recommendations for Active Communities @LinkedIn
Hema Raghavan focusses on technologies they have built to power LinkedIn’s “People You May Know” product and describes their nearline platform for notification recommendation.
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Reactive DDD—When Concurrent Waxes Fluent
Vaughn Vernon gives practical guidance on using DDD to model business-driven solutions that result in software that is fluent, type-safe, and with core Reactive properties.
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Human-centric Machine Learning Infrastructure @Netflix
Ville Tuulos discusses the tools Netflix built for the data scientists and some of the challenges and solutions made to create a paved road for machine learning models to production.
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CRDTs in Production
Dmitry Martyanov talks about how PayPal developed a distributed system dealing with consistency issues and shares lessons learned in developing the system based on an eventually consistent data store
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Building Resilience in Production Migrations
Sangeeta Handa shares Netflix’s migration stories, what helped them build resilience, why resilience is important, and what Netflix Billing Infrastructure is doing to avoid taking downtime.
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Scaling Slack - The Good, the Unexpected, and the Road Ahead
Mike Demmer talks about the major changes that Slack has made to the service architecture to meet the needs for larger and larger enterprise customers.
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Netflix Play API - An Evolutionary Architecture
Suudhan Rangarajan talks about what patterns Netflix observed in their previous architectures and how they arrived at a list of practices to create an Evolutionary Architecture.
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Paying Technical Debt at Scale - Migrations @Stripe
Will Larson talks about why migrations are the only mechanism to effectively manage technical debt as their company and code grow, and what makes running them so hard.