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Deep Learning for Application Performance Optimization
Zoran Sevarac presents his experience and best practice for autonomous, continuous application performance tuning using deep learning.
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Large Scale Architectures Panel
Karen Casella explores architectural issues with a panel of experts from some of the world's largest architectures.
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Skype's Journey from P2P: It's Not Just about the Services
Bruce Lowekamp discusses the evolution of Skype's architecture and tradeoffs in design made along the way, the lessons learned and the improvements that are still in process as Skype evolves.
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Closer to the Wire: Real-Time News Alerting @Bloomberg
Katerina Domenikou talks about how her team built the Bloomberg real-time alerting platform using open source search technology, and explores the challenges that arise at that scale.
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Scaling Push Messaging for Millions of Devices @Netflix
Susheel Aroskar talks about Zuul Push - a massively scalable push notification service that handles millions of "always-on" persistent connections from all Netflix apps.
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Canopy: Scalable Distributed Tracing & Analysis @ Facebook
Haozhe Gao and Joe O’Neill present Canopy, Facebook’s performance and efficiency tracing infrastructure. They talk about the lessons learned and present case studies of its use.
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The History of Fire Escapes
Tanya Reilly looks at what can be learned from real world fire codes about expecting failure and designing for it.
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A Brief, Opinionated History of the API
Joshua Bloch discusses the history of APIs and looks at a few prominent examples with an eye to distilling their essence.
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Lyft's Envoy: Embracing a Service Mesh
Matt Klein explains why Lyft developed Envoy, focusing primarily on the operational agility that the burgeoning service mesh paradigm provides, with a focus on microservice networking observability.
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Developers as a Malware Distribution Vehicle
Guy Podjarny discusses risk management with examples from role models inside and outside of tech. Podjarny explains cognitive biases and how good security constraints can actually help move faster.
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Forced Evolution: Shopify's Journey to Kubernetes
Niko Kurtti talks about the challenges Shopify saw in moving from a traditional host-based infrastructure to a cloud native one, moving not only their core app to Kubernetes but also other apps.
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Next Gen Networking Infrastructure with Rust
Carl Lerche shows using Rust to provide a networking platform that provides expressiveness, speed, and safety, exemplifying with Linkerd, a “service mesh” proxy for cloud native applications.