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The Modern Operating System in 2018
Justin Cormack looks at unikernels, LinuxKit, hypervisors, containers, library operating systems,and other recent developments to see status on the route towards agility for the operating system
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How Performance Optimizations Shatter Security Boundaries
Moritz Lipp explains how the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities exploit hardware optimizations to read otherwise inaccessible data processed on the computer.
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Logistics as a Service: Building the Ocado Smart Platform
Paul Sweetman and Alex Harvey discuss how Ocado Technology has built The Ocado Smart Platform, a scalable, AWS-based microservices architecture, combined with GCP analytics and a robotics grid.
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Real-Time Decisions Using ML on the Google Cloud Platform
Przemyslaw Pastuszka and Carlos Garcia present how Big Data is handled in Google Cloud Platform to build an end-to-end machine learning pipeline.
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Enterprise Node.JS Apps in 2018
Jamund Ferguson discusses tackling challenges with large-scale Node.js deployments, using async/await to handle errors, and strategies to embrace latest JavaScript technologies.
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Cloud-Native and Scalable Kafka Architecture
Allen Wang talks about how Netflix addresses the issues of stability and scalability in a cloud environment by having many smaller and mostly immutable Kafka clusters with limited state changes.
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Scaling Uber's Elasticsearch Clusters
Danny Yuan talks about how Uber scaled its Elasticsearch clusters as well as its ingestion pipelines for ingestions, queries, data storage, and operations by a three-person team.
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Best Practices Building Resilient Systems
Pablo Jensen focuses on best practices and lessons learned in building resilient systems.
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Abstractions to Help Developers Write Good Crypto
Isaac Potoczny-Jones discusses the impact of programming abstractions on the correctness of cryptographic code, and shows why some cryptographic libraries succeed while others fail.
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The Present and Future of Serverless Observability
Yan Cui overviews the challenges observing a serverless architecture, the tradeoffs to consider, the current state of the tooling for serverless observability, taking a look at new and coming tools.
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Testing Observability
Amy Phillips discusses the impact of observability on testing, from new techniques, greater Dev and Ops involvement, right through to whether testing is needed anymore.
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Diversity & Inclusion in Tech: A Panel Discussion
The panelists explore how and why diversity is important, key challenges they encountered, success stories and ideas for how each can help foster a more inclusive technical organization.