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Testing in Production - Quality Software Faster
Michael Bryzek discusses building software with no dev, QA or staging environments, diving into “verifying in production” - what it takes to build software tested continuously in production.
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Performance beyond Throughput: An OpenJ9 Case Study
Marius Pirvu talks about the new advancements in the area of JVM performance using the latest open source JVM technology at Eclipse OpenJ9 running with OpenJDK.
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Polyglot Persistence Powering Microservices
Roopa Tangirala takes a look at Netflix’s common platform used to manage, maintain, and scale persistence infrastructures, sharing the benefits, pitfalls, and lessons learned along the way.
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Getting Data Science to Production
Sarah Aerni covers the nuts and bolts of the Einstein Platform, a system that enables the automation and scaling of Artificial Intelligence to 1000s of customers, each with multiple models.
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Service-Oriented Development
Rafael Schloming talks about how the real goal of microservices is to break up a monolithic development workflow. He shows how to build software enabling to move fast and make things.
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ML for Question and Answer Understanding @Quora
Nikhil Dandekar discusses how Quora extracts intelligence from questions using machine learning, including question-topic labeling, removing duplicate questions, ranking questions & answers, and more.
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Making a Bigger Impact: Important Skills to Master
Ariya Hidayat discusses the significance of tracking scopes and deliverables of a project, how to invoke changes to an organization, and how to improve the narrative of communication.
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IOT and Edge Compute at Chick-fil-A
Brian Chambers talks about how Chick-fil-A architected the IoT platform and created a digital ecosystem that enables their business to deploy IoT solutions to restaurants.
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Design for Continuous Evolution
Eric Brewer explores continuous evolution -adding features easily to a running service- a key to high velocity in development, focusing on immutability to decouple specification from instantiation.
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Go Programming Language
Dave Cheney discusses the Go language: writing and interpreting benchmarks, using performance tools built into the Go runtime, GC and writing GC-friendly code.
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Scaling Slack
Bing Wei examines the limitations that Slack's back-end ran into and how they overcame them to scale from supporting small teams to serving large organizations of hundreds and thousands of users.
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Towards Memory Safety in Intel SGX Enclave
Yu Ding discusses Rust SGX SDK which combines Intel SGX together with Rust. Developers could write memory-safe SGX enclave easily, eliminating the possibility of being pwned intrinsically.