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The Why of Go
Carmen Andoh provides the historical context around the technical decisions of the Go language to better understand its concurrency primitives, garbage collection, and small standard library.
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Monitoring Modern Architectures with Data Science
Dave Casper talks about how modern data science and algorithms are being applied to "fight machines with machines".
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Avoiding Alerts Overload from Microservices
Sarah Wells shares the experiences of reaching over 150 microservices in production after starting to build a microservices-based system from scratch only two years go. She offers tips and tricks.
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Bias in BigData/AI and ML
Leslie Miley discusses how inherent bias in data sets has affected things from the 2016 Presidential race to criminal sentencing in the United States.
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The Evolution of Reddit.com's Architecture
Neil Williams discusses the history of the systems that power reddit.com, looking at things that worked, things that didn't, and where they're going next.
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Performance Mythbusting Panel
The panelists answer audience questions on real-world applied performance proofs across stacks including Java, .NET and Python.
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Grokking Leadership via Mentoring
Ivana Mcconnell talks about what good mentorship is and why it's important.
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Control Flow Integrity Using Hardware Counters
J. Butler and C. Pierce present a system for early detection and prevention of unknown exploits. Their system uses Performance Monitoring Unit hardware to enforce coarse-grained Control Flow Integrity
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Architecting a Modern Financial Institution
Edward Wible and Rafael Ferreira discuss the key elements that make Nubank tick for millions of customers every day, and some key security decisions they made along the way.
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Scale @Reddit Triple Team Size w/o Losing Control
Nick Caldwell discusses his engineering team's approach to Agile development as they scaled from 40 to 120 engineers.
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From Threat Hunting to Crowd Defense
Richard Zhao talks about TI and AI in real practices, and crowd defense - a way to integrate defense measures against both targeted and untargeted attacks.
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The Anatomy of a Distributed System
Tyler McMullen talks through the components and design of a real system, built to perform very high volumes of health checks, done across a cluster of machines for reliability and scalability.