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Nonconformist Resilience: DB-backed Job Queues
John Mileham presents how they use, deploy Delayed::Job (a database-backed job queue) at Betterment for its transactional enqueue semantics, safe retry with exponential backoff, and its storage model.
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It Will Break
Leonid Movsesyan talks about the inevitability of a failure and the ways how engineers can design their systems to be able to tolerate them.
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Scalable Chatbot Architecture with eBay ShopBot
Robert Enyedi discusses the ebay ShopBot, a personal shopping assistant available as a Facebook Messenger bot.
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Architecture & Algorithms Powering Search @ZocDoc
Brian D'Alessandro and Pedro Rubio talk about the patient friendly search system they have built at Zocdoc using various products from the AWS stack and custom Machine Learning pipelines.
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Unifying Banks & Blockchains @Coinbase
Jim Posen talks about blockchain protocols used by Coinbase, detailing Coinbase’s Bitcoin, Ethereum, and US banking integrations and comparing how they implement the generalized service interface.
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Dynamically Re-configurable Event-driven Systems
Danny Goovaerts combines event-driven business modeling and collocation of data and processing to enable financial institutions to design, develop, test, deploy and change services fast.
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Pony: How I learned to stop worrying and embrace an unproven technology
Sean T. Allen talks about his experiences using Pony to build Wallaroo, a high-performance, low-latency stream processing engine.
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Refactor Front-end APIs & Accounting for Tech Debt
Julia Nguyen talks about accounting for technical debt in feature work and best practices in refactoring front-end APIs based on her work adding Apple Pay support to perk itemization at Indiegogo.
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Exploring UI Composition in Aurelia
Rob Eisenberg looks at Aurelia’s approach to UI composition through an exploration of its component model with configuration models based on JavaScript decorators and metadata.
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React+Redux at Scale
Daniel Cousineau looks at how React and Redux scale, not just in terms of quantitative performance, but in terms of architecture and team participation.
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Serverless Platform: Scientific Computation @Scale
Diptanu Choudhury talks about the platform they are developing at NASA for running computations as functions which would make it easier for researchers to program their applications & algorithms.
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What Does Speed Mean in Software Product Delivery?
Jason Yip explores the way of thinking about "high velocity" and gives specific examples of concepts and practices to try from his experiences at ThoughtWorks and Spotify.