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Latency Sensitive Microservices
Peter Lawrey looks at the differences between microservices and monolith architectures and their relative benefits and disadvantages.
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From Microliths to Microsystems
Jonas Boner explores microservices from first principles, distilling their essence and putting them in their true context: distributed systems based on reactive principles.
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Building Reliability in an Unreliable World
Greg Murphy describes how GameSparks has designed their platform to be tolerant of many things: unreliable and slow internet connectivity, cloud resources that can fail without warning, and more.
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Challenging Perceptions of NHS IT
Edward Hiley, Dan Rathbone talk about how NHS Digital has built a highly secure and resilient system for processing patient data, applying techniques more often used in the cloud to bare metal servers
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Building and Trusting a Cloud Bank
Greg Hawkins discusses how Starling Bank, part of the new movement in FinTech challenger banks, is innovating while addressing the need for resilience in a world where failure is everywhere.
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Assuring Crypto-code with Automated Reasoning
A.Tomb describes the capabilities of some open source tools that allow us to automatically determine whether a low-level cryptographic implementation matches a higher-level mathematical specification
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Shaving My Head Made Me a Better Programmer
Alex Qin tells the true story of her physical transformation, and the surprising and drastic ways in which it affected how she was perceived and treated as a programmer.
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Building a Bank with Go
Matt Heath discusses why Go is suited for microservices, what makes it attractive to high volume, low latency, distributed apps, and how easy it is to adopt into existing systems and organisations.
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Testing Programmable Infrastructure with Ruby
Matt Long talks about some approaches to environment infrastructure testing that his team at OpenCredo has created using Ruby.
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Straggler Free Data Processing in Cloud Dataflow
Eugene Kirpichov describes the theory and practice behind Cloud Dataflow's approach to straggler elimination, and the associated non-obvious challenges, benefits, and implications of the technique.
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Extreme Programming Meets Real-time Data
Tom Johnson and Gel Goldsby talk about scaling problems they encountered at Unruly, and where extreme programming values led them.
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Goodbye PrintGCDetails... and Other JDK 9 Changes!
Tony Printezis talks about the major changes and improvements coming in JDK 9 that will affect (but also help) anyone who's interested in Java performance monitoring, profiling, and tuning.