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In-Memory Caching: Curb Tail Latency with Pelikan
Yao Yue introduces Pelikan - a framework to implement distributed caches such as Memcached and Redis. She discusses the system aspects that are important to the performance of such services.
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Async or Bust!?
Todd Montgomery discusses several questions related to the asynchronous vs synchronous designs debate.
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High Performance Managed Languages
Martin Thompson explores how their managed runtimes can equal, and even better in some cases, the performance of native languages.
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Continuous Performance Testing
Mark Price talks about techniques for making performance testing a first-class citizen in a Continuous Delivery pipeline.
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Performance Testing in Java
Ix-chel Ruiz and Andres Almiray talk about the tools, like JMeter and JMH, and some techniques that should make engaging in performance testing a rewarding experience.
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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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