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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.
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Products and Prototypes with Keras
Micha Gorelick shows how to build a working product with Keras, a high-level deep learning framework, discussing design decisions, and demonstrating how to train and deploy a model.
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Causal Consistency for Large Neo4j Clusters
Jim Webber explores the new Causal clustering architecture for Neo4j, how it allows users to read writes straightforwardly, explaining why this is difficult to achieve in distributed systems.
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Our Concurrent Past; Our Distributed Future
Joe Duffy talks about the concurrency's explosion onto the mainstream over the past 15 years and attempts to predict what lies ahead for distributed programming, from now til 15 years into the future.
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Deep Learning at Scale
Scott Le Grand describes his work at NVidia, Amazon and Teza, including the DSSTNE distributed deep learning framework.
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Building Robust Machine Learning Systems
Stephen Whitworth talks about his experience at Ravelin, and provides useful practices and tips to help ensure our machine learning systems are robust, well audited, avoid embarrassing predictions.
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Taming Complexity with Object-Oriented UX
Sophia Voychehovski discusses all the factors that cause complexity, the three key ways one can wrangle it and object-oriented UX.
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Further Together: Curated Pairing Culture @Pivotal
Neha Batra presents her experience with pair programming at Pivotal Labs. They pair program eight hours/day every workday and help enable other companies to practice it with them.
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Performance and Search
Dan Luu discusses how to estimate performance using back of the envelope calculations that can be done in minutes or hours, even for applications that take months or years to implement.
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Design Guidelines for Conversational Interfaces
Angie Terrell discusses the current state of conversational interfaces and human-centered design principles to guide the design of conversational apps.
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