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Policing the Stock Market with Machine Learning
Cliff Click talks about SCORE, a solution for doing Trade Surveillance using H2O, Machine Learning, and a whole lot of domain expertise and data munging.
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Enabling Awesome Engineering Teams
Alexandre Freire discusses what his team has learned through experiments, from the very fundamentals of what a team needs to be successful to Modern Agile engineering techniques.
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Stream Processing & Analytics with Flink @Uber
Danny Yuan discusses how Uber builds its next generation of stream processing system to support real-time analytics as well as complex event processing.
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Demistifying DynamoDB Streams
Akshat Vig and Khawaja Shams discuss DynamoDB Streams and what it takes to build an ordered, highly available, durable, performant, and scalable replicated log stream.
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How to Design and Develop in an Inclusive Way
Molly Watt and Chris Bush discuss designing for people with specific visual, auditory, cognitive and mobility needs, accessibility features and challenges for certain users engaging digital services.
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Freeing the Whale: How to Fail at Scale
Oliver Gould discusses Finagle, a library providing a uniform model for handling failure at the communications layer, enabling Twitter to fail, safely and often.
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Building a Data Science Capability from Scratch
Victor Hu covers the challenges, both technical and cultural, of building a data science team and capability in a large, global company.
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Data Cleansing and Understanding Best Practices
Casey Stella talks about discovering missing values, values with skewed distributions and likely errors within data, as well as a novel approach to finding data interconnectedness.
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Predictability in ML Applications
Claudia Perlich presents scenarios in which the combination of different and highly informative features can have significantly negative overall impact on the usefulness of predictive modeling.
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SQL Server on Linux: Will it Perform or Not?
Slava Oks talks about SQL Server’s history, high-level architecture and dives into core of I/O Manager, Memory Manager, and Scheduler. Topics include lessons learned and experiences behind the scenes.
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Security War Stories: The Battle for the Internet of Things
Alasdair Allan discusses the security problems when building Internet of Things devices, and the underlying differences between the IoT and the digital Internet that drive those security issues.
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Framing Our Potential for Failure
Michelle Brush discusses modeling complex systems and architectural changes that could introduce new modes of failure, using examples from embedded systems to large stream processing pipelines.