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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.
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Automating Chaos Experiments in Production
Ali Basiri discusses the motivation behind ChAP (Chaos Automation Platform), how they implemented it, and how Netflix service teams are using it to identify systemic weaknesses.
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Designing Calm Technology
Amber Case discusses using Calm Technology to design the next generation of connected devices, covering notification styles, compressing information into other senses, and cognitive overhead.
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Looking inside a Race Detector
Kavya Joshi discusses the internals of the Go race detector and delves into the compiler instrumentation of the program, and the runtime module that detects data races.
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Practical Data Synchronization Using CRDTs
Dmitry Ivanov discusses the basic CRDTs implementations in Scala, explaining the advantages of these data structures to solve many synchronization problems as well as their limitations.
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Next-gen Start-up Cultures: Innovating as You Grow
Jim Plush discusses specific culture initiatives, team structures and management ideals that have worked for his team at CrowdStrike, their virtual team structure, the culture team and more.
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Applying Failure Testing Research @Netflix
Kolton Andrus and Peter Alvaro present how a “big idea” -- lineage-driven fault injection -- evolved from a theoretical model into an automated failure testing service at Netflix.
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ScyllaDB: Achieving No-Compromise Performance
Avi Kivity discusses ScyllaDB, the many necessary design decisions, from the programming language and programming model through low-level details and up to the advanced cache design, and more.
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Building a Debugging Mindset
Devon H O'Dell discusses how perceptions about one's own abilities influence goals and behaviors, and how to improve abilities and help others do the same starting with a simple shift in thinking.
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Build to Learn: Rapid Prototyping Methods
Sara Bayless da Costa discusses several prototyping methods helping to learn about product, gather quality feedback, and get the best version of a product out there as quickly as possible.
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