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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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Social Coding for Effective Teams and Products
Phil Haack discusses the secret ingredient to great teams and products, usually misnamed "soft" skills, and how they help teams be more effective, backing all of it with hard data.
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Speedup Your Java Apps with Hardware Counters
Sergey Kuksenko discusses how Performance Monitoring Unit works, what Hardware Counters are, which tools have friendship with Java and how to use HWC for speeding up our Java applications.
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Better Tests, Less Code: Property-Based Testing
Matt Bachmann presents a few patterns meant to inspire developers to get started with Property-based Testing.
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