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0 to 100 days - Running DRTs at Dropbox
Thomissa Comellas shares her experiences developing and rolling out new Disaster Recovery Testing techniques at Dropbox. Tammy Butow shares how her team runs DRTs and has implemented the techniques.
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What They Don't Tell You about Microservices...
Daniel Rolnick talks about the process Yodle went through adopting and deploying microservices, including database architectures and architectural patterns that emerged.
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Architecting Cross-Platform Mobile Frameworks
Spencer Chan overviews Quora's architecture that allows them to share the majority of their application code across their Android, iOS and web apps, discussing challenges and benefits.
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ESPN Next Generation APIs Powering Web, Mobile, TV
Manny Pelarinos talks about the tension of optimizing APIs for different experiences, while supporting hundreds of endpoints and many web and mobile applications at scale.
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The Verification of a Distributed System
Caitie McCaffrey discusses the strategies for proving a correct system and less strenuous methods of testing, which can help increase our confidence that a system is doing the right thing.
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Reactive Programming for Java Developers
Rossen Stoyanchev discusses what reactive programming is all about and tries to make sense of the transition from traditional application development to reactive programming.
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Patterns & Practices for Cloud-Based Microservices
Rachel Reese talks about the lessons she has learned at Jet.com on their way to developing the platform and how they’ve schooled themselves on what works and what doesn't for F# and microservices.
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Banking from the Future: Cryptocurrency Key Storage
Olaf Carlson-Wee examines various novel cryptosystems used to facilitate the secure storage of billions of dollars in global crypto banks.
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Reaching Production Faster with Containers in Testing
David Xia explains how Helios testing framework drives integration tests and spins up self-contained environments during test runs, increasing Spotify’s code quality and successful deployments.
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Membership, Dissemination and Population Protocols
Sean Cribbs discusses practical applications of academic research with a large scale distributed system, as well as membership and dissemination protocols and their application in practice.
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Applying Java 8 Idioms to Existing Code
Trisha Gee highlights the performance benefits of using Java 8, pros and cons, identifying code that makes sense to refactor with lambdas and streams, and what changes provide the most benefit.
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Chaos Kong - Endowing Netflix with Antifragility
Luke Kosewski describes Flow, how it adds value to a microservice architecture, what preconditions must be met for such a recovery mechanism to succeed, and tells the story of a 2015 Q4 outage.