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Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: Optimizing Mind & Body
Phil Nash talks about one developer’s experience learning to live a healthier and happier life and some of the solutions he came up with to make meaningful changes in his life.
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Patterns in a Containerized World
Matthias Luebken gives an overview of typical patterns and best practices that he has seen in developing, deploying and operating applications that leverage containers.
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Techniques for a Successful Agile Transformation
Steve McDonald and Mark Landeryou talk about the dangers of taking shortcuts when the going gets tough and the level of discipline required to get the most out of adopting Agile.
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Scala, ECS, and Docker: Delayed Execution @Coursera
Brennan Saeta talks about aspects of Coursera’s architecture that enable them to rapidly build sophisticated features for their learning platform, the use of containers and security-related issues.
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Using Pony for Fintech
Sylvan Clebsch talks about using Pony for fintech to build high-performance tools. Pony is a new actor-model statically typed language, compiled AOT, with a GC and a data-race free type system.
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Microsoft Cloud's Front Door: Building a Global API
Charles Lamanna talks about the scale and architecture of Microsoft’s Azure Management Gateway and how Azure API’s are built for high availability and for data sovereignty.
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Cloud-based Microservices powering BBC iPlayer
Stephen Godwin describes how the BBC integrated its broadcast systems with AWS, how Video Factory is built around a microservices architecture that uses both REST and SQS.
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GoshawkDB: Making Time with Vector Clocks
Matthew Sackman discusses dependencies between transactions, how to capture these with Vector Clocks, how to treat Vector Clocks as a CRDT, and how GoshawkDB uses them for a distributed data store.
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The Dark Art of Container Monitoring
Luca Marturana covers the current state of the art for container monitoring and visibility, including real use cases with pros/cons of each and focuses on advanced container visibility techniques.
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Far from the Mobbing Crowd
Matt Wynne and Steve Tooke talk about challenges in dealing with a distributed team and remote collaboration, the tools and practices that helped them, and how they approached continuous improvement.
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How Will Persistent Memory Change Software Design?
Maciej Maciejewski discusses persistent memory, storage devices, and DRAM, accessing persistent memory with ACPI 6.0 extensions, existing support in the Linux kernel and the NVM library.
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Subside Failure: Partitioning Time and Space
Sadek Drobi talks about the prismic.io API and how to understand the properties and the mechanics of a system, and to partition its different dimensions to avoid a domino style failure cascade.