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Flying Faster with Heron
Karthik Ramasamy presents the design and implementation of Heron, the new de facto stream data processing engine at Twitter. Ramasamy shares Twitter’s experience of running Heron in production.
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Rethinking Streaming Analytics for Scale
Helena Edelson addresses new architectures emerging for large scale streaming analytics based on Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra and Kafka (SMACK) or Apache Flink or GearPump.
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Connecting Stream Processors to Databases
Gian Merlino discusses stream processors and a common use case - keeping databases up to date-, the challenges they present, with examples from Kafka, Storm, Samza, Druid, and others.
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Broken Performance Tools
Brendan Gregg focuses on broken tools and metrics instead of the working ones. Metrics can be misleading, and counters can be counter-intuitive. He advises on how to approach new performance tools.
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Microservices Chaos Testing at Jet
Rachel Reese talks about Jet.com's chaos testing methods and code in depth, but also lays out a path to implementation that everyone can use.
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Spring Framework 5 - Preview & Roadmap
Juergen Hoeller talks about the key themes in Spring 5, support for Java 8, comprehensive support for JDK 9, a strong focus on HTTP/2, and first-class support for Spring-style reactive architectures.
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The Quest for Low-latency with Concurrent Java
Martin Thompson focuses on algorithms which provide very high throughput while keeping latency low and predictable, discussing the concurrency theory and implementing these algorithms in Java 8.
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Engineering You
Martin Thompson talks about the characteristics of a good software engineer and explores the individual practices and techniques that can help bring out the engineer in everybody.
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Real-Time Fraud Detection with Graphs
Jim Webber talks about several kinds of fraud common in financial services and how each decomposes into a straightforward graph use-case. He explores them using Neo4j and Cypher query language.
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Java vs. C Performance
Cliff Click takes a look at Java vs C performance. He discusses both languages' strong and weak points and the programming context surrounding language choices.
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Profilers Are Lying Hobbits (and we hate them!)
Nitsan Wakart discusses concrete cases in which profilers misguide, misrepresent and at times subvert the systems they aim to help us diagnose.
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How to I/O?
Todd Montgomery discusses the challenges of I/O, as software and hardware change rapidly and conventional wisdom must evolve to keep up, revisiting old ideas with new and different perspectives.
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