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Akka Streams: Streaming Data Transformation à la Carte
Viktor Klang explores fast data streaming using Akka Streams - how to design robust transformation pipelines with built-in flow control able to take advantage of multicore and go over networks.
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Partial Failures in a Microservices Jungle: Survival Tips from Comcast
Jon Moore goes over some strategies for surviving in a jungle of partial failures. Each survival tip is explained through a concrete example, or "adventure story", from Comcast’s TV experience.
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Managing Complexity, Functionally
Ryan Trinkle explores functional techniques for managing complexity, examines what makes them successful in pure functional programming, and proposes ways that they can be applied in any context.
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From Hackathon to React Native @ Facebook
Christopher Chedeau walks through the challenges, both technical and people management related, involved in bringing the React JavaScript UI library to iOS.
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Making Distributed Data Persistent Services Elastic (Without Losing All Your Data)
Joe Stein introduces Mesos and managing data services on it, presenting use cases for replacing classic solutions (like cold storage) with new functionality based on these technology.
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Pulsar: Real-time Analytics at Scale
Sharad Murthy & Tony Ng present Pulsar, a real-time streaming system which can scale to millions of events per second with high availability and 4GL language support.
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Reactive Programming at Cloud-Scale and Beyond
Bart de Smet discusses how the reactive programming paradigm can be used for event stream processing and how it can be applied from small devices all the way to cloud-scale infrastructures.
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Crafting an Effective Security Organization
Rich Smith discusses the progressive approaches taken by the Etsy security team to provide security while not destroying the freedoms of the Etsy engineering culture that are loved so much.
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Reactive Stream Processing at Netflix
Justin Becker & Neeraj Joshi describe Mantis, discuss the challenges associated with designing for the cloud, processing billions of events, all while being cost sensitive.
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Fail Better: Radical Ideas from the Practice of Cloud Computing
Tom Limoncelli discusses creating resiliency at the most economic level, doing risky procedures often, and creating a blameless culture to encourage communication and improve system reliability.
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Real Threat and Real Defenses – Case Study of the Unknown
Alex Holden examines hackers’ techniques, skills, and shortfalls. He takes a snapshot of the current threat landscape and derives practical lessons by analyzing a number of high profile breaches.
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How we Build Rock-solid Apps and Keep 100M+ Users Happy at Shazam
Giannakakis and Dalkitsis present how Shazam releases faster, more predictably and with more features by using BDD and automation testing, without slowing down or hindering the development process.