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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.
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Relevance of ClojureScript
Jearvon Dharrie discusses how ClojureScript stacks up against ES6. He demonstrates code examples in JavaScript and ClojureScript.
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The Many Faces of Apache Kafka: How is Kafka Used in Practice
Neha Narkhede discusses how companies are using Apache Kafka and where it fits in the Big Data ecosystem.
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Breaking Bad at Netflix: Building Failure as a Service
Kolton Andrus presents how Netflix, in order to harden their systems, designed “Failure as a Service” to allow anyone to test and validate how their systems handle failure.
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Design vs. Data: Enemies or Friends?
Big Design Upfront was considered so evil in the early days of Agile that it acquired its own acronym. It’s time we relearned that great products start with asking the right questions.
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Netflix’s Viewing Data Microservices: How we Know Where you are in House of Cards
Matt Zimmer discusses architectural patterns -service decomposition, stateless application tiers, and polyglot persistence- and migration strategies used by Netflix.
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Developing Functional Domain Models with Event Sourcing
Chris Richardson describes how to implement business logic using a domain model that is based on event sourcing. He compares and contrasts a hybrid OO/FP design with a purely functional approach.
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How 30 Years of Ticket Transaction Data Helps you Discover New Shows!
Vaclav Petricek discusses how to train models, architect and build a scalable system powered by Storm, Hadoop, Spark, Spring Boot and Vowpal Wabbit that meets SLAs measured in tens of milliseconds.
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Taking the Pain out of Real-time Mobile Back-end Development
Mandy Waite shows how to get started with Firebase before walking through a live demo of building a multi-user, collaborative mobile app that provides real-time updates to its users.
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Operating Microservices
Michael Brunton-Spall shows how DevOps-like patterns can be applied on microservices to give the development teams more responsibility for their choices, and much more.