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Lessons from Etsy: The Secrets to a Successful Remote Culture
Brad Greenlee talks about how Etsy have fostered their remote culture,the effort it took, and the work they still have to do. He shares their successes and failures and what they have learned.
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New in ECMAScript 2016, JavaScript's First Yearly Release
Brian Terlson presents the changes TC39 is making to its specification publishing process for ES2016 and beyond.
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Product Ownership Is a Team Sport
Shane Hastie discusses the need for business analysis and requirements management, and showing how product ownership requires a team with a variety of skills and backgrounds to be effective.
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Service Architectures at Scale: Lessons from Google and eBay
Randy Shoup discusses modern service architectures at scale, using specific examples from both Google and eBay. He covers some interesting lessons learned in building and operating these sites.
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Scaling Uber's Real-time Market Platform
Matt Ranney explains the Uber architecture overall, with a focus on the dispatch systems, the geospatial index, handling failure, and dealing with the distributed traveling salesman problem.
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Size Matters! Product Management from LittleCo to BigDeal
Lisa Long talks about working with teams ranging from two people in an art gallery to three thousand spread across twelve time zones.
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Financial Modeling with Apache Spark: Calculating Value at Risk
Sandy Ryza aims to give a feel for what it is like to approach financial modeling with modern big data tools, using the Monte Carlo method for a a basic VaR calculation with Spark.
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Microservices and the Art of Taming the Dependency Hell Monster
Michael Bryzek presents lessons learned building an expansive microservice architecture at Gilt - an organization with 1500 git repositories and over 400 individual applications.
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How Did We End up Here?
Trisha Gee and Todd Montgomery attack the technology industry’s sacred cows by exposing the motivations that hide behind them.
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Responding Rapidly When You Have 100GB+ Data Sets in Java
Peter Lawrey discusses data-driven reactive systems, profiling latency distribution in such an environment, finding rare bugs, implementing resilience and monitoring.
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LDAP at Lightning Speed
Howard Chu covers highlights of the LMDB design and discusses some of the internal improvements in slapd due to LMDB, as well as the impact of LMDB on other projects.
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Product thru the Looking Glass
Chris Matts discusses how to manage product mastery, how do we decide whether to use analysis or product management techniques, and what does an end-to-end process looks like.