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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.
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The Bad Idea Terminator
Melissa Perri presents how to destroy bad product ideas before they go to market while achieving the business goals and determining product strategy.
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Protocols - The Glue for Applications
Torben Hoffmann talks about how to design systems with asynchronous message passing between processes that do not share any memory.
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The SenseMaker® Method
Tony Quinlan introduces the SenseMaker® method from preparing the ground through gathering experiences and qualitative material to analysis and action planning.
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When Arduino Meets Application Server: Love at Second Sight
Holly Cummins explores the limits of embeddable hardware and presents a getting-started-guide to the Internet of Things.