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The Evolution of Testing Methodology at AWS: From Status Quo to Formal Methods with TLA+
Tim Rath explains how and why Amazon incorporated more powerful testing methodologies, ultimately leading them to the use of formal methods where TLA+ has become a cornerstone to our overall strategy.
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Comparing Elasticity of Reactive Frameworks
Elasticity is a key component in reactive systems and James Ward navigates the different characteristics of different implementations of this concept: Akka, Scala, RxJava, and more.
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The Quest for the One True Parser
Terence Parr shows the key practical advances in parsing from the last 25 years, provides algorithm comparisons, and separates the promises from reality.
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Building Reactive Services using Functional Programming
Rachel Reese sees reactive services and functional languages as a natural pair, demonstrating how functional concepts such as mailboxes and async workflows can help one craft reactive services.
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The Evolution of Engineering Culture: Oh, the Places We've Been
Melissa Pierce discusses the history and present of CS culture, gender relations, and tensions between hardware and software engineering.
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Let It Crash! The Erlang Approach to Building Reliable Services
Brian Troutwine examines how functional programming and other concepts championed by Erlang can yield reactive services with just a change in thinking and a different approach to design.
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Reactive Programming with Rx
Ben Christensen summarizes why the Rx programming model was chosen and demonstrates how it is applied to a variety of use cases.
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Groupon Engineering: Building Culture through the Experimentation MindSet
Sri Viswanath shares the ideas and program driving Groupon’s engineering culture.
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Concurrency at Large-Scale: The Evolution to Reactive Microservices
Randy Shoup, Consulting CTO, shares the history of reactive services and visits key milestones in their evolution: async techniques at Google, real-time search at Ebay, & responsive games at Kixeye.
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Explore Your Data: The Fundamentals of Network Analysis
Amy Heineike covers how to construct clean (and avoid hairball) networks, effective ways to analyze them, as well as open source options for visualizing and interacting with your graphs.
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Evolution of the PayPal API Platform: Enabling the Future of Money
Deepak Nadig discusses how PayPal’s API Platform evolved both internally and externally, the principles and patterns used, and how it is enabling the future of Money.
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Metrics-Driven Prioritization
Sam McAfee outlines an approach they are using at Neo to help their clients integrate business metrics and probabilistic modeling into their prioritization process.