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What the Data Says: Emerging Technical Trends in Front-End and How They Affect You
Laurie Voss discusses the adoption of technical trends in web development, and uses data from over 16,000 responses to surveys of web developers to identify the key trends in front-end development.
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24/7 State Replication
Todd Montgomery discusses lessons learned in designing systems, especially those based on replicated state machines, that need to continue operating.when things go wrong.
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Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale
Mei-Chin Tsai and Vinod Sridharan discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability.
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Tesla's Virtual Power Plant
The speakers explore the architecture of the Tesla Energy Platform including the use of asset hierarchies, functional programming techniques, trade-offs in edge vs. cloud computing.
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Honeycomb: How We Used Serverless to Speed up Our Servers
Jessica Kerr reviews the benefits (user experience on demand!) and constraints (everything in AWS has a limit!) of serverless-as-accelerator, and gives practical advice.
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Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System
Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale.
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Ubiquitous Caching: a Journey of Building Efficient Distributed and In-Process Caches at Twitter
Juncheng Yang discusses three trends in hardware, workload, and cache usage that shape the design of modern caches.
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Stress Free Change Validation at Netflix
Javier Fernandez-Ivern discusses why a high confidence change process for code bases is needed, how zero-noise diffs help close the confidence gap, and recommended practices for building a diff system
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Leveraging Determinism
Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services.
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Dark Side of DevOps
Mykyta Protsenko discusses the trade-offs that companies face during the process of shifting left, how to ease cognitive load for the developers, and how to keep up with the evolving practices.
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API Evolution without Versioning
Brandon Byars patterns of evolution in addition to versioning, the tradeoffs that exist between API elegance, obviousness, and stability, broadening the conversation from API evolution to PM.
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Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyperscale Cloud Database Service
Akshat Vig presents Amazon’s experience operating DynamoDB at scale and how the architecture continues to evolve to meet the ever-increasing demands of customer workloads.