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Cloudstate—towards Stateful Serverless
Sean Walsh discusses the challenges requirements, and introduces us to Cloudstate - an open source project building the next generation Stateful Serverless.
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Probabilistic Programming for Software Engineers
Michael Tingley provides a preview of how Facebook is advancing probabilistic programming, as well as some of the big problems they used it to solve.
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Anti-Entropy Using CRDTs on HA Datastores @Netflix
Sailesh Mukil briefly introduces Dynomite, offers a deep dive on how anti-entropy is implemented and talks about the underlying principles of CRDTs that make this possible.
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Internet of Tomatoes: Building a Scalable Cloud Architecture
Flavia Paganelli tells the story of 30MHz’s platform and how they ended up helping growers in 30 countries, deploying 3.5K sensors and process data at 4K events per second.
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How Many Is Too Much? Exploring Costs of Coordination During Outages
Laura Maguire shows how resilient performance is directly tied to coordination, and examines problematic elements of an Incident Command System, using case study examples.
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From Batch to Streaming to Both
Herman Schaaf talks about Skyscanner’s journey to implement their data platform to stream and store millions of events per second.
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Controlled Chaos: Taming Organic, Federated Growth of Microservices
Tobias Kunze focuses on the challenges that result from organic, federated growth and the patterns that can be applied to monitor and control these dynamic systems.
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How to Use Encryption for Defense in Depth in Native and Browser Apps
Isaac Potoczny-Jones discusses the pros and cons of application-level and end-to-end encryption.
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Kafka: A Modern Distributed System
Tim Berglund covers Kafka's distributed system fundamentals: the role of the Controller, the mechanics of leader election, and the role of Zookeeper today and in the future.
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Monolith Decomposition Patterns
Sam Newman shares some key principles and a number of patterns to use to incrementally decompose an existing system into microservices.
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A Brief History of the Future of the API
Mark Rendle talks about the various technologies and standards from across the years, the pros and cons of each, and which solutions are appropriate for which problems.
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Metaphors We Create By
Jabari Bell discusses metaphor and its influence on social consciousness.