InfoQ Homepage QCon Software Development Conference Content on InfoQ
-
Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership
Aaron Blohowiak talks about Netflix’s model of the five levels of Ownership: Demonstration, Oversight, Observation, Execution and Vision. He shares his mistakes and what they have learned so far.
-
Parsing JSON Really Quickly: Lessons Learned
Daniel Lemire talks about the lessons learned while writing the fast JSON parser, simdjson. One of the most important lessons is the importance of a nearly obsessive focus on performance.
-
Coding Without Complexity
Ellen Chisa talks about complexity in software and the need to remove it as much as possible. One possibility is to remove something that is not absolutely needed as a way to reduce complexity.
-
Evolution of Edge @Netflix
Vasily Vlasov reviews Netflix’s edge gateway ecosystem - multiple traffic gateways performing different functions deployed around the world.
-
User & Device Identity for Microservices @ Netflix Scale
Satyajit Thadeshwar provides useful insights on how Netflix implemented a secure, token-agnostic, identity solution that works with services operating at a massive scale.
-
Scaling Patterns for Netflix's Edge
Justin Ryan talks about Netflix’ scalability issues and some of the ways they addressed it.
-
Make Your Electron App Feel at Home Everywhere
Kilian Valkhof discusses the process of making an Electron app feel at home on all three platforms: Windows, MacOS and Linux, making devs aware of the pitfalls and how to avoid them.
-
When Machine Learning Can't Replace the Human
Pamela Gay explores how creative software solutions let scientists explore the solar system.
-
Microcultures and Finding Your Place
Mike McGarr explores the essence of organizational culture and the microcultures that can exist within an organization that provide layers of influence in our lives and job satisfaction.
-
The Talk You've Been Await-ing for
Steve Klabnik goes over the deep details of how async/await works in Rust, covering concepts like coroutines, generators, stack-less vs stack-ful, "pinning", and more.
-
Securing Software from the Supply Side
Nickolas Means talks about the tools that GitHub provides for Open Source maintainers to improve the safety and security of the software supply chain at the source.
-
Mind the Software Gap: How We Can Operationalize Privacy & Compliance
Jean Yang talks about some of the ways GDPR and CCPA can influence software, but also about practical solutions to protecting data privacy and security.