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Coding for High Frequency Trading
Richard Croucher talks about the application environments, design patterns and programming languages commonly deployed across Financial Services including Investment Banks and Hedge Funds.
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Dev to Prod in Five Minutes: Is Your Company Ready?
Carlos Leon gives first-hand practical advice for adopting containers and the changes required, and talks about the technical and cultural changes needed to move at the pace containers can offer.
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When Containers Attack!
Anne Currie dives deep into history: what the past can tell us about full stack engineers, popular tech platforms and the dangers of searching for the perfect technology.
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cgroupv2: Linux's New Unified Control Group System
Chris Down goes over design decisions and deviations for cgroupv2 compared to v1, pitfalls and caveats one may encounter when migrating to cgroupv2, and how Facebook is using cgroupv2.
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Continuous Delivery the Hard Way with Kubernetes
Luke Marsden assembles a CI/CD pipeline from scratch to Kubernetes using GitLab CE as an example. The talk is mostly demos.
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Deliver Docker Containers Continuously on AWS
Philipp Garbe discusses ECS and all other services needed to run containers in production, automatically deploying and scaling an ECS cluster and containerized applications.
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Achieving High Load in Advertising Technology
Peter Milne talks about the technologies used and how they are implemented to deal with the high load demanded by digital marketing. He tells some of the war stories and how problems were solved.
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Scaling Instagram Infrastructure
Lisa Guo overviews Instagram's infrastructure, its history, multi-data center support, tuning uwsgi parameters for scaling, performance monitoring and diagnosis, and Django/Python upgrade.
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Low Latency Trading Architecture at LMAX Exchange
Sam Adams overviews the architecture LMAX Exchange uses to deliver over $2 trillion a year through their platform, and shares their experience building a high-availability stateful system.
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Architectural Overhaul: Ad Serving @Spotify Scale
Kinshuk Mishra talks about his experiences and lessons learnt while evolving Spotify's Ad systems without disrupting daily activity.
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Delivering Value While behind Enemy Lines
Matt Barrett talks about how his team at Adaptive Financial Consulting manages to get things done in the face of huge cultural resistance while maintaining their own engineering culture.
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The Holistic Detective Hunt for Great Tech Culture
Doug Talbot talks about the key elements of the organizational complexity puzzle, why it’s so important, what patterns to choose from, what changes they have driven in Ocado Technology, etc.