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The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes
Bilgin Ibryam takes us on a journey exploring Kubernetes primitives, design patterns and new workload types.
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Should We Really Run It if We Build It?
"Build it, run it" is the war-cry of the startup and scale up industry. Is it really that simple? Are there hidden costs like engineer burnout? And do B2B & B2C companies have different prerogatives?
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Machine Learning through Streaming at Lyft
Sherin Thomas talks about the challenges of building and scaling a fully managed, self-service platform for stream processing using Flink, best practices, and common pitfalls.
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Java in Containers - Part Deux
David Delabassee looks in parallel at how OpenJDK is evolving to cope with some of those changes and most importantly what it all means for Java developers.
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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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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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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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Panel: Microservices - Are They Still Worth It?
The panelists have moved from the monolith to microservices and in some cases back again and they have strong opinions on monorepos, on operating distributed systems.