InfoQ Homepage QCon San Francisco 2023 Content on InfoQ
-
Streaming Databases: Embracing the Convergence of Stream Processing and Databases
Yingjun Wu discusses the evolution of streaming databases, and the features and design principles that set streaming databases apart from conventional database systems and stream processing engines.
-
Use Engineering Strategy to Reduce Friction and Improve Developer Experience
Will Larson discusses what problems engineering strategy solves, examples of real engineering strategies, how to rollout engineering strategy, troubleshooting why your strategy rollout isn’t working.
-
Optimizing JVM for the Cloud: Strategies for Success
Tobi Ajila discusses the challenges and innovations in JVM performance for cloud deployments, highlighting the integration of these JVM features with container technologies.
-
Modern Compute Stack for Scaling Large AI/ML/LLM Workloads
Jules Damji discusses which infrastructure should be used for distributed fine-tuning and training, how to scale ML workloads, how to accommodate large models, and how CPUs and GPUs can be utilized.
-
Server Driven UI - Streamlining Mobile Development and Release
Thomas Chao discusses SDUI for mobile, what they are, why they are starting to become more prevalent, and the spectrum of possible options one can consider when looking into an SDUI framework.
-
Building Guardrails for Enterprise AI Applications W/ LLMs
Shreya Rajpal introduces Guardrails AI, an open-source platform designed to mitigate risks and enhance the safety and efficiency of LLMs.
-
Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla
Lily Mara and Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it.
-
Combating AI-Generated Fake Images with JavaScript Libraries
Kate Sills discusses JavaScript libraries to use for cryptographic hashes, digital signatures and timestamping, the traditional archival process, and how cryptographic hashes can prevent tampering.
-
Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal
Sergey Bykov discusses the concept of Durable Execution, with a real world example of how they used it to build the Control Plane for Temporal Cloud.
-
Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention
Neha Narkhede discusses a vision for fraud and risk management that leverages the advancements in generative AI.
-
Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale
Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering.
-
Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture
Chris Price discusses cellular architecture, its merits, design options with cellularization, and how to effectively isolate at the level of an AWS account.