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Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them
Holly Cummins explains how utilization and elasticity relate to sustainability. She also introduces a range of practical techniques, including absurdly-simple-automation, LightSwitchOps, and FinOps.
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How to Build a Successful Cloud Capability on a Heavy Regulated Organization
Ana Sirvent discusses their cloud capability journey, highlighting lessons learned and best practices on culture, processes and technology.
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Offline and Thriving: Building Resilient Applications with Local-First Techniques
Carl Sverre explores how popular apps like WhatsApp, Figma, and Linear elevate their user experience and facilitate seamless collaboration by harnessing the power of offline-first techniques.
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The Commoditization of the Software Stack: How Application-First Cloud Services are Changing the Game
Bilgin Ibryam discusses the intersection of cloud-native technologies such as Dapr with developer-focused cloud services.
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From Cloud-Hosted to Cloud-Native
Rosemary Wang discusses the patterns and practices that help one move from cloud-hosted to cloud-native architecture and maximize the benefit and use of the cloud.
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Cloud Provider Sustainability, Current Status and Future Directions
Adrian Cockcroft explains what is available now in terms of green energy, and public roadmap statements and commitments that have been made by AWS, Azure and GCP.
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Speed of Apache Pinot at the Cost of Cloud Object Storage with Tiered Storage
Neha Pawar discusses how to query data on the cloud directly with sub-seconds latencies, diving into data fetch and optimization strategies, challenges faced and learnings.
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Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale
Mei-Chin Tsai and Vinod Sridharan discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability.
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Tesla's Virtual Power Plant
The speakers explore the architecture of the Tesla Energy Platform including the use of asset hierarchies, functional programming techniques, trade-offs in edge vs. cloud computing.
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Beyond Default Settings: Evaluating the Security of Kubernetes and Cloud Native Environments
The panelists discuss default configurations, authentication, and access control mechanisms in the context of what Kubernetes brings to the table in terms of security.
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Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyperscale Cloud Database Service
Akshat Vig presents Amazon’s experience operating DynamoDB at scale and how the architecture continues to evolve to meet the ever-increasing demands of customer workloads.
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On beyond Serverless: CALM Lessons and a New Stack for Programming the Cloud
Joe Hellerstein shares lessons from research on how we can deliver stateful, communicating, autoscaling cloud software, describing ongoing work in the Hydro Project at Berkeley on programmable cloud.