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Making Distributed Data Persistent Services Elastic (Without Losing All Your Data)

Joe Stein introduces Mesos and managing data services on it, presenting use cases for replacing classic solutions (like cold storage) with new functionality based on these technology.

Joe Stein
on Sep 20, 2015

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59:25
Design vs. Data: Enemies or Friends?

Big Design Upfront was considered so evil in the early days of Agile that it acquired its own acronym. It’s time we relearned that great products start with asking the right questions.

Mary Poppendieck
on Aug 22, 2015

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Responding Rapidly When You Have 100GB+ Data Sets in Java

Peter Lawrey discusses data-driven reactive systems, profiling latency distribution in such an environment, finding rare bugs, implementing resilience and monitoring.

Peter Lawrey
on Jul 05, 2015

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39:31
Evolving a Data System

Simon Metson approaches the problem of evolving a data system; some patterns and anti-patterns both technical (polyglot systems, lambda architectures) and organisational (data silos, lava layers).

Simon Metson
on Apr 28, 2015

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Don’t Let Data Gravity Crush Your Infrastructure

Dave McCrory talks about what is Data Gravity, how it affects performance and portability and why these effects are amplified when there are larger volumes of data.

Dave McCrory
on Apr 19, 2015

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48:23
Consistency without Consensus: CRDTs in Production at SoundCloud

Peter Bourgon provides a practical introduction to Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) and describes a production CRDT system built at SoundCloud to serve several product features.

Peter Bourgon
on Feb 22, 2015

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46:52
Following Google: Don’t Follow the Followers, Follow the Leaders

Mark Madsen explains the history of databases and data processing over the past decades and looks where the industry will go.

Mark Madsen
on Feb 21, 2015

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59:37
Structure, Personalization, Scale: A Deep Dive into LinkedIn Search

The authors discuss some of the unique challenges they've faced delivering highly personalized search over semi-structured data at massive scale.

Asif Makhani Daniel Tunkelang
on Nov 01, 2014

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44:52
Leveraging Big Data for Payment Risk Management

John Canfield discusses the changing payment ecosystem, innovations in mining and organizing unstructured data from many sources, and approaches to deciding for loss minimization and user experience.

John Canfield
on Sep 28, 2014

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48:04
Graph Search: The Power of Connected Data

Ian Robinson takes a look at how size, structure and connectedness have converged to change the way we work with data, showing some new opportunities with connected data illustrated with graph search.

Ian Robinson
on Sep 20, 2014

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How Shutl Delivers Even Faster Using Neo4J

Volker Pacher, Sam Phillips present key differences between relational databases and graph databases, and how they use the later to model a complex domain and to gain insights into their data.

Volker Pacher Sam Phillips
on Sep 19, 2014

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Employing Data Science to Enhance the Facebook Experience

Justin Moore shares how Facebook's own advances in Data Science have solved intricate location technology problems and how these lessons can be applied to other verticals to achieve similar gains.

Justin Moore
on Sep 14, 2014

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