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Alluxio: The Journey Thus Far and the Road ahead
Gene Pang introduces Alluxio, an open-source memory-speed virtual distributed storage system, integrations with other storage systems and some of the improvements they are working on.
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Hardware & Provisioning Engineering @Twitter
M. Singer and N. Johnson present the Provisioning Engineering system at Twitter, called Wilson, which together with Audubon is designed to handle every part of a server's lifecycle.
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Spotify Lessons: Learning to Let Go of Machines
James Wen tells the story of how Spotify’s infrastructure evolved and how this evolution changed the way that Spotify developers write code and the vast increase in iteration and shipping speed.
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Prototype to Production: Creating Connected Hardware with Nerves
Justin Schneck demonstrates building simple devices using Nerves, discussing strategies for producing clean and maintainable code for embedded systems.
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Drinking from the Elixir Fountain of Resilience
Jearvon Dharrie talks about the factors that contribute to Elixir's perfect match for fault tolerance and resiliency, besides the Open Telecom Platform (OTP).
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Operational Considerations for Containers
Chris Swan discusses how to deal with container operational considerations regarding image management, security, audit, logging, orchestration, and how that relates back to developer experience.
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Mobile Connectivity and IoT
Leslie Shannon overviews the different kinds of connectivity options available to IoT solution providers underlining which connectivity types are best for which purposes.
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Orchestrating Chaos: Applying Database Research in the Wild
Peter Alvaro describes LDFI’s (Lineage-driven Fault Injection) theoretical roots in database research, presenting early results from the field and opportunities for near and long-term future research.
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Scaling with Apache Spark
Holden Karau looks at Apache Spark from a performance/scaling point of view and what’s needed to handle large datasets.
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Serverless Design Patterns with AWS Lambda: Big Data with Little Effort
Tim Wagner discusses Big Data on serverless, showing working examples and how to set up a CI/CD pipeline, demonstrating AWS Lambda with the Serverless Application Model (SAM).
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Doorman - An Osquery Fleet Manager
Marcin Wielgoszewski talks about how his company uses Doorman and osquery to provide visibility into their infrastructure to enforce security.
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Practical mTLS: Security without the Headaches
Ying Li discusses in detail the implementation challenges of Swarm, how her team at Docker greatly reduced the overhead necessary to manage an infrastructure that makes use of TLS certificates.