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Defensible Moats: Unlocking Enterprise Value with Large Language Models at QCon San Francisco
In a recent presentation at QConSFrancisco, Nischal HP discussed the challenges enterprises face when building LLM-powered applications using APIs alone. These challenges include data fragmentation, the absence of a shared business vocabulary, privacy concerns regarding data, and diverse objectives among stakeholders.
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Lessons from Leading the Serverless First Journey at Capital One: George Mao at QCon San Francisco
During the third day of QCon San Francisco, George Mao, a senior distinguished engineer at Capital One, presented on his company's journey into serverless, the best practices they picked up, and the lessons learned along the way. The session was part of the “Architecting for the Cloud” track.
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Disaster Recovery Across a Million Pieces: Michelle Brush at QCon San Francisco
During the second day of QCon San Francisco 2023, Michelle Brush, an engineering director, SRE at Google, discussed challenges, patterns, and practices for disaster recovery actions in massively distributed systems in her session. The session is part of the "Designing for Resilience" track.
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Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale: Yao Yue at QCon San Francisco
During the second day of QCon San Francisco 2023, Yao Yue, the founder of IOP Systems, presented on performance engineering. In her session Yue discussed the evolving performance engineering in the modern era. For decades, hardware advancements have kept many performance engineers on the sidelines, but now, in a pivotal moment, their skills are more crucial than ever.
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Distributed Materialized Views: How Airbnb’s Riverbed Processes 2.4 Billion Daily Events
Airbnb created Riverbed, a Lambda-like data framework for producing and managing distributed materialized views. The framework supports over 50 read-heavy use cases where data is sourced from multiple data sources within the company’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform. It uses Apache Kafka and Apache Spark for online and offline components, respectively.
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Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention, by Neha Narkhede at QCon San Francisco
At the recent QCon San Francisco conference, Neha Narkhede gave a keynote on how generative AI can help improve the state of the art in fraud prevention. She discussed the "knowledge fabric", which is able to capture all information and knowledge on current fraud methods. She also introduced six foundational pillars of AI Risk Decisioning.
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QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 1: Architectures, Data Engineering, Infra Languages, Staff+ Skills
The 17th annual QCon San Francisco conference was held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This five-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of three days of presentations and two days of workshops. Day One, scheduled on October 2nd, 2023, included a keynote address by Suhail Patel and presentations from four conference tracks and two sponsored tracks.
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Managing 238 Million Memberships of Netflix: Surabhi Diwan at QCon San Francisco
During the first day of QCon San-Francisco 2023, Surabhi Diwan, a senior software engineer at Netflix, presented on managing 238 million Memberships of Netflix. The talk is a part of the “Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About" track. Diwan's work at Netflix involves the backend work regarding membership engineering, which is critical for both signups and streaming at Netflix.
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GitHub's Learnings from Building Copilot, an Enterprise LLM Application
GitHub has published an article containing the lessons they learned in building and scaling GitHub Copilot -- an enterprise application using an LLM (Large Language Model). In a post on GitHub's blog, AI product leader Shuyin Zhao describes how -- over three years -- they broke the project down into three stages - "find it", "nail it" and "scale it", and successfully launched GitHub Copilot.
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AWS Lambda under the Hood: Mike Danilov at QCon San Francisco
During the first day of QCon Dan-Francisco 2023, Mike Danilov, a senior principal engineer at AWS, presented on AWS Lambda and what is under the hood. The talk is a part of the “Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About.” Danilov's talk centered around invoke routing, compute infrastructure, and cold starts topics.
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Scale Higher Per-Database Storage Limits and Create More Databases with Cloudflare D1 Open Beta
Cloudflare recently announced the open beta of its D1 serverless relational database built on SQLite. The open beta of D1 continues on earlier company investments, with the most recent enhanced performance. With the open beta of D1, the company adds higher per-database storage limits and the ability to create more databases.
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Nomura Leverages HashiCorp Consul for Microservices Discovery on AWS EC2
With the help of AWS and HashiCorp consultants, Nomura created a solution for service discovery for complex microservices environments. The solution leverages HashiCorp Consul and is based on a hierarchical, rule-based algorithm. It supports discovery by service name, DNS latency, and custom tags.
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Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Spring Cloud, GlassFish, Helidon, Open Liberty, Apache Camel
This week's Java roundup for September 25th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.9, Build 21-jextract+1-2, Spring Cloud 2023.0.0-M2, Helidon 4.0.0-RC1, Open Liberty 23.0.0.10-beta, Apache Camel 4.0.1 and 3.21.1, JHipster Lite 0.43.0, JDKMon 17.0.77 and 17.0.75, JobRunr 6.3.2, Yupiik Fusion 1.0.8 and Gradle 8.4.0-RC3.
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Microsoft Announces a New Azure SQL Database Free Offer in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new Azure SQL Database free offering. This offering provides users a 32 GB General Purpose, serverless Azure SQL database with 100,000 vCore seconds of compute free monthly.
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Amazon EBS Volumes Support Storage Fencing Using NVMe Reservations
AWS recently introduced support for NVMe reservations, a set of industry-standard storage fencing protocols, on io2 and io2 Block Express EBS volumes. Controlling and coordinating access from multiple instances to a shared volume, reservations are used by shared storage applications to ensure data consistency.