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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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Practical Advice for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), by Sam Partee at QCon San Francisco
At the recent QCon San Francisco conference, Sam Partee, principal engineer at Redis, gave a talk about Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). He discussed Generative Search, which combines large language models (LLMs) with vector databases to improve information retrieval. Partee discussed several innovative tricks such as Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE), and semantic caching.
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Chronon - Airbnb’s End-to-End Feature Platform at QCon SF 2023
At QConSF, Airbnb staff software engineer Nikhil Simha presented Chronon, Airbnb's solution to address the challenges of managing and serving the vast number of features used in machine learning models. The platform focuses on four key areas: core APIs, training data generation, feature serving, and feature observability.
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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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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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Unpacking How Ads Ranking Works @ Pinterest: Aayush Mudgal at QCon San Francisco
At QCon San Francisco, Aayush Mudgal gave a talk on Pinterest's ad ranking strategy. Pinterest does both candidate retrieval and ranking, supported by user interaction data and what they are currently watching. They use neural networks to create embeddings for ads and users, where ads which are close to the user should be relevant. They train and deploy models on a daily basis.
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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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A Collaborative Approach to Web Applications Accessibility
Developers and designers can work together to share knowledge and experience when working on creating accessible applications. Accessibility issues can be treated as any other bug, something that needs to be solved first. Accessibility should be embraced as something very serious and important to society, and approached as a business opportunity.
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How to Create a UI That's Both Robust and User Friendly
The key challenge in building UIs is balancing ease of use and maintainability, with scale and complexity. It requires thoughtful component design and an understanding of common usage paths to create a UI that's both robust and user-friendly. Automation can be a game-changer when it comes to improving efficiency and consistency in your codebase.
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Handling Conflicts by Dealing with Emotions
Emotions are at the heart of conflicts, influencing their initiation, escalation and dynamics. Effectively managing your own emotions and understanding those of others can greatly impact the outcome of a conflict. Two steps to be taken are to label emotions, and take control and determine which emotion you want to focus on.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 Release Schedule, Project Babylon, Helidon 4.0-RC2, MicroProfile 6.1-RC1
This week's Java roundup for September 4th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.26, Quarkus 3.3.2, MicroProfile 6.1-RC1, MicroProfile Config 3.1-RC2, Helidon 4.0.0-M2, Open Liberty 23.0.0.9-beta, Hibernate Search 7.0.0.Beta1, Infinispan 14.0.17.Final, Eclipse Mojarra 4.0.4, JDKMon 17.0.71, JHipster 8.0.0-beta.3 and 7.9.4 and JavaZone 2023 Conference.
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Navigating Open Source Integration through a DevOps Lens
Taking a DevOps perspective on open source can help to incorporate an OSS project into your environment. DevOps engineers are comfortable with using third-party integrations, and they align with the open source mindset of breaking down barriers between different groups and promoting teamwork.