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Architecture & Design

Reliable Architectures through Observability

Kent Quirk shows an overview of observability tools and techniques, and specific recommendations for how to fit observability into their system designs and day-to-day development process.

Kent Quirk
on Jan 11, 2024

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48:59
Architecture & Design

Banking on Thousands of Microservices

Suhail Patel covers lessons learned creating a banking platform on the cloud that serves over 7 million customers daily and relies on a lean engineering team, microservices, Cassandra, and Kubernetes.

Suhail Patel
on Jan 03, 2024

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34:39
Architecture & Design

How to Build a Reliable Kafka Data Processing Pipeline, Focusing on Contention, Uptime and Latency

Lily Mara shares how OneSignal improved the performance and maintainability of its highest-throughput HTTP endpoints (backed by a Kafka consumer in Rust) by making it an asynchronous system.

Lily Mara
on Jan 02, 2024

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49:33
Culture & Methods

The Shape of Thoughts: How to Create Visual Templates to Bring Clarity, Context and Change to You and Your Teams!

Gemma Honour discusses how simple shapes can shape thinking, and break down difficult problems into something that is manageable and approachable.

Gemma Honour
on Dec 15, 2023

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39:18
Architecture & Design

Using Traffic Modeling to Load-Balance Netflix Traffic at Global Scale

Niosha Behnam and Sergey Fedorov discuss how Netflix shifted from geo-based DNS load-balancing to a latency-based approach, relying on real-user measurements and building a model of Netflix traffic.

Niosha Behnam Sergey Fedorov
on Dec 14, 2023

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47:13
Architecture & Design

The Joy of Building Large Scale Systems

Suhail Patel discusses the art and practice of building systems from core principles with a focus on how this can be done in practice within teams and organisations.

Suhail Patel
on Dec 07, 2023

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53:47
DevOps

From Monitoring to Observability: eBPF Chaos

Michael Friedrich discusses the learning steps with eBPF and traditional metrics monitoring and future Observability data collection, storage and visualization.

Michael Friedrich
on Nov 24, 2023

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49:16
Architecture & Design

Living on the Edge: Running Code and Serving Data with Edge Services

Erica Pisani discusses what the edge is, how running code and serving data on the edge can improve the performance of services, and how to leverage these tools to maximize performance.

Erica Pisani
on Nov 21, 2023

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32:07
Architecture & Design

Tales of Kafka @Cloudflare: Lessons Learnt on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages

Andrea Medda and Matt Boyle discuss Kafka on the way to one trillion messages, and the internal tools used to ease adoption as well as improve resiliency.

Andrea Medda Matt Boyle
on Nov 08, 2023

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32:21
DevOps

Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry

Daniel Gomez Blanco shares his experience leading a large-scale observability initiative at Skyscanner, based on the adoption of OpenTelemetry across hundreds of services.

Daniel Gomez Blanco
on Sep 06, 2023

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45:25
DevOps

Sprinkling eBPF onto Your Observability

Frederic Branczyk discusses the eBPF's capabilities. Beyond that, Branczyk will demonstrate the real-world use of eBPF in next-generation Observability tooling.

Frederic Branczyk
on Aug 29, 2023

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51:48
Development

Adventures in Performance: Efficiency Analysis of Large-scale Compute

Thomas Dullien discusses how language design choices impact performance, how Google's monorepo culture and Amazon's two-pizza-team culture impact code efficiency, why statistical variance is an enemy.

Thomas Dullien
on Aug 11, 2023

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46:15