InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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The Decision Buy-In Algorithm
John Riviello covers key aspects for success, lessons from early mistakes, signs that the decision-making process used is working effectively, and how to leverage the AHP to make decisions.
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The Journey to a Million Ops / Sec / Node in Venice
Alex Dubrouski, andGaojie Liu discuss some of the tricks used in their pursuit to lower read latency and to reach 1M operations per second per node.
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Socially Responsible Companies - Do We All HAVE to Change the World?
Germán Bencci discusses if traditional for-profit businesses should worry about creating social impact, presenting a formula of how (almost) any product can create a positive social impact.
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Two Years of Incidents at Six Different Companies: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals
Vanessa Huerta Granda looks at real-life examples of companies she has worked with who chose to invest in improving their incident programs and have seen it pay dividends.
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Staff+ Engineering beyond Big Techs: How to Succeed in the Technical Path in Non-Tech Companies
Loiane Groner discusses how non-tech companies need to invest in more experienced technical professionals to have competitive advantage and how they can be attractive to Staff+ Engineers.
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Enabling Remote Query Execution through DuckDB Extensions
Stephanie Wang focuses on DuckDB’s extension model, and on query execution and planning, which is a use case of this DuckDB extension model.
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Lessons from Leading the Serverless First Journey at CapitalOne
George Mao discusses their journey into serverless, the best practices they picked up, the lessons learned along the way, and the optimizations for Lambda.
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Million Dollar Lines of Code: an Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization
Erik Peterson discusses the right timing and approach for engineering cost optimization and how to use cost efficiency metrics as powerful constraints that drive innovation, and engineer profit.
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Trust Deterministic Execution to Scale and Simplify Your Systems
Frank Yu discusses how to make a mission critical business logic deterministic and fast, providing both intuitive and not-so-obvious architecture choices.
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Resilience Hides in Plain Sight
John Allspaw describes what resilience is, and how it's incredibly hard to recognize it.
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Multi-Region Data Streaming with Redpanda
Michał Maślanka introduces the design of Redpanda’s Multi-Region feature, and describes how they leveraged Raft’s properties, a constraint solver, automatic data balancing, and tiered storage.
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Making the Decision to Be an Individual Contributor or a People Leader
Michael Winslow explains the factors he considered when choosing between being an individual contributor and a leader, including his personal strengths and interests, and organizational opportunities.