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Expanding Swift from Apps to Services
Cory Benfield explains why Swift is a powerhouse for services like Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. He shares how Swift's memory safety and C++/Java interop deliver high-performance, frugal systems.
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Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems
Sarah Usher explains why relying solely on a data warehouse fails at scale. She shares a 3-layer data lifecycle (Raw, Curated, Use Case) to help engineering leaders build flexible, decoupled systems.
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WASM Components are a FaaS' Best Friend
Laurent Doguin explains why WebAssembly (Wasm) components are the future of FaaS. He discusses the Wasm Component Model, security isolation, and building distributed systems with CNCF wasmCloud.
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Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned
Moumita Bhattacharya explains how Netflix unifies search and recommendations using the "UniCoRn" model and leverages Transformer-based foundation models to personalize the experience for 300M+ users.
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Kraken's Serverless Architecture for Keeping the Grid Green
Kevin Bowman shares how Kraken Technology balances the UK’s 30GW energy grid using renewable sources.
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How to Unlock Insights and Enable Discovery within Petabytes of Autonomous Driving Data
Kyra Mozley explains Perception 2.0, shifting from rigid CV pipelines to semantic embeddings. She shares how Wayve uses foundation models & vector search to solve the edge case "needle in a haystack."
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Holistic Engineering: Organic Problem Solving for Complex Evolving Systems
Vanessa Formicola explains Holistic Engineering, the practice of factoring non-technical forces like HR policies and org structure into technical designs to prevent architecture decay and delays.
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Achieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success
Matthew Card explains how inclusive leadership drives success. He shares a framework for building trust, psychological safety, and personal resilience to create high-performing engineering cultures.
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Fast Eventual Consistency: inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io
Somtochi Onyekwere discusses Corrosion, Fly.io's eventual consistent service discovery tool. She explains how the networking team leverages SQLite and CRDTs to replicate data across 800+ nodes.
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How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton explains how Man Group built ArcticDB, a serverless database connecting directly to S3. He discusses using CRDTs to manage global state and leveraging immutable trees for atomicity.
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From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix
Naveen Mareddy and Sujana Sooreddy explain how Netflix monitors massive media encoding workflows. They discuss scaling to 1M+ trace spans and using Flink to unlock real-time business insights.
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Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant
Karthik Ramgopal and Daniel Hewlett explain LinkedIn’s shift to agentic AI. They share how a modular supervisor-sub-agent architecture and a centralized skill registry power the new Hiring Assistant.
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