InfoQ Homepage QCon New York 2023 Content on InfoQ
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Ephemeral Execution is the Future of Computing, but What about the Data?
Jerop Kipruto and Christie Warwick use Tekton to explore challenges of data gravity in ephemeral execution, discussing clean container injection mechanisms and a secure server interface.
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Maximizing Performance and Efficiency in Financial Trading Systems through Vertical Scalability and Effective Testing
Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture.
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Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering
Charity Majors discusses how platform engineering teams are different from other engineering teams, and presents some of the ways they run into traps and other troubles.
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Improve Feature Freshness in Large Scale ML Data Processing
Zhongliang Liang covers the impact of feature freshness on model performance, discussing various strategies and techniques that can be used to improve feature freshness.
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The Rise of the Serverless Data Architectures
Gwen Shapira explores the implications of serverless workloads on the design of data stores, and the evolution of data architectures toward more flexible scalability.
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Comparing Apples and Volkswagens: the Problem with Aggregate Incident Metrics
Courtney Nash presents data from the Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) to demonstrate how aggregate incident metrics (MTTR) aren't representative of systems' resilience.
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From Open Source to SaaS: the Journey of ClickHouse
Sichen Zhao and Shane Andrade discuss architectural design decisions and some of the pitfalls one may run into along the way.
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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.
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Developing above the Cloud
Paul Biggar talks about Darklang, a language designed to run on the cloud. By combining many things below the programming language abstraction layer, it resulted in less complexity for the developer.
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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.
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Needle in a 930M Member Haystack: People Search AI @LinkedIn
Mathew Teoh explores how LinkedIn's People Search system uses ML to surface the right person that you're looking for.
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Growing Others to Grow Yourself
Audrey Troutt shares how the best way to grow in your career is to help others grow as well, but only if you learn to let go of what you are good at, and teach others to excel at those skills too.