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Beyond REST: Coursera's Journey to GraphQL
Bryan Kane talks about why Coursera is transitioning to GraphQL and shares challenges and learnings from building their GraphQL assembly layer.
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Rethinking CodeGen: IDL, Thrift, gRPC, Ohh My
Cameron Waeland discusses the evolution of Compass and presents their extensible code generation framework which is at the heart of their automatically generated REST to gRPC reverse proxy.
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Front-End APIs: Powering Fast-Paced Iterations
Aditya Modi and Karthik Ramgopal explore LinkedIn’s ideas behind API modeling, the challenges they’ve faced, and how they are evolving their modeling strategy over time based on their learnings.
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Generating Unified APIs with Protocol Buffers and gRPC
Chris Roche and Christopher Burnett discuss how they extended the Protocol Buffer (PB) IDL to create unified APIs and data models, and how they used Envoy to move HTTP 1.1 services to gRPC.
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Reasoning about Complex Distributed Systems
Erich Ess discusses technical tools needed to gain information on a complex system and practical approaches to convert that information into an actual understanding of the system.
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Production - Designing for Testability
Michael Bryzek explores what it’s like to build quality software with no development, QA, or staging environments, but which is tested in production.
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Spotify Lessons: Learning to Let Go of Machines
James Wen tells the story of how Spotify’s infrastructure evolved and how this evolution changed the way that Spotify developers write code and the vast increase in iteration and shipping speed.
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Zero to Production-Ready in Minutes
Tim Bozarth shares how Netflix is enabling engineers to go from "zero" to "production ready" in minutes - incorporating best-practices learned through years in the cloud.
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Chaos Engineering
Nora Jones talks about different experiences on "Chaos Adventures" including both successes and failures introducing Chaos in an organization.
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Drinking from the Elixir Fountain of Resilience
Jearvon Dharrie talks about the factors that contribute to Elixir's perfect match for fault tolerance and resiliency, besides the Open Telecom Platform (OTP).
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Nonconformist Resilience: DB-backed Job Queues
John Mileham presents how they use, deploy Delayed::Job (a database-backed job queue) at Betterment for its transactional enqueue semantics, safe retry with exponential backoff, and its storage model.
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It Will Break
Leonid Movsesyan talks about the inevitability of a failure and the ways how engineers can design their systems to be able to tolerate them.
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