InfoQ Homepage QCon Plus November 2022 Content on InfoQ
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Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System
Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale.
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Ubiquitous Caching: a Journey of Building Efficient Distributed and In-Process Caches at Twitter
Juncheng Yang discusses three trends in hardware, workload, and cache usage that shape the design of modern caches.
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Stress Free Change Validation at Netflix
Javier Fernandez-Ivern discusses why a high confidence change process for code bases is needed, how zero-noise diffs help close the confidence gap, and recommended practices for building a diff system
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Leveraging Determinism
Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services.
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Dark Side of DevOps
Mykyta Protsenko discusses the trade-offs that companies face during the process of shifting left, how to ease cognitive load for the developers, and how to keep up with the evolving practices.
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API Evolution without Versioning
Brandon Byars patterns of evolution in addition to versioning, the tradeoffs that exist between API elegance, obviousness, and stability, broadening the conversation from API evolution to PM.
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Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyperscale Cloud Database Service
Akshat Vig presents Amazon’s experience operating DynamoDB at scale and how the architecture continues to evolve to meet the ever-increasing demands of customer workloads.
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From Zero to a Hundred Billion: Building Scalable Real-Time Event Processing at DoorDash
Allen Wang discusses the design of the event system including major components of event producing, event processing with Flink and streaming SQL, event format and schema validation.
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Harnessing Technology for Good — Transformation and Social Impact
Lisa Gelobter explores how to use technology to make the change affecting societal and systemic level changes.
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Adopting Continuous Deployment at Lyft
Tom Wanielista shares the details on Lyft’s journey to continuous delivery, the benefits and challenges.
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The Zen of Green Software: Finding Balance in the Sustainable Growth Journey
Lisa McNally and Marco Valtas discuss open source software tools and methodologies for balancing carbon with growth across an IT organization.