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Lessons in Extreme .NET Performance
Ben Watson provides a deep-dive introduction to what you need to know to squeeze out the ultimate performance from your .NET code, along with war stories from building the Bing platform query engine.
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Data Structures in and on IPFS
Juan Batiz-Benet makes a short intro of IPFS (the InterPlanetary File System) and discusses the IPLD data model and example data structures (unixfs, keychain, post).
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A Brief History of Chain Replication
Christopher Meiklejohn talks through a history of chain replication, starting with the original work from 2004 by van Renesse and Schneider up to new and unique designs of chain replication.
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Tor in Haskell & Other Unikernel Tricks
Adam Wick discusses the unikernel implementation of Tor, what makes Tor an attractive target for a unikernel, and what aspects of unikernels are particularly interesting when considering Tor.
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Contracts in Clojure: Settling Types vs Tests
Jessica Kerr talks about Clojure and explores the potential of contracts as the best-yet compromise between types and tests.
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Resilience Planning & How the Empire Strikes Back
Bhakti Mehta approaches best practices for building resilient, stable and predictable services: preventing cascading failures, timeouts pattern, retry pattern, circuit breakers and other techniques.
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Architecting Distributed Databases for Failure
Fangjin Yang covers common problems and failures seen with distributed systems, and discusses design patterns that can be used to maintain data integrity and availability when everything goes wrong.
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Building Highly-resilient Systems at Pinterest
Yongsheng Wu talks about how to build highly-resilient systems at scale. Wu presents also failure cases that prompted engineers at Pinterest to build such systems, and how they test these systems.
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Containers at Netflx - An Evolving Story
Sangeeta Narayanan looks at the role of containers in simplifying and increasing the reliability of the process of releasing and operating the Netflix software.
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Inside Yelp's SOA Infrastructure
Kyle Anderson discusses details on how to tie Mesos, Docker, SmartStack, Haproxy, Git, and Sensu all together into a coherent system that developers can use to ship their code in a self-serve way.
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Discover Key Customer Insights
Marianne Berkovich shares how to improve user interviewing skills and discover key insights that could lead one to the next big innovative “thing” users need.
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Prototyping for Optimal Learning
Diana Joseph shows how to practice concept prototyping to avoid building the wrong thing. Prototyping is about working lean, using the smallest investment to generate the greatest amount of learning.
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