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Too Big to Fail: Running A/B Experiments When You're Betting the Bank

Andrea Burbank discusses the risks, benefits, and lessons from running a single huge experiment with hundreds of moving parts, and with long-term engagement as the metric of success.

Andrea Burbank
on Mar 01, 2015

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Consistency without Consensus: CRDTs in Production at SoundCloud

Peter Bourgon provides a practical introduction to Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) and describes a production CRDT system built at SoundCloud to serve several product features.

Peter Bourgon
on Feb 22, 2015

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Following Google: Don’t Follow the Followers, Follow the Leaders

Mark Madsen explains the history of databases and data processing over the past decades and looks where the industry will go.

Mark Madsen
on Feb 21, 2015

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Unikernels: Who, What, Where, When, Why

Adam Wick explains the promise of unikernels (single-purpose, lightweight virtual machines) and shares experiences about when unikernels are appropriate solutions and when they are not.

Adam Wick
on Feb 21, 2015

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The Evolution of Testing Methodology at AWS: From Status Quo to Formal Methods with TLA+

Tim Rath explains how and why Amazon incorporated more powerful testing methodologies, ultimately leading them to the use of formal methods where TLA+ has become a cornerstone to our overall strategy.

Tim Rath
on Feb 21, 2015

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Comparing Elasticity of Reactive Frameworks

Elasticity is a key component in reactive systems and James Ward navigates the different characteristics of different implementations of this concept: Akka, Scala, RxJava, and more.

James Ward
on Feb 16, 2015

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The Quest for the One True Parser

Terence Parr shows the key practical advances in parsing from the last 25 years, provides algorithm comparisons, and separates the promises from reality.

Terence Parr
on Feb 15, 2015

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Building Reactive Services using Functional Programming

Rachel Reese sees reactive services and functional languages as a natural pair, demonstrating how functional concepts such as mailboxes and async workflows can help one craft reactive services.

Rachel Reese
on Feb 15, 2015

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The Evolution of Engineering Culture: Oh, the Places We've Been

Melissa Pierce discusses the history and present of CS culture, gender relations, and tensions between hardware and software engineering.

Melissa Pierce
on Feb 15, 2015

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Let It Crash! The Erlang Approach to Building Reliable Services

Brian Troutwine examines how functional programming and other concepts championed by Erlang can yield reactive services with just a change in thinking and a different approach to design.

Brian Troutwine
on Feb 10, 2015

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Reactive Programming with Rx

Ben Christensen summarizes why the Rx programming model was chosen and demonstrates how it is applied to a variety of use cases.

Ben Christensen
on Feb 10, 2015

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Groupon Engineering: Building Culture through the Experimentation MindSet

Sri Viswanath shares the ideas and program driving Groupon’s engineering culture.

Sri Viswanath
on Feb 08, 2015

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