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Brewing Java Applications in Sigma Managed Clusters
Kingsum Chow talks about the challenges of large-scale software deployments. Chows covers evaluating and estimating software performance at scale, and optimizing software for resource management.
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Tuning a Runtime for Both Productivity and Performance
Mei-Chin Tsai and Jared Parsons talk about how Microsoft’s .NET team designed the runtime environment to balance convenience, fast startup, serviceability, low latency, high throughput.
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The Trouble with Memory
Kirk Pepperdine talks about the steps to take to cure the problem of memory and also covers how the JVM can both help reduce the memory - strength of an application.
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“Quantum” Performance Effects: beyond the Core
Sergey Kuksenko talks about how (and how much) CPU microarchitecture details may have an influence on applications performance.
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Scaling up Performance Benchmarking
Anil Kumar and Monica Beckwith share application architecture decisions, observations points, etc. which can be applied when architecting, deploying and analyzing real production applications.
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Baby Got Feedback: How to Give and Take Feedback Like A Boss
Sarah Hagan uses empirical research, practical tips, and parodied song lyrics around how to be a better feedback receiver and become more effective in giving feedback.
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Chaos Engineering with Containers
Ana Medina discusses the benefits of using Chaos Engineering to inject failures in order to make our container infrastructure more reliable.
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Control Theory in Container Fleet Management
Vallery Lancey covers basic principles of observing systems, controller design, and PID controllers.
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The 10 Kubernetes Commandments
Bryan Liles and Carlos Amedee explore topics from booting Kubernetes clusters to running complex workloads as a list of 10 items.
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Disenchantment: Netflix Titus, Its Feisty Team, and Daemons
Andrew Spyker talks about Netflix's feisty team’s work across container runtimes, scheduling & control plane, and cloud infrastructure integration.
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The Highs and Lows of Stateful Containers
Alex Robinson walks through his experiences trying to reliably run a distributed database on Kubernetes, optimize its performance, and help others do the same in their heterogeneous environments.
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Real-world Architecture Panel
The panelists discuss the unique challenges and opportunities in software / hardware architectures that interact with the physical world, with particular emphasis on data flow, control, and ML.