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Dare Mighty Things: What NASA's Endeavors Teach Us about the Power of Calculated RISCs
Khawaja Shams explores the essence of calculated risks, discussing why these risks are worth taking, how to identify and mitigate potential downsides, and the characteristics of good risks.
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A Walk along the Complexity-Performance Curve
Richard Startin explores the relationship between complexity and performance through the lens of recent improvements to the Java String class, visiting continuous profiling and some assembly code.
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From a Lambda-Lith to an Event Driven Architecture – Lessons Learned
Leo Hanisch discusses the challenges of the "Lambda-Lith" approach and the benefits of embracing EDAs.
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Borderless Cloud: Designing, Implementing, and Securing Apps across Multiple Clouds
Adora Nwodo explores the complexities of seamlessly integrating multiple clouds into an application's architecture, deployment processes, and CI/CD pipelines.
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The (Not So) Hidden Social Drivers behind the Highest Performing Engineering Teams
Lizzie Matusov delves into how trust and psychological safety serve as powerful signals of team success with practical methods to evaluate and measure these key social dimensions.
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Powering User Experiences with Streaming Dataflow
Alana Marzoev discusses the fundamentals of streaming dataflow and the architecture of ReadySet, a streaming dataflow system designed specifically for operational workloads.
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Building a Lightning Fast Firewall with Java & eBPF
Johannes Bechberger discusses building a high-throughput firewall leveraging the combined power of eBPF and Java.
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Practical Benchmarking: How to Detect Performance Changes in Noisy Results
Matt Fleming provides tips for understanding noise, where it comes, and techniques for fighting it, plus some anecdotes and real-life examples from the world of open-source.
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Pioneering the Future: Advancing Infrastructure for AI Agents
AI agents, powered by RAG and vector databases, will anticipate needs, automate workflows, and supervise agents. This talk explores infrastructure, security, and impact to help enterprises harness AI.
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Navigators: Decentralizing Decisions and Empowering ICs at Carta
Shawna Martell and Dan Fike discuss why Carta started the Navigators program, how they formed their initial group, what they’ve learned so far, and how to leverage a similar program.
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Elevate Developer Experience with Generative AI Capabilities on AWS
Olalekan Elesin discusses how generative AI tools can improve productivity, streamline workflows, and foster a more efficient and effective development environment.
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A Zero Trust Future for Applications: Practical Implementation and Pitfalls
Ashish Rajan shares a practical guide to working on zero trust, exploring where it fails before it starts and where engineers should see quick wins. Surprisingly, the answer is not really DevSecOps.