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Understanding Architectures for Multi-Region Data Residency
Alex Strachan discusses challenges to build multi-region data storages, understanding why and when a business needs to do this, who are the real stakeholders, and who owns what.
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Large Language Models for Code: Exploring the Landscape, Opportunities, and Challenges
Loubna Ben Allal discusses Large Language Models (LLMs), exploring the current developments of these models, how they are trained, and how they can be leveraged with custom codebases.
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From Mainframes to Microservices - the Journey of Building and Running Software
Suhail Patel discusses the platforms and software patterns that made microservices popular, and how virtual machines and containers have influenced how software is built and run at scale today.
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Streaming Databases: Embracing the Convergence of Stream Processing and Databases
Yingjun Wu discusses the evolution of streaming databases, and the features and design principles that set streaming databases apart from conventional database systems and stream processing engines.
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Use Engineering Strategy to Reduce Friction and Improve Developer Experience
Will Larson discusses what problems engineering strategy solves, examples of real engineering strategies, how to rollout engineering strategy, troubleshooting why your strategy rollout isn’t working.
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Optimizing JVM for the Cloud: Strategies for Success
Tobi Ajila discusses the challenges and innovations in JVM performance for cloud deployments, highlighting the integration of these JVM features with container technologies.
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Modern Compute Stack for Scaling Large AI/ML/LLM Workloads
Jules Damji discusses which infrastructure should be used for distributed fine-tuning and training, how to scale ML workloads, how to accommodate large models, and how CPUs and GPUs can be utilized.
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Server Driven UI - Streamlining Mobile Development and Release
Thomas Chao discusses SDUI for mobile, what they are, why they are starting to become more prevalent, and the spectrum of possible options one can consider when looking into an SDUI framework.
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The Creative Act: How Staff+ Is More Art Than Science
David Grizzanti talks about his path to Staff+ and how he views it as more art than science, looking at the parallels between creating art, creating software, and dealing with organizational dynamics.
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Building Guardrails for Enterprise AI Applications W/ LLMs
Shreya Rajpal introduces Guardrails AI, an open-source platform designed to mitigate risks and enhance the safety and efficiency of LLMs.
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Global Capacity Management through Strategic Demand Allocation
Ranjith Kumar discusses abstractions and guarantees, the design and implementation for managing workloads across 10s of regions, categorizing & modeling, and achieving global capacity management.
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Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla
Lily Mara and Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it.
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