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Crushing Tech Debt through Automation at Coinbase
Rob Witoff presents how Coinbase attacks tech debt, including deployments, testing, immutable + codified infrastructure, sharing his experience in rebuilding infrastructure from scratch in 24h.
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The Distributed Pit of Success @Deliveroo
Greg Beech discusses how Deliveroo is using DDD principles and powerful building blocks to allow engineers of any level to quickly and successfully deploy new systems into production.
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Julia: A Modern Language for Modern ML
Simon Byrne and Viral Shah talk about Julia, a modern high-performance, dynamic language for technical computing, with many features which make it ideal for machine learning.
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Deep Learning @Google Scale: Smart Reply in Inbox
Anjuli Kannan describes the algorithmic, scaling, deployment considerations involved in a an application of cutting-edge deep learning in a user-facing product: the Smart Reply feature of Google Inbox
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This Will Cut You: Go's Sharper Edges
Thomas Shadwell talks about how distinct, exploitable misuse patterns arise in software languages, and through examples in Go hopes to show the language's distinct security characteristics.
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Making the Most out of a Bad Day as a Developer
Wim Remes talks about the war stories from his experience as a penetration tester and the numerous years of work with development teams building secure development practices.
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Building Secure Player Experiences at Riot Games
David Rook talks about the Riot Games Application Security program. He focusses on the tech and social aspects of the program and why he feels both are important when it comes to writing secure code.
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How to Backdoor Invulnerable Code
Josh Schwartz takes a look at the real tactics, with examples, used to compromise and backdoor seemingly secure products by exploiting the humans and systems that create them.
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Blockchain: The Oracle Problems
Paul Sztorc talks about why the oracle problem is so hard (the historical evolution of failures, why they fail), and the basics of blockchain ("blockchain as immortal software", ledger "rents").
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Big Ideas: Decentralized Storage
David Vorick talks about the need for distributed/decentralized storage, real life use cases for distributed storage systems, dealing with data loss in a distributed system, overviewing IPFS and Sia.
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Case Study: Alternate Blockchains
Jeremy Rand talks about Namecoin and Monero, the advantages to alternate blockchains, and risks of using chains that are not as secured or are merge mined.
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Practical Blockchains: Building on Bitcoin
Peter Todd answers the questions: why use Bitcoin over other blockchains, what is safe, future proof ways to peg data to Bitcoin's blockchain and what is Bitcoin script, and how it can be used.
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