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Software Design for Persistent Memory Systems
Howard Chu talks about both naive approaches to leveraging NVRAM, and reasons to avoid those approaches, as well as optimal, proven methods for building systems around persistent memory.
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The Future of Distributed Databases Is Relational
Sumedh Pathak talks about his team’s journey to create a more modern relational database, distributed systems, scaling Postgres, distributed query planner and the distributed deadlock detection.
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Chaos Engineering: Why the World Needs More Resilient Systems
Tammy Butow shares her experiences using chaos engineering to build resilient systems, when they couldn’t build their systems from scratch.
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Architecting the Blockchain for Failure
Conor Svensson discusses some of the different approaches taken in the Ethereum blockchain for handling failure.
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Pragmatic Resiliency: Super 6 & Sky Bet Evolution
Michael Maibaum talks about the reality of adapting a complex set of interacting, highly coupled applications to make them more resilient and better able to cope with failure.
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How Events Are Reshaping Modern Systems
Jonas Bonér explores the nature of events, what it means to be event-driven, and how to unleash the power of events.
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Engineering Culture Revived
Finbarr Joy highlights the techniques software development teams can adopt for themselves to establish a robust engineering culture and a ‘defence’ against misguided top down-driven ’transformations’.
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Building and Growing Sustainable Teams
Vlad Galu talks about how team dynamics should work to survive ‘difficult’ times and strive for “perfect” rather than “good enough”.
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An Engineering-led Culture at Scale
Amanda Bellwood talks about how to create a learning environment that encourages meaningful growth by empowering teams and individuals to drive their own progress.
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It's People, Stupid (People Are Stupid?)
Andy Walker’s proposition is that the reason things fail is usually people, not technology. This provocative discussion includes themes on ‘the broken human machine’, the ‘authority delusion’ and more
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Building Great Engineering Cultures Panel
The panelists discuss topics relating to the challenges of engineering culture development.
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Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Kevin Goldsmith shows what Avvo has done to build a foundation for a continuous improvement culture.
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