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Stateful Cloud Services at Neon: Navigating Design Decisions and Trade-Offs
John Spray discusses the complexities of stateful cloud service design, using Neon Serverless Postgres as a case study, where to put data and how many copies, ensuring availability, scaling a service.
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Rethinking Connectivity at the Edge: Scaling Fleets of Low-Powered Devices Using NATS.io
Jeremy Saenz discusses NATS, an open-source project for services communication, and how to leverage NATS to streamline communication and fleet management for devices at the edge.
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Leveraging Determinism
Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services.
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Architecting for the Edge
The panelists discuss main differences in how one should design and build services when embracing the Edge as part of the system architecture.
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Federated GraphQL to Solve Service Sprawl at Major League Baseball
Olessya Medvedeva and Matt Oliver discuss how they have begun to implement a Federated GraphQL architecture to solve the issue of service discovery, sprawl and ultimately getting the data needed.
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How to Tame Your Service APIs: Evolving Airbnb’s Architecture
Jessica Tai discusses the challenges scaling to hundreds of services, how to simplify APIs, the trade-offs in API design, and how to test and operate flexible aggregator APIs and service blocks.
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Life of a Packet through Istio
Matt Turner talks about Istio - a service mesh for Kubernetes that offers advanced networking features. He gives insight into Istio’s full power, and its architecture.
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Airbnb’s Great Migration: Building Services at Scale
Jessica Tai recaps her QCon SF 2018 “Great Migration” presentation then continues the story with a focus on how Airbnb is building, operating, and scaling its expanding network of services.
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Develop Hundreds of Kubernetes Services at Scale with Airbnb
Melanie Cebula identifies key problems that make out-of-the-box Kubernetes less friendly to developers, and strategies for addressing them, based on Airbnb’s experience.
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Planting the Service Design Seeds at CBC
Hira Javed discusses the increasing adoption of the service design discipline, and CBC's adventures in embracing this approach.
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Bootiful Testing
Mario Gray and Josh Long discuss how to test Spring applications, services, and web applications, ensuring that API producers and API consumers work well together.
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Efficient Service Communication with gRPC
Petra Bierleutgeb takes a look at gRPC, discussing how its support for HTTP/2, protocol buffers, type-safety and others makes it an alternative to REST/JSON-based service communication.