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 This podcast hits on topics from several of Nubank’s recent QCon talks and includes things like: Nubank’s stack, functional programming, event sourcing, defining service boundaries, recommendations on reasoning about services, tips (or tweaks) on the second iteration of their initial architecture and more. (Podcast) |
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 Sarah Aerni covers the nuts and bolts of the Einstein Platform, a system that enables the automation and scaling of Artificial Intelligence to 1000s of customers, each with multiple models. The data ingestion, automated machine learning, instrumentation and intelligent monitoring and alerting make it possible to serve the varied needs of many different businesses. (Presentation)
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 Nikhil Dandekar discusses how Quora extracts intelligence from questions using machine learning, including question-topic labeling, removing duplicate questions, ranking questions & answers, and more. He highlights lessons he has learned from applying state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to consumer products at scale. (Presentation)
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| Buoyant, the company behind the JVM-powered Linkerd service mesh, has released “Conduit”, a new experimental Kubernetes-specific service mesh, with the proxy data plane written in Rust and the control plane written in Golang. Conduit is not Linkerd 2.0. -- and targets a different use case -- and Buoyant has stated that they will continue to develop and provide commercial support for Linkerd. (News) |
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 Heather Wilde discusses what motivates people to hack, what it takes to become a Certified Ethical Hacker, and who is hiring hackers today. (Presentation) |
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| Facebook’s open-source static analysis tool, Infer, now ships with support for detecting race conditions in Java code via RacerD. (News) |
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| Parcel.js is a new open source JavaScript Module Bundler that launched on December 5th. Parcel’s launch announcement touted speed and zero configuration as differentiators from existing module bundlers like webpack, browserify, and rollup, and claiming up to a 10X speedup over webpack when using its built-in caching. (News) |
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 Brian Chambers talks about how Chick-fil-A architected the IoT platform and created a digital ecosystem that enables their business to deploy IoT solutions to restaurants. He talks about their approach to secure device onboarding, how they’ve applied Identity Management to IoT, how they govern interactions between different "things" and how they provide a Docker-based edge compute infrastructure. (Presentation)
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 Given the distributed nature of the software systems we’re now building, and the distributed nature of the teams building them, it's more important than ever to understand the basics of software architecture. As a short introduction to the topic and to debunk some myths, here are five things that every software developer should know about software architecture. (Article) |
 Roopa Tangirala takes a look at Netflix’s common platform used to manage, maintain, and scale persistence infrastructures (including building reliable systems on unreliable infrastructure). She shares the benefits, pitfalls, and lessons learned from their polyglot persistence architecture to shape the success of various services. (Presentation)
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 Rafael Schloming talks about how the real goal of microservices is to break up a monolithic development workflow. He shows how to build software enabling to move fast and make things. (Presentation)
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 Eric Brewer explores continuous evolution, which is the ability to add features easily to a running service and is key to high velocity in development, focusing on immutability to decouple specification from instantiation. Similarly, declarative techniques enable automation, and specialization of APIs enables better support for classes of tasks, including those that are stateless. (Presentation)
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 The book Fit for Purpose by David Anderson and Alexei Zheglov explores how companies can understand their customers and develop products that fit with the purpose(s) their customers have. It provides a framework to help you understand customers’ purposes, segment your market according to purpose, and manage the portfolio of products and services to create happy customers. (Article) |
 Ariya Hidayat discusses the significance of tracking scopes and deliverables of a project, then presents a few techniques which can be useful to invoke changes to the organization, and to nudge the strategic directions. He also explores a few common leverages to improve the narrative of both the verbal and written communication, to amplify the clarity, reduce ambiguities, and deliver the message. (Presentation)
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 Sandy Mamoli shares learnings from her professional sports career, covering topics such as meritocracy and diversity, rapid feedback, radical candor and high-performance teams. (Presentation) |
