Track: Modern CS in the Real World

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Computer Science research did not stop at QuickSort or the LR algorithm. In this track we'll cover topics such as probabilistic algorithms and data structures, new security and distributed algorithms, advances in typing, formal methods, new approaches to concurrency and much more. Why? Because we need to tackle ever more data in shorter periods of time - but our CPUs don't get much faster.

Concurrency helps - but that just brings new problems to tackle, and meanwhile more moving parts just means more things that can fall over if we're not careful. Time to sneak a peek at approaches real companies use to tackle this issues using Computer Science research and results from the last few decades.

Track Host:
Ines Sombra
Engineer @Fastly
Ines Sombra is an Engineer at @Fastly, where she spends her time helping the Web go faster. Ines holds an M.S. in Computology with an emphasis on Cheesy 80’s Rock Ballads. She has a fondness for steak, fernet, and a pug named Gordo. In a previous life she was a Data Engineer.
10:35am - 11:25am

by Richard Kasperowski
Author of The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness

Open Space
11:50am - 12:40pm

by Alex Rasmussen
Principal Software Engineer @Trifacta

Building high-performance data processing and storage systems that can both scale up and scale out is hard. In this talk, we'll examine some lessons my team and I learned while building record-setting sorting systems at UCSD, and how re-examining your assumptions, understanding your hardware, and actively avoiding work can make building high-performance systems easier.

1:40pm - 2:30pm

by Sean Cribbs
Software Engineer @Comcast

We are building an instrumentation platform that runs across dozens of datacenters to provide operational visibility for internal systems and applications. This platform must remain up as much as possible and allow support and operations staff to understand and diagnose problems quickly. They must be able to ask questions like "what machines and applications are publishing metrics?", "what systems appear to be offline?", "what order did these errors occur in?",...

2:55pm - 3:45pm

by Caitie McCaffrey
Distributed Systems Engineer @Twitter

Distributed Systems are difficult to build and test for two main reasons: partial failure & asynchrony. These two realities of distributed systems must be addressed to create a correct system, and often times the resulting systems have a high degree of complexity. Because of this complexity, testing and verifying these systems is critically important. In this talk we will discuss strategies for proving a system is correct, like formal methods, and less strenuous methods of testing which...

4:10pm - 5:00pm

by Aysylu Greenberg
Software Engineer @Google

Modern systems in production rely on decades of computer science research. Over time, new architectural patterns emerge that enable more resilient and robust systems. In this talk, we'll discuss some of these patterns from systems I've worked on at Google and the related work that provide insights into the motivations behind them.

5:25pm - 6:15pm

by Nathan Taylor
Distributed System Engineer working on Caching @Fastly

Despite advances in software design and static analysis techniques, software remains incredibly complicated and difficult to reason about. Understanding highly-concurrent, kernel-level, and intentionally-obfuscated programs are among the problem domains that spawned the field of dynamic program analysis. More than mere debuggers, the challenge of dynamic analysis tools is to be able record, analyze, and replay execution without sacrificing performance. This talk...

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