I am leading the implementation of an upgraded scalable engine for our distributed build system. It’s part of the shared infrastructure that Google engineers utilize every day. I also organize our internal “Papers We Love” community at Google, where we read computer science papers and discuss them. In addition, I enjoy collaborating with the open source community and sharing my knowledge of performance benchmarking.

I am going to discuss things like the use of leases for distributed locking and determining liveness in systems. In addition, I’ll discuss how we can make data pipelines more resilient and adaptable to variable load. Finally, I’ll show how we can trade off accuracy for performance and resilience of large scale systems. This last part is a very exciting and relatively new area of research.

Yes. One of the pieces of feedback I’ve gotten was that while the Staged Event-Driven Architecture pattern is interesting and it helped attendees who are new to distributed systems to understand the motivation behind this architecture better, it is a very familiar topic to a lot of distributed systems practitioners. So I will still discuss this subject in my talk, because there were several practitioners who found it helpful, I’m planning to put more focus on the field of inaccurate computations.