Karen Casella
Karen is currently an engineering leader @ Netflix, where she is responsible for the teams that build the server-side infrastructure to enable a secure viewing experience for our members. Karen had previously led engineering and architecture teams @EBay & @Sun, before taking a ten year detour to start-up land. Karen is passionate about diversity and inclusion in technology organizations and how to encourage young people from under-represented groups to start their journey towards our incredible world of ever-changing technology.
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Microservices: Patterns & Practices
Evolving, observing, persisting, and building modern microservices
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Developer Experience: Level up Your Engineering Effectiveness
Improving the end to end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy, operate/understand. Tools, techniques, and trends.
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Modern Java Reloaded
Modern, Modular, fast, and effective Java. Pushing the boundaries of JDK 9 and beyond.
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Modern User Interfaces: Screens and Beyond
Zero UI, voice, mobile: Interfaces pushing the boundary of what we consider to be the interface
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Practical Machine Learning
Applied machine learning lessons for SWEs, including tech around TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, Caffe, & more
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Ethics in Computing
Inclusive technology, Ethics and politics of technology. Considering bias. Societal relationship with tech. Also the privacy problems we have today (e.g., GDPR, right to be forgotten)
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Goldman Sachs
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Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods, & probalistic programming
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Container and Orchestration Platforms in Action
Runtime containers, libraries, and services that power microservices
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Finding the Serverless Sweetspot
Stories about the pains and gains from migrating to Serverless.
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Chaos, Complexity, and Resilience
Lessons building resilient systems and the war stories that drove their adoption
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Real World Security
Practical lessons building, maintaining, and deploying secure systems
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Blockchain Enabled
Exploring Smart contracts, oracles, sidechains, and what can/cannot be done with blockchain today.
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21st Century Languages
Lessons learned from languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
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Empowered Teams
Safely running inclusive teams that are autonomous and self-correcting