Speaker: Philip Fisher-Ogden
Philip Fisher-Ogden is the Director of Engineering for Discovery & Playback Services at Netflix, responsible for the cloud-based APIs/systems that enable finding and watching streaming content. These systems are the first critical layer that supports the delivery of over 140 million hours of streaming video per day to 125M+ global members. Prior to Netflix, Philip explored the impact technology could have on education as a Teach for America teacher, and then traveled from startup to national lab to graduate school before his love for movies won out and brought him to Netflix. Philip received a BS degree from UCSD and a MS degree from UC Davis, where he focused on databases and information systems.
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Tracks
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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