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BLESS: Better Security and Ops for SSH Access
How can using SSH certificates improve security and simplify operations for instance access at Netflix-scale? How can you smoothly transition existing infrastructure to use SSH Certificates? Netflix created and uses BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as an AWS Lambda function and is...
More Reliable Delivery with Monte Carlo & Mapping
Most teams are familiar with estimates using relative sizing, or story points based on the Fibonacci series, or t-shirt sizes. Most teams either agonize over the details of every estimate, hoping to be as accurate as possible, or rush through planning knowing the result will be off no matter the...
Nonconformist Resilience: DB-Backed Job Queues
Resilience in the face of chaos is a tall order. As a vertically integrated financial institution where rapidly delivered features with complete data consistency and scrupulous correctness are all non-negotiable, Betterment had its work cut out for it. So we moved the goalposts - inward. By...
Succession: A Refactoring Story
Refactoring sometimes devolves into an appalling mess. You're chasing a broken test suite, and every change just makes it worse. At other times it's a slow, controlled process culminating in dreadful design. This talk presents an end-to-end refactoring that demonstrates...
AutoCAD & WebAssembly: Moving a 30 Year Code Base to the Web
AutoCAD is a computer-aided design desktop software application that was first released in 1982. With the advent of the internet age, there comes a need to extend AutoCAD's capabilities to the browser. However, the massive, complex, and constantly changing code base makes it impractical to...
How to Evolve Kubernetes Resource Management Model
Built with Linux container and cgroup technologies, Kubernetes provides an efficient framework for deploying different kinds of application workloads across multiple machines and compute platforms. Over the past five years, Kubernetes has evolved to support increasingly complex and diverse...
Interviews
Skype's Journey From P2P: It's Not Just About the Services
What is the work that you do today at Skype?
I’m managing teams that handle the people infrastructure, contacts, identity, experimentation, and push notifications for Skype and Teams.
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Read Full InterviewPracticalDDD: Bounded Contexts + Events => Microservices
What is the focus of your work today?
I'm currently working as a software architect at Particular Software, the makers of NServiceBus. As an architect, I guide clients to help review their design or proof of concept to see how they can build loosely coupled systems using both event-driven architecture and domain-driven design (DDD).
Read Full InterviewForced Evolution: Shopify's Journey to Kubernetes
What’s the focus of your work today?
I'm on the cloud platform team. Mostly I'm working with Kubernetes. The main goal is to make sure our platform for developers is working. That may mean that I'm debugging some issues with Docker or Kubernetes, or I’m writing Golang to automate the platform. Today, I'm actually working on improving our cluster life cycle, we are...
Read Full InterviewRethinking HCI With Neural Interfaces @CTRLlabsco
Read Full InterviewBuilding and Operating a Serverless Data Pipeline
What is the focus of your work these days?
I'm the lead of the data platform team at Intent. Intent is a data science company that helps commerce sites maximize the value for each person who visits their site. Our main product is an ad network that runs on travel sites. On the data platform team we oversee our data pipeline, that collects data from ad servers and various...
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