Operating Elasticsearch with Ease at Scale
Discover strategies for operating Elasticsearch at scale, covering common issues, optimization techniques, and best practices for handling massive deployments with billions of ingests and millions of searches daily.
Building Service Ownership Using Documentation, Telemetry, and a Chance to Make Things Better
Explore strategies for building distributed service ownership in software teams, focusing on documentation, telemetry, and empowering teams to drive improvements in system reliability and performance.
Continuously Improving Culture through Design Decisions
Explore how technical decisions shape DevOps culture, focusing on Two Sigma's COIN platform. Learn strategies for fostering collaboration, innovation, and community in tech environments.
It's a Trap! How Abstractions Have Failed Us
Explores how excessive abstraction in tech can lead to complexity, loss of foundational knowledge, and disconnection from original problems. Offers insights on balancing abstraction with practicality.
Automatically Detect the Top Performance & Scalability Issues in Distributed Architectures
Explore common performance patterns in distributed systems and learn automated detection techniques using CNCF's Keptn project for CI/CD pipelines, focusing on SLI/SLO-based quality gates.
Implementing Distributed Consensus
Explore distributed consensus through "Skinny," a lock service. Learn Paxos protocol, design a simple consensus protocol, and tackle implementation challenges in distributed systems.
Microsecond Consensus for Microsecond Applications
Innovative consensus protocol leveraging RDMA for microsecond-scale replication and rapid fail-over in latency-sensitive applications, significantly outperforming existing systems.
AIFM - High-Performance, Application-Integrated Far Memory
Explore AIFM, a high-performance system enabling efficient use of remote memory in datacenters. Learn about its API, runtime, and benefits for applications facing memory constraints.
Tolerating Slowdowns in Replicated State Machines Using Copilots
Innovative consensus protocol for replicated state machines that maintains normal latency despite slowdown of any single replica, using pilot and copilot for redundancy and fast takeovers.
MySQL Automation at Facebook Scale
Explore Facebook's MySQL automation systems for managing thousands of servers across data centers, including design, architecture, and real-world challenges faced at massive scale.
Scaling Shopify's Multi-Tenant Architecture across Multiple Datacenters
Explore Shopify's journey from a single-database Rails app to a multi-datacenter setup, focusing on scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery strategies for multi-tenant architectures.
Food for Thought - What Restaurants Can Teach Us about Reliability
Explore how restaurant operations parallel computer system reliability, drawing insights from dining experiences to enhance understanding of complex system management and fault tolerance.
Automating Performance Tuning with Machine Learning
Explore machine learning-driven automation for optimizing Kubernetes microservices and JVM settings, enhancing performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness in complex tech stacks.
From 15,000 Database Connections to Under 100 - A Tech Debt Tale
Explore a multi-year tech debt resolution journey, focusing on reducing database connections from 15,000 to under 100. Learn strategies for handling scaling challenges in distributed systems.
A Political Scientist's View on Site Reliability
Explore how political science concepts can provide fresh perspectives on site reliability, team dynamics, and simplifying complex production environments in software engineering.
Kind Engineering - How to Engineer Kindness
Explore practical strategies for fostering kindness in software engineering, covering code reviews, psychological safety, feedback, and workplace honesty to create happier teams and companies.
How I Can Unlock Your Smart Door - Security Pitfalls in Cross-Vendor IoT Access Control
Explores security vulnerabilities in cross-vendor IoT access control, focusing on delegation chains and authorization flaws in smart home devices and cloud platforms.
Using the Observer Effect and Cyber Feng Shui - Jacob Torrey
Explore techniques for detecting system monitoring and creating secure environments. Learn about architectural "tells", physical unclonable functions, and strategies for evading analysis in computer systems.
DCART - Decoupled Components for Automated Ransomware Testing
Explore a framework for controlled ransomware testing, focusing on decoupled components for detonation and detection. Learn about design, development, and automated testing methodologies for behavioral ransomware analysis.
Opaque at Both Ends - Information Warfare and Decision Making
Explore information warfare, decision-making processes, and cyber threats in this talk by the Grugq. Learn to navigate the complexities of modern information landscapes and protect against potential risks.
KalDB - A Cloud Native Log Search Platform
Explore KalDB, a cloud-native log search platform addressing Elasticsearch limitations. Learn about its architecture, real-time visibility, automatic field conflict handling, and cost-saving techniques.