Adrian Cockcroft

JULY 18, 2023

For a more detailed comparison of the cloud providers based on 2021 numbers see my QCon London talk from last March. Users of the AWS Customer Carbon Footprint tool are mostly going to see zero carbon reports until AWS starts to report scope 3.

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InfoQ

JULY 18, 2019

At QCON New York 2019, Andjelko Iharos presented how CTO Willy Tarreau and the HAProxy team implemented a scheduler using an EBtree data structure to optimize performance and memory usage of the HAProxy load balancer. By K Jonas.

Design 45

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The Symphonia

AUGUST 20, 2019

link] Next up is John, who took his talk “Building Resilient Serverless Systems” to QCon London. which helps you understand the limitations of a serverless approach, and learn a practical set of techniques for dealing with them.

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Tim Kadlec

MARCH 16, 2018

I recently got back from London where I was presenting at QCon. Typically I enjoy single-track events more than multi-track events, but QCon did an impressive job of curating the talks. I had the privilege of closing QCon’s first ever ethics track.

Education 45

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Speed Curve

MARCH 25, 2018

He has spoken at numerous conferences including Velocity, Fluent, QCon, SmashingConf, Beyond Tellerand, and WebStock. We're excited to announce that SpeedCurve is partnering with Tim Kadlec to provide consulting services to our customers! Tim is a recognized expert when it comes to web performance.

Website 40

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

Timestamp: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:47:26 -0700 Tags: unit=grams model=local (or marketplace) pod= node= namespace= instance= project= account= region=us-east-1a I launched this proposal via a discussion at the Green Software Foundation and shared it as part of my QCon London talk on Cloud Provider Sustainability.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

The Symphonia

MARCH 13, 2018

Last week, John was in London speaking at QCon on “Serverless and Java in the Real World”. See our complete speaking schedule here. If you’re looking for training we have several tutorials and workshops on the calendar.

Serverless 40

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The Symphonia

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Safari subscription required for full talk, slides here ) John gave tutorials on “Serverless Content Delivery ” at OSCON, and a talk on “Building resilient Serverless Systems” at Velocity Europe, which he’ll be reprising at QCon London in March. Oh, and we became AWS Standard Partners too!

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My colleague, Justin Becker, explores this in detail in his QCon talk, including the topic of emotional intelligence (EQ). See the earlier sections for more characteristics, and my colleague's QCon presentation: [Am I a Brilliant Jerk?] ## Conclusion Should brilliant jerks be tolerated? In the next section I'll share an example.

Engineering 111

Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111

InfoQ

APRIL 25, 2024

Jenna Zeigen discusses front-end performance issues encountered by Slack as they continue to grow and evolve the desktop app. By Jenna Zeigen

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Team members presented this work at QCon San Francisco (and were two of the top three attended talks at the conference!): Last year, we started to explore a new Product Access Strategy (PACS) and are currently working on moving it into production for several new experiences in the Netflix streaming product.

Architecture 221

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InfoQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering. By Yao Yue

Engineering 99

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InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Lily Mara, Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it. By Lily Mara, Hunter Laine

Design 60

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InfoQ

MARCH 16, 2024

Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu discuss some of the tricks used in their pursuit to lower read latency and to reach 1M operations per second per node. By Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu

Latency 83

Latency Design Scalability Architecture 83

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture. By John Spray

Performance 109

Performance C++ Architecture Systems 109

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Billy Lynch, Zack Newman discuss the architecture and internals of Sigstore and keyless signing, along with the security considerations that drove the design. By Billy Lynch, Zack Newman

Infrastructure 67

Infrastructure Scalability Software Software 67

InfoQ

MARCH 26, 2024

Lesley Cordero focuses on how Platform Engineering can drive sustainability for growing organizations through DevOps principles, centralization, and scalable technical practices. By Lesley Cordero

Engineering 57

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2022

Me at QCon London giving an in-person talk I prepared with Miro. When it comes to presenting, I normally export to PDF the night before so I have an offline copy if needed. I’ve presented a PDF using the MacOS PDF viewer to audiences of a few hundred, and it’s great even on big screens.

Virtualization 52

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InfoQ

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Surabhi Diwan discusses how the Netflix’ membership team outgrew many of its technology and architectural choices as memberships went from a few hundred thousand to 200 million. By Surabhi Diwan

Architecture 65

Architecture Technology Technology Design 65

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture. By Peter Lawrey

Scalability 73

Scalability Efficiency Systems Architecture 73

InfoQ

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Aditi Gupta discusses the design choices made early on during service development that were crucial to scaling operations later on at Netflix. By Aditi Gupta

Design 55

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InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

Latency 52

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InfoQ

JULY 7, 2023

Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale. By Facundo Agriel

Systems 52

Systems Storage Architecture Design 52

InfoQ

JUNE 23, 2023

Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services. By Frank Yu

Systems 52

Systems Design Scalability Architecture 52

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phil Calçado explores how they dealt with the hyper growth phase and what are the changes and initiatives they have put in place to make sure that they keep growing and pushing the envelope. By Phil Calçado

Design 52

Design Scalability Architecture Performance 52

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Shannon Morrison, Scott Behrens discuss how to perform application risk analysis at scale. By Shannon Morrison, Scott Behrens.

Performance 81

Performance Virtualization Scalability DevOps 81

InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Anderson Parra, Vitor Pellegrino discuss how their ticketing systems work and cover the virtual waiting room – the primary component that allows them to handle high-traffic ticket on-sales. By Anderson Parra, Vitor Pellegrino.

Traffic 52

Traffic Virtualization Systems Design 52

InfoQ

JULY 8, 2020

Michelle Garrett talks about the journey of introducing and then scaling a GraphQL BFF to serve multiple applications. She covers the benefits of the Backend For Frontend pattern and why it's a popular way to introduce GraphQL. She talks about how to remain agile and support a production application throughout this process. By Michelle Garrett.

Processing 92

Processing Design Scalability Architecture 92

InfoQ

MARCH 25, 2022

Selina Liu walks through what it takes to decompose a large and complex monolith into independent, performant services, and how they evolve and scale the architecture with changing business needs. By Selina Liu.

Architecture 57

Architecture Performance Design Scalability 57