Josh Slocum is a Software Engineer at Indeed on the Search Quality team. As the principal developer on Osiris, he oversees the development of Indeed's highly flexible and scalable key-value store.
He received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree from The University of Texas at Austin, where he focused his time studying distributed systems and computer graphics. His computer science passions include data structures and algorithms, computer graphics, video game engines, and distributed systems.
When he's not programming, Josh enjoys basketball, video games, music, drinking craft beer, and spending time with his wife and his dog in Austin,Texas.
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Talk : Osiris: When Big Data Is Too Big for HBase
Other talks from track Solutions Track I
Tracks
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Microservices/ Serverless: Patterns and Practices
Stories of success and failure building modern service and function-based applications, including event sourcing, reactive, decomposition, & more.
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Distributed Stateful Systems
Architecting and leveraging NoSQL revisitied
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Evolving Java and the JVM: Mobile, Micro and Modular
Although the Java language is holding strong as a developer favourite, new languages and paradigms are being embraced on JVM.
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The Practice & Frontiers of AI
Learn about machine learning in practice and on the horizon
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Operating Systems: LinuxKit, Unikernels, & Beyond
Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualisation, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
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Stream Processing in the Modern Age
Compelling applications of stream processing & recent advances in the field
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Leading Edge Backend Languages
Code the future! How cutting-edge programming languages and their more-established forerunners can help solve today and tomorrow’s server-side technical problems.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied trends in Computer Science that are likely to affect Software Engineers today.
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DevEx: The Next Evolution of DevOps
Removing friction from the developer experience.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
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Tech Ethics in Action
Learning from the experiences of real-world companies driving technology decisions from ethics as much as technology.
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Security: Red XOR Blue Team
Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view
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Architecting for Failure
If you're not architecting for failure you're heading for failure
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Topics like next-gen architecture mixed with applied use cases found in today's large-scale systems, self-driving cars, network routing, scale, robotics, cloud deployments, and more.
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Observability: Logging, Alerting and Tracing
Observability in modern large distributed computer systems
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Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)
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Building Great Engineering Cultures & Organizations
Stories of cultural change in organizations
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Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)