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Past Presentations
The Present and Future of Serverless Observability
As engineers, we're empowered by advancements in cloud platforms to build ever more complex systems that can achieve amazing feats at a scale previously only possible for the elite few. The monitoring tools have evolved over the years to accommodate our growing needs with these increasingly...
Lambda Architectures: a Snapshot, a Stream, & a Bunch of Deltas
We all got so excited about breaking apart our monoliths and liberating our microservices. At HBC Tech, our work on luxury e-commerce experiences across gilt.com, saks.com, lordandtaylor.com, thebay.com and saksoff5th.com shows us that unconstrained, organic...
Actors or Not: Async Event Architectures
With more and more companies adopting microservices and service-oriented architectures, it becomes clear that the HTTP/RPC synchronous communication (while great) is not always the best option for every use case. In this presentation, I discuss two approaches to an asynchronous event-based...
Interviews
The Present and Future of Serverless Observability
What is the focus of your work today?
At the moment, I’m building the backend services for a real-time multiplayer game on mobile, including an inhouse networking stack that will be deployed globally and supports both TCP and reliable UDP. We’re still doing a lot of tuning, and would put an early alpha build in front of users for external validation on our networking...
Read Full InterviewActors or Not: Async Event Architectures
What is the focus of your work today?
I work on a large-scale data pipeline at Activision. We consume various telemetry information from Call of Duty games. Currently I'm mostly focused on ingestion and stream processing. Actually, stream processing is a pretty big area of interest for me recently and I'm trying to learn and absorb as much available information as...
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