Systems

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Leveraging Determinism

Thursday Dec 1 / 12:30PM PST

Determinism is a very powerful concept when paired with fast business logic. We discuss both intuitive and not-so-obvious architecture choices that can be made to dramatically scale and simplify systems with these properties.

Speaker image - Frank Yu

Frank Yu

Senior Engineering Manager @Coinbase

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24/7 State Replication

Thursday Dec 1 / 10:10AM PST

Systems that operate non-stop, 24/7 are standard in many consumer-facing industries. Often, but definitely not always, these systems do not have aggressive SLAs nor high availability needs to the degree that some financial systems demand. But that is changing.

Speaker image - Todd Montgomery

Todd Montgomery

Ex-NASA Researcher and High Performance Distributed Systems Whisperer