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O'Reilly Velocity Conference 2017 - New York, New York

Learn more about what it's like to attend the O’Reilly Velocity Conference, taking place October 1-4, 2017 in New York, NY.

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Unconventional programming paradigms for the future, nowCarin Meier04m
Claims that neural nets approximate any function and that gradient descent can outproduce human-written code. Describes layered architectures like VGG16…
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The impact of design: How design influences outcomesCynthia Savard Saucier06m
Design decisions can kill: a call-routing system from Intrado uses a hardcoded identification counter that rejects new calls once it hits 40 million, causing…
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FTFY: Research advances in automatic bug repairClaire Le Goues04m
Research presents concrete methods and results for automatic source‑level bug repair using AST‑level genetic programming and combinations of program synthesis…
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Fly the airplaneKristopher Beevers07m
Advocates using short, field-tested checklists (inspired by the Cessna emergency fly the airplane item) and running real war games that launch real DDoS…
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You scream for microservices orchestration; I scream for batch...Joe Goldberg05m
Argues for treating batch automation as part of the application lifecycle by shipping jobs as code stored in SCM, built and tested through the SDLC and moved…
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Government is a system.Matt Cutts04m
A government tech team rebuilds Medicare payment systems to pay for outcomes not volume, standing up data pipelines that ingest claims, compute risk‑adjusted…
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Blockchains and cryptocurrencies: New paradigms for shared dataNeha Narula03m
Bitcoin is a payment system that removes banks by recording every transfer in a shared ledger maintained by thousands of networked computers, turning the…
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What if serverless was real?Nick Rockwell04m
Argues that handing scaling to Amazon and Google shifts where product value and careers live, citing Mike Roberts' common reaction of what are we giving up and…
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Above the line, below the line: A preview of the SNAFUcatchers Stella ReportDavid Woods, Richard Cook05m
Claims that rising technical complexity makes any accurate system model short lived and that frontline operators are the real snafu catchers drive a one‑year…
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Automating content delivery in a DevOps worldCraig Adams10m
Focuses on automating CDN work into CI/CD: push config and rollback within 60 seconds, purge cache by API or cache tag, feed CDN logs into SIEM for real‑time…
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The role of open source in a companyJessica Frazelle, Dino Dai Zovi04m
Company open source policy favors shipping code because the actual “secret sauce” seldom survives binaries: modern tools like interactive decompiler and…
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How real is real-user measurement?Robert Castley05m
Real-user measurement faces widespread blocking: RUM tags are often suppressed by ad blockers so collected data misses a segment of users. About 650 million…
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Mentorship and sponsorshipLara Hogan03m
Defines mentorship as advice and sponsorship as actively creating opportunities, with concrete examples like introductions or name drops, handing someone a…
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Using FPGA's and Xeon processors to accelerate cloud workloadsMichal Skiba06m
Intel announces a production-ready combination of FPGAs and Xeon CPUs with two form factors: a socket-integrated FPGA package and PCIe accelerator cards that…
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Monitoring API's within web pages and mobileRobert Castley07m
Catchpoint describes a platform that combines synthetic and real user monitoring with guided analytics to surface actionable visualizations. It runs API, DNS…
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DNS is the entry point for every application on the internetKristopher Beevers09m
DNS shifts from passive plumbing to a decision layer that routes users based on real-time signals: claim is that DNS lookup is the optimal moment to direct…
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Tackling the scale of video, mobile performance, and securityCraig Adams07m
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Data analytics accelerated with FPGA'sMike Strickland07m
Intel offers an Intel programmable PCIe card (low‑profile FPGA) shipping in volume first half 2018 with an open‑source host driver on GitHub and a framework to…
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Moving to the cloud is often an organizational barrier not technicalCasey West08m
Claim: cloud adoption fails mostly for organizational and cultural barriers, not tech. Recommendation: align dev, ops and leadership with SRE practices and…
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Deploying rapidly for continuous integrationHeidi Waterhouse06m
Deploys separate from activation using an app-level code snippet and a single control dashboard that tracks flags, supports gradual rollouts (example: 10%…
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