This is a list of our favorite presentations from 2019. We will update this list throughout the year.
Mature Microservices and How to Operate Them
Sarah Wells (@sarahjwells) at QCon London 2019
PID Loops and the Art of Keeping Systems Stable
Colm MacCárthaigh (@colmmacc) at QCon New York 2019
Speeding Up Innovation
Adrian Cockcroft (@adrianco) at CraftConf - May 2019
Cultivating Production Excellence
Liz Fong-Jones (@lizthegrey) at QCon London 2019
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Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Jez Humble (@jezhumble) at Agile India - March 2019
If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, It Doesn’t Matter How Fast You Get There
Nicole Forsgren (@nicolefv) at Google Cloud Next - April 2019
Safe Lambda Deployments
Sean Sullivan (@tinyrobots) at Seattle Serverless Meetup - February 2019
Software Design in the 21st Century
Martin Fowler (@martinfowler) at Etsy Engineering speaker series - February 2019
The AWS Billing Machine and Optimizing Cloud Costs at Stripe
Ryan Lopopolo (@lopopolo) at DevOpsDays Seattle 2019
Etsy: Migrating a Monolith to the Cloud
Keyur Govande (@keyurdg) at SREcon19 Americas - March 2019
Target’s Application Platform
Jay Chandrashekaran and Jim Beyers at Google Cloud Next - April 2019
Applying the Serverless Mindset to Any Tech
Ben Kehoe (@ben11kehoe) at ServerlessDays Boston - March 2019
How AWS builds Serverless Services Using Serverless
Chris Munns (@chrismunns) at ServerlessDays Boston - March 2019
DevOps Vs. SRE: Competing Standards or Friends?
Seth Vargo (@sethvargo) at Google Cloud Next - April 2019
Modern Continuous Delivery
Ken Mugrage (@kmugrage) at DevOpsDays Copenhagen - April 2019
Progressive Delivery
James Governor (@monkchips) at QCon London 2019
Testing in Production at Scale at Uber
Amit Gud (@amitgud) - SRECon19 Americas - March 25, 2019
Driving Technology Transformation at WeWork
Hugo Haas (@whugoh) at QCon New York 2019
How Retailers Prepare for Black Friday on Google Cloud Platform
Kiran Davuluri, Jimit Ladha, and Andre Fatala at Google Cloud Next - April 2019
Surviving Black Friday: tales from an e-commerce engineer at Glossier
Aaron Suggs (@ktheory) - PaymentsFn - April 17, 2019
Platforms at Twilio: Unlocking Developer Effectiveness
Justin Kitagawa (@justinmkitagawa) at CraftConf - May 2019
Moving Fast at Scale
Randy Shoup (@randyshoup) at CraftConf - May 2019
Scaling your Architecture with Services and Events
Randy Shoup (@randyshoup) at GeeCON 2019
Cultivating Architecture
Birgitta Böckeler (@birgitta410) and Martin Fowler (@martinfowler) at CraftConf - May 2019
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Database Schema Migrations with Zero Downtime
Michiel Rook (@michieltcs) at DevOpsDays Copenhagen - April 2019
Observability: Superpowers for Developers
Christine Yen (@cyen) at Monitorama PDX - June 2019
Taking Human Performance Seriously In Software
John Allspaw (@allspaw) at Monitorama PDX - June 2019
Integration Testing with Docker and Testcontainers
Kevin Wittek (@kiview) at JEEConf - April 2019
Scala Error Management: Future vs ZIO
John De Goes (@jdegoes) at Dublin Scala User Group - May 2019
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A Tour of Scala 3
Martin Odersky (@odersky) at Scala Days Lausanne 2019
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Scala Best Practices
Nicolas Rinaudo (@NicolasRinaudo) at Scala Days Lausanne 2019
Deconstructing the Monolith at Shopify
Kirsten Westeinde (@kmkwesteinde) at Shopify Unite - June 2019
Bringing DevOps to the Database
Baron Schwartz (@xaprb) at Percona Live - May 2019
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Optimizing Database Performance and Efficiency
Baron Schwartz (@xaprb) at Percona Live - May 2019
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Develop Hundreds of Kubernetes Services at Scale with Airbnb
Melanie Cebula (@MelanieCebula) at QCon London 2019
Adopting TypeScript at Scale (AirBnb)
Brie Bunge (@briebunge) at JSConf Hawaii 2019
Docker and Java
Mohammed Aboullaite (@laytoun) at Voxxed Days Singapore 2019
Reliable processing in a streaming payment system at Uber
Emilee Urbanek (@_urbs_) and Manas Kelshikar at MoneyCon 2019
Payments as a service at AirBnb
Sophie Behr and John Chew at MoneyCon 2019
Evolution of Revenue Optimization at Dropbox
Kirill Sapchuk and Evgeny Skarbovsky at MoneyCon 2019
Payment Transaction Routing at LinkedIn
Tim Tan (@tim-tan) at MoneyCon 2019
Books: Scalable, Flexible, and Immutable Storage of Square’s Financials
Anthony Bishopric (@sentiental) at MoneyCon 2019
Payment Network Tokens at Netflix
Kasia Trapszo and Remi Duvergey at MoneyCon 2019
Streaming Your Shared Ride at Lyft
Thomas Weise (@thweise) at Berlin Buzzwords 2019
Releasing the World’s Largest Python Site Every 7 Minutes (deployments at Instagram)
Perry Randall at SREcon19 Asia/Pacific 2019
Kubernetes As Code
Joe Duffy (@funcofjoe) at New York Kubernetes Meetup June 2019
Cloud Native CI/CD with Jenkins X and Tekton Pipelines
Christie Wilson (@bobcatwilson) and James Rawlings (@jdrawlings) at QCon London 2019
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