InfoQ Homepage QCon San Francisco 2023 Content on InfoQ
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Generative Search: Practical Advice for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Sam Partee discusses Vector embeddings in LLMs, a tool capable of capturing the essence of unstructured data used by LLMs to gain access to a wealth of contextually relevant knowledge.
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Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation
Sarah Aslanifar discusses leveraging continuous learning to drive efficiency, eliminate waste, and significantly improve product outcomes, covering the crucial role of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).
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Defensible Moats: Unlocking Enterprise Value with Large Language Models
Nischal HP discusses risk mitigation, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework implementation to achieve sustainability goals, strategic procurement, spend analytics, data compliance.
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The Incident Lifecycle: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals
Vanessa Huerta Granda describes how to apply resilience throughout the incident lifecycle in order to turn incidents into opportunities, looking at real-life examples.
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Fast, Scalable, Secure: WebAssembly and the Future of Isolation
Tal Garfinkel discusses the isolation technologies that underlie WebAssembly, and the limitations of the current state-of-the-art.
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Kubernetes without YAML
David Flanagan discusses using programming languages to describe Kubernetes resources, sharing constructs to deploy Kubernetes resources, and making Kubernetes resources testable and policy-driven.
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Building a Successful Platform: Acceleration, Autonomy & Accountability
Smruti Patel discusses successful platform adoption. She explores topics including failed platform-building efforts, the three pillars of a successful platform, and more.
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Unpacking How Ads Ranking Works @Pinterest
Aayush Mudgal discusses social media advertising, unpacking how Pinterest harnesses the power of Deep Learning Models and big data to tailor relevant advertisements to the pinners.
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LIquid: a Large-Scale Relational Graph Database
Scott Meyer discusses LIquid, the graph database built to host LinkedIn, serving a ~15Tb graph at ~2M QPS.
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Multiplying Engineering Productivity in Face of Constant Change
Shweta Saraf discusses harnessing the collective intelligence of a team to not only multiply productivity, but also cultivate organizational resilience in the face of unceasing changes.
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Building a Rack-Scale Computer with P4 at the Core: Challenges, Solutions, and Practices in Engineering Systems on Programmable Network Processors
Ryan Goodfellow discusses lessons learned and open source tooling developed while delivering a product on top of the Tofino 2 switch processor.
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Mission, Culture, and Values: Using Them to Guide Your Company through Good and Challenging Times
Heather McKelvey discusses LinkedIn’s guidelines used to weather events, such as economic downturns, and how to turn those periods into opportunities.
