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Tech Talk: Incident Response with Emil Stolarsky

January 05, 2018 51:26 43.2 MB Downloads: 0

Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. As a system becomes more complex, the chance of failure increases. At a large enough scale, failures are inevitable. Incident response is the practice of preparing for and effectively recovering from these failures. An engineering team can use checklists and runbooks to minimize failures. They can put a plan in place for responding to failures. And they can use the process of post mortems to reflect on a failure and take full advantage of the lessons of that failure. Emil Stolarsky is a production engineer at Shopify where his role shares many similarities with that of Google's site reliability engineers. In this episode, Emil argues that the academic study of emergency management and industries such as aerospace and transportation have a lot to teach software engineers about responding to production problems.   In this interview Emil argues that we need to move beyond tribal knowledge and incorporate practices such as an incident command system and rigorous use of checklists. Emil suggests that we need to move beyond a mindset of "move fast and break things" and toward a place of more deliberate preparation.

Tech Talk: Scala Native with Denys Shabalin

January 01, 2018 48:17 40.57 MB Downloads: 0

Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. Scala is a functional and object oriented programming language built on the JVM. Scala Native takes this language, loved by many, and brings it to bare metal. Scala Native is an optimizing ahead-of-time compiler and lightweight managed runtime designed specifically for Scala. Denys Shabalin is a Research Assistant at the EPFL and the primary creator of Scala Native. In this episode, I interview Denys about the motivations behind the Scala Native project, how it was implemented and future directions. He also briefly touches on how Scala Native made cold compilation times of Scala code twice as fast. If you are interested in functional programming, compiler design, or want to learn some interesting tidbits about garbage collector design and trade offs you will like this episode.   Show Notes Scala Native Scala Goes Native Talk Bootstrapping the Web with Scala Native