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Video Streaming at Scale
Let's face it - we all want to be there when the action happens, not experience it after the fact. That's why live video streaming has become so popular. But what happens when you want to reach millions of people across the globe in real-time. At scale, there's a lot going on. In...
Machine-to-Machine Interfaces
We often think of client interfaces as a visual medium, but in our increasingly connected lives, our devices are becoming more and more integrated. In this talk we'll explore the ever-expanding world of machine-to-machine interfaces and present a real-world use-case for all the buzzwords,...
Building and Operating a Serverless Data Pipeline
At Intent our machine learning platform processes real-time and historical data to predict user intent on billions of page views a month. At the heart of this system is a serverless data pipeline that allows us to gather, process, store, and analyze data from disparate data sources....
The Not-So-Straightforward Road From Microservices to Serverless
For the last ten years or so, many companies have focused on migrating from larger, monolithic systems and applications towards a specific style of Service-Oriented Architecture called Microservices. The promise was that these smaller, loosely-coupled, and independently developed components would...
Beyond Entitlements for Cloud-Native
A Policy Engine is a tool that allows for checking user privileges as well as evaluate a responsibility matrix based on dynamic data for a given user. A Policy Engine is not only an Entitlement Management System but also provides for functional evaluation of conditions that result in...
Sink or Swim - Effective Collaboration between Eng & Product
Cross-functional teams are the norm in modern software development organizations. The prototypical leadership team consists of Engineering Lead, Product Manager, and (often) Design Lead. Being able to be an effective partner when working with Product Managers and Designers is a key skill for sr....
Interviews
Building and Operating a Serverless Data Pipeline
What is the focus of your work these days?
I'm the lead of the data platform team at Intent. Intent is a data science company that helps commerce sites maximize the value for each person who visits their site. Our main product is an ad network that runs on travel sites. On the data platform team we oversee our data pipeline, that collects data from ad servers and various...
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