Interesting StrangeLoop 2018 talks

Software Performance - A Shape Not a Number, by Kay Ousterhout

tl;dr: Percentiles are not enough, you need histograms, e.g.:

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Really neat talk about finding performance issues in really complicated systems, like the many-service worlds that many companies have now.

Moving from 1 to N regions - an open retrospective by Andrew Bloomgarden

tl;dr: How to introduce new tooling carefully, and what can go wrong

This sounds like things I’ve experienced personally, except done with more resources.

Isolation without Containers by Tyler McMullen

tl;dr: WebAssembly!

builds on mozilla’s craneshift jit compiler, except it’s not a jit.

also, fastly compiles vcl (and maybe soon webassembly) from customers to native code and runs it on their cdn (and every request?!)

For AI, By AI - Freedom & Evolution of the AlgoPoetic Avant-Garde by Connor Wals

tl;dr: Weird, charming, and entertaining. And weird.

A nice example of making your talk a story.

and more:

• Algorithms for DNA Data Storage (Ruthie Nachmany)
• ‘Scalable Anomaly Detection (with Zero Machine Learning)’ by Arthur Gonigberg-6UwcqiNsZ8U.mp4