We've been talking about Infrastructure providers for quite a bit
already. OpenStack itself started as such an IaaS and then it quickly
became a cloud provide. But what does that mean? What is a cloud
provider... Read More

Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham to help us think about this problem. In this metaphor, doing things the quick and dirty way sets us up with a technical debt, which is similar to a... Read More

Being a media optimisation company we have to extract data from hundreds of different data sources. We will show how we conformed the extraction process that has to deal with a vast amount of uncertainty and... Read More

The term "Black Swan" was coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2007 and it represents those rare events that are high-profile, hard to predict and have disproportionate effect on history, as well as our blindness to... Read More

SimilarWeb provides daily traffic estimation for over 60M domains and 2M Apps in more than 200 different countries. Preserving high accuracy and consistency with a statistical estimator in a big data dynamic... Read More

One of the most exciting areas in Big Data is the development of new predictive applications; apps used to drive product recommendations, predict machine failures, forecast airfare, social match-make, identify... Read More

When developing web apps, one can open FireBug and make changes to texts and images on the spot, immediately seeing the effect. When developing mobile applications, each change requires code modification, recompile... Read More

For nearly 20 years, PostgreSQL has had a reputation as a rock-solid, open-source, relational database. Many companies around the world have turned to it when they want to store and retrieve data using the... Read More

A review of the CAP Theorem and the difficulties of resolving conflicts in highly distributed and highly available systems. This talk covers the issues and various theories on how to discover and resolve conflicts... Read More

Vertica is giving Convertro (AOL)  the ability to ingest huge amount of data
while running ad hoc queries,reports and dashboards at the same time .
I will explain what is a column store database, how it works,... Read More

The ELK Stack -- Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana -- has become one of the most widely-used open-source log analytics platforms in the world, but it is challenging to set it up in a way that is scalable, highly... Read More

It's year 2015 and continuous delivery is common knowledge with every other software project or organisation running some kind of a CI/CD pipeline (or at least looking in that direction).
Automated build, test... Read More

In this workshop we will walk through the process of how Wix has gone from a "traditional" company working with a waterfall process to a full continuous delivery shop making close to 100 production changes every... Read More