ScaleConf 2019
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Reaching Millions of Girls with Girl Effect | Jamie Hewland, Codie Roelf | 37m |
How do you reach 25 million girls globally who don’t share a common language or background? To scale Girl Effect’s platform and achieve this, we tailored many… | ||
| Scaling Silos: Distributing Knowledge | Grace Chang | 01h 00m |
A developer runs a 30-day code fast by blocking stackoverflow via /etc/hosts, keeps a daily journal, and uses Google, Web Archive, docs, GitHub issues and… | ||
| Scale Fail Scale: A start-up's story of surviving death | Dale Humby | 52m |
A start-up builds rugged ePaper POS terminals, wins a 2,000-unit pre-order and ships just over 1,000 units, then watches 80% of transaction volume vanish when… | ||
| Mobile connectivity at scale, on Prepaid | Kees Snijders, Wayne Pringle-Wood | 42m |
Company runs prepaid mobile connectivity across nine African countries with 200,000 SIM cards under management, about 20,000 billing events per day, 5,000… | ||
| Natural Language Understanding at Scale | Bernardt Duvenhage | 38m |
A custom NLU service is built and deployed: Python, PyTorch and C++ back ends, containerised with OpenAPI/Connexion, gunicorn and nginx, and client SDKs… | ||
| Web Application Security: Winning When The Odds Are Against You | Ben Dechrai | 55m |
Live demos run on PHP apps inside Vagrant VMs show concrete failures and fixes: a registration form allows created admin via SQL injection by inserting quote… | ||
| Scaling live transactional data at the Tour de France | Tim Wade | 49m |
Dimension Data captures per-second GPS from 192 riders over a 900MHz mesh that piggybacks TV microwave links, demuxes at the finish, and pushes raw feed to… | ||
| Debug like a pro on Kubernetes | Gianluca Arbezzano | 01h 00m |
Golang apps run as single binaries in tiny containers and are debugged with concrete tooling: Prometheus metrics + Telegraf collectors to InfluxDB… | ||
| Kick-Ass Tools and Processes for Scalable Data Science | Helge Reikerås | 34m |
Shows a working pipeline that runs Spark on Kubernetes (Spark 2.3/2.4) deployed to AWS EKS, using CloudFormation to create auto-scaling EC2 nodes and… | ||
| A Sky Full of Stars | Simon Ratcliffe | 48m |
Story of building MeerKAT and proving it works: a 64-antenna radio array with 64 antennas and 40 Gbit links from each feed into an underground, copper‑lined… | ||
| Programming for Accessibility | Rory Preddy | 41m |
Claims that accessibility boosts innovation and reaches far beyond small groups with concrete numbers: ~1 billion people with disabilities, 2.4 billion… | ||
| Tinkertoys, microservices, and feature management: How to build for the future | Heidi Waterhouse | 53m |
Argues that microservices plus feature flags require testing in production rather than full staging, with concrete practices: use canary/ring rollouts (turn on… | ||
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