ScaleConf Colombia 2018
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Nobody Knows What Time It Is | Vaidehi Joshi | 35m |
Starts with sundials, hourglasses and atomic cesium seconds, then shows why clocks drift and NTP fails in distributed systems using a concrete ticket‑booking… | ||
| An Uncoordinated Approach To Scaling (Almost) Infinitely | Andrew Turley | 32m |
Argues that systems scale near linearly by avoiding cross-node coordination: partition state into entities that fit on one machine, process incoming messages… | ||
| Learning AI with Van Gogh, Botero and Cruz‑Diez | Raul Pino | 37m |
Shows how neural networks can be applied to visual art by using the paper "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style" as a practical starting point; covers… | ||
| Building an HPC infrastructure at a Liberal Arts College | Asya Shklyar | 35m |
Design and prototype for an HPC cluster at Pomona College targets summer 2018 student research and a 2020 distributed grid; hardware is ordered but not yet… | ||
| Don't Get Distracted | Caleb Thompson | 29m |
Builds a WiFi geolocation app for a DoD contractor that triangulates phone signal sources using a convolution of R² error and Gaussian estimation, speeds a… | ||
| CD in CloudFront with CircleCI and Workflows | Maria Camila Gomez Rpo | 18m |
Deploying a front-end to AWS CloudFront using CircleCI and CircleCI Workflows. Covers the problems of tedious, error-prone deployment steps and shares… | ||
| Attacking Yourself Is Healthy | Julián Forero | 16m |
The talk explains practical security testing for web applications using simple tools: browser developer/debugging tools, TLS configuration checks, and correct… | ||
| Little Engineers (FMO) | Catalina Restrepo | 17m |
A girls-only school team from Fundación Marina dOr builds and iterates competition robots, moving from last year’s Saturn to the current line-following robot… | ||
| Reactive Microservices | Didier Tabares | 30m |
Explains how to make microservices highly responsive and resilient by applying reactive principles and patterns. Covers using reactive approaches to improve… | ||
| Patterns for building Highly Available Cluster Schedulers | Diptanu Gon Choudhury | 34m |
Analyzes concrete scheduler designs and failure modes, comparing event-driven vs level-triggered reconciliation and showing that level loops (example: 300 ms)… | ||
| Large-Scale Matrix Operations | Elizabeth Ramírez | 29m |
Covers numerical methods and data representations for large-scale matrix and tensor computations used in scientific computing and machine learning, including… | ||
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Disk IO | Alex Petrov | 34m |
Compares concrete trade-offs between LSM trees and B‑trees, explains why Cassandra and RocksDB use SSTables and how compaction works, measures which patterns… | ||
| Message | Alvaro Videla | 01m |
Expresses gratitude for a Spanish-language conference that demonstrates Latin American tech activity, challenges the myth that nothing happens in South… | ||
| Metaphors We Compute By | Alvaro Videla | 44m |
Looks at how metaphors shape thinking and decisions in software engineering, arguing that words and conceptual metaphors influence code quality, algorithm… | ||
| Zero Downtime Migrations at Scale | Aysylu Greenberg | 31m |
Zero downtime migration migrates Drive backups from legacy storage into Spanner at global scale with no visible user impact by combining dual-writes to old and… | ||
| Modern Security with Microservices and the Cloud | Seth Vargo | 31m |
Vault demos HashiCorp Vault running in dev mode, shows KV encrypted storage with TLS and on-disk blobs, the transit encryption API that returns ciphertext for… | ||
| The Overnight Failure | Sebastian Sogamoso | 28m |
A recounting of a real production incident where a billing system charged users thousands of times too much; it explains the root cause, immediate impact, and… | ||
| An Introduction to Smart Contracts | Miguel Palhas | 24m |
Overview of Ethereum smart contracts with a concrete Solidity bank example that stores balances, uses the payable keyword to accept funds, and exposes a… | ||
| Kubernetes: An Intro to the Magic of Containers Orchestration | Catherin Cruz | 47m |
An introduction to Kubernetes that explains how container orchestration works by describing Kubernetes components, deployment mechanisms, and recommended best… | ||
| Functional Programming & NoSQL Design | David Greenberg | 29m |
Built a distributed job scheduler called Cook that runs on clusters with tens of thousands of CPUs using immutable data and structural sharing; immutability… | ||
| The Math Behind Distributed Systems | Veronica Lopez | 34m |
Claim: representing a distributed system as a topological object lets engineers convert its connectivity into algebraic equations and prove invariants… | ||
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