November 23, 2019

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So we hear you like papers

So we hear you like papers

Surprisingly enough, academic papers can be interesting and very relevant to the work we do in industry as practitioners. Ines Sombra and Caitie McCaffrey demonstrate how academic papers can radically change your perspective and introduce you to new ideas, offering a tour of papers that have reshaped the way they think about building large-scale distributed systems.

Talk Title So we hear you like papers
Speakers Ines Sombra (Fastly), Caitie McCaffrey (Twitter)
Conference Velocity
Conf Tag Build resilient systems at scale
Location Santa Clara, California
Date June 21-23, 2016
URL Talk Page
Slides
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Surprisingly enough, academic papers can be interesting and very relevant to the work we do in industry as practitioners. To give just one example, distributed systems has been an active area of research since the 1980s, and many of the problems we face today in our industry have already had solutions proposed and have inspired new research. Ines Sombra and Caitie McCaffrey demonstrate how academic papers can radically change your perspective and introduce you to new ideas, offering a tour of papers that have reshaped the way they think about building large-scale distributed systems.

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