2017-05-18

Devoxx US 2017, Knowledge is Power: Getting out of trouble by understanding Git by Steve Smith

My notes on Devoxx US 2017, Knowledge is Power: Getting out of trouble by understanding Git by Steve Smith




"If that doesn't fix it, git.txt contains the phone number of a friend of mine who understands git. Just wait through a few minutes of 'It's really pretty simple, just think of branches as...' and eventually you'll learn the commands that will fix everything."

GOTO 2016 - Microservices at Netflix Scale: Principles, Tradeoffs & Lessons Learned - R. Meshenberg

My notes on GOTO 2016 - Microservices at Netflix Scale: Principles, Tradeoffs & Lessons Learned - R. Meshenberg



They have a division making a layer of tools for other teams to build their stuff on top of it.

Exceptions for statelessness are persistence (of course) but also caching.

Destructive testing - Chaos monkey -> simian army - in production, all the time. (During office hours)

Their separation of concerns looks like a grid, not like a vertical or horizontal table.

They have open sourced many of their tools, we can find them at netflix.github.com