Notes I took at QCon London 2020 — three days of talks on distributed systems, ML, engineering culture, and more. Raw, unedited, captured live.
Day 1
- Opening notes
- IoT with less internet
- Microservice decomposition patterns
- Streaming millions of likes per second
- Databases and stream processing
- From batch to streaming to both
- Kafka as a distributed system
Day 2
- Day 2 notes
- Tech leadership through the Underground Railroad
- Evolution of financial exchange architectures
- How we were astronauts and NoWare mission control
- BERT for sentiment analysis
- The ideal number of microservices is 489
- The Tesla virtual power plant
- Speeding up ML development with MLflow