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Hunting Bugs with AFL Fuzzing

Fuzzing is an automatic software testing technique especially successful when applied to software that parses inputs such as JSON or XML requests or large packages of software, such as kernels. Fuzzing has already found big CVEs in common software such as OpenSSL, tcpdump, ext4, bash... In this talk we will explain what fuzzing consists of and how American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) works, which is one of the most used fuzzers.

The Journey of Scaling a Critical Backend Context Store

This talk covers the journey Atlassian made with its “tenant context service”, which is responsible for serving things like database creds, hostname resolution and various other pieces of metadata needed for all Jira / Confluence cloud requests. We’ll start with the early designs, and what triggers made us evolve the design to the point we can know serve 4 billion requests per day with six 9s of reliability and p99 < 1ms.

Unlock Multilingual Search Using Elasticsearch

Is it possible, to create a search system on top of 50 languages when you can speak only 1-2 languages. I will share my experience and knowledge on how I used Elasticsearch to create multilingual search engine.

Hands-on Intro to gRPC and its Scaling Pitfalls

We’ll spec out a basic hello service and run a server and client for it. We’ll demonstrate an exercise in backwards compatibility. And then we’ll dive deep into the scaling gotchas for gRPC.

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Data Stream Processing for Beginners with Apache Kafka and Change Data Capture

Build real-time data streaming micro services with Apache Kafka, Kstreams and Debezium. Capture modification in MySQL records and stream the change events real time with Kafka and Debezium, consume and transform the change events data with Kstreams application.

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Introduction to Spring Cloud Kubernetes

We will explore how Spring Cloud Kubernetes provides seamless integration to consume Kubernetes native services like service discovery and configuration.