The speakers discuss Netflix’s architecture for surviving extreme traffic spikes. They explain the mechanics of prioritized ...

This library limits itself to config files. If you want to load config from a database or something, you would need to write some custom code. The library has nice support for merging configurations ...

In addition to the standard syntax, such as "cd /someDir/xyz" etc, the CFT shell commands also support using the result from some CFT function. The function Sys.lastResult returns the result from the ...

We present a methodology for modelling pandemics, the development of which was motivated by the current COVID19 outbreak. The key point of our approach is the introduction of geography and travel ...

Plastic pollution is a fast-rising environmental catastrophe. Microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) are ubiquitous components of most aquatic environments, and their burgeoning prevalence is ...

Update: We have published a paper on this discussion, including updates from interviews we conducted, at ICSE-SEIP 2020. Having spent over a decade researching configurable systems and software ...