Agenda
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6:00 Networking | Food | Drink
6:30 Speakers
Talk 1: Better x86 Assembly Generation from Go (Michael McLoughlin, Uber)
Talk 2: Practical Tips for Database Testing (Yasser Abdolmaleki, Walmart)

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Talk 1: Better x86 Assembly Generation from Go

In the Go standard library & beyond, assembly language is used to provide access to architecture & OS-specific features, to accelerate hot loops in scientific code, & provide high-performance cryptographic routines. For these applications correctness is paramount, yet assembly functions can be painstaking to write & nearly impossible to review.

In this talk, Michael McLoughlin from Uber will demonstrate how to leverage code generation tools to make high-performance Go assembly functions safe & easy to write & maintain.

About the Speaker
Michael McLoughlin is a performance-obsessed Gopher currently making self-driving car software faster at Uber Advanced Technologies Group, formerly implementing mathematical algorithms on high performance computers.

Talk 2: Practical Tips for Database Testing

Almost every application needs to connect with a database & yet database testing remains a bit of a struggle for many teams. Some do it incorrectly & others avoid it.

Yasser Abdolmaleki from Walmart eCommerce's Search & Big Data team will go through a set of simple & practical steps you can take to make sure your database interactions will be performant, resilient, & easily reconfigurable. He's even go so far as to cover tips on how to protect against DB config & version changes & making DB changes code-based so that you can construct the DB many times.

About the Speaker
Yasser Abdolmaleki is an Engineer at Walmart eCommerce currently focusing on Search & Big Data. Prior to this role, he was part of the Walmart's edge computing team overseeing the CDN, DNS, load balancing & proxying aspects of all of Walmart's web properties.