Show HN: Tech Talks at Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google Ever wonder how large scale services at built at large tech companies? I've collected tech talks given by Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google to share! Facebook: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqXBqaWzmb_eP2NRpwar0qtJcyrWlgLr2 - Facebook: Memcache at Scale, Whatsapp Erlang, Scaling Instagram, RocksDB, Haskell Spam fighting Amazon: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqXBqaWzmb_fRGEAYEbXpQnHrqq5q_BkA - Amazon: S3 Eleven Nines Durability, DynamoDB, Lambda, EBS under the hood, Alexa NLP, Amazon Go Netflix: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqXBqaWzmb_c0d3jHhxk8cF0ldP6EGfvL - Netflix: Chaos Engineering, Regional Failover, Machine Learning and Recommender Systems, Studio Engineering Google: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqXBqaWzmb_c54Ff9-1kz-PJRcmtBuutH - Google: Borg, Spanner, MapReduce, GFS, Google AI, Ads Marketplaces, Robotics, SREs, Deep Learning August 13, 2021 at 10:50AM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
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