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"The Go language features, goals, and use cases have forced us to rethink the entire garbage collection stack and have led us to a surprising place. The journey has been exhilarating. This talk describes our journey. It is a journey motivated by open source and Google's production demands. Included are side hikes into dead end box canyons where numbers guided us home. This talk will provide insight into the how and the why of our journey, where we are in 2018, and Go's preparation for the next part of the journey."

"The microservices architectural style simplifies implementing individual services. However, connecting, monitoring and securing hundreds or even thousands of microservices is not simple.A service mesh provides a transparent and language-independent way to flexibly and easily automate networking, security, and observation functions. In essence, it decouples development and operations for services.The Istio service mesh is split into 1) a data plane built from Envoy proxies that intercepts traffic and controls communication between services, and 2) a control plane that supports services at runtime by providing policy enforcement, telemetry collection, and certificate rotation.The near-term goal is to launch Istio to 1.0, when the key features will all be in beta (including support for Hybrid environments)The long-term vision is to make Istio ambient."

"Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents. Terrier implements state-of-the-art indexing and retrieval functionalities, and provides an ideal platform for the rapid development and evaluation of large-scale retrieval applications."