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Architecting Cross-Platform Mobile Frameworks
Spencer Chan overviews Quora's architecture that allows them to share the majority of their application code across their Android, iOS and web apps, discussing challenges and benefits.
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Safe Systems Programming in C# and .NET
Joe Duffy shares some of his key experiences from building an entire operating system in a C# dialect and dealing with errors and concurrency robustly, focusing on open source C# and .NET.
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Is Mesos DC/OS a Better Way to Run Docker on AWS?
Chien Huey evaluates Marathon running on DC/OS as a replacement for Elastic Beanstalk and/or ECS in terms of functionality, ease of use as well as cost.
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DevOps'n the Operating System
John Willis takes a look at the history of how Devops principles and operating systems have converged, and demos how containers, unikernels and Devops can work in the future.
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Modern iOS Application Security
Dan Guido talks about the current state of iOS attacks, reviews available security APIs, why they are not good enough, and the design of the Mobile Application Security Toolkit to address risks.
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Securing Software by Construction
Jean Yang discusses research ideas to create secure software, what prevents them from becoming commercial solutions, and how the Cybersecurity Factory accelerator bridges the research/industry gap.
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React Native: A Better Way To Do Mobile
Brent Vatne introduces React Native, a framework for building native user interfaces for mobile devices.
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The World of Swift 3
Daniel Steinberg takes a look at what idiomatic Swift will look like when Swift 3 is released and discusses the reasoning behind some of the choices.
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Image Processing for iOS
Simon Gladman overviews some of the image processing techniques available to iOS developers and three frameworks offered by Apple: Core Image, Accelerate/vImage and Metal.
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Netflix Keystone - How We Built a 700B/day Stream Processing Cloud Platform in a Year
Peter Bakas presents in detail how Netflix has used Kafka, Samza, Docker, and Linux to implement a multi-tenant pipeline processing 700B events/day in the Amazon AWS cloud.
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Open Source Swift Under the Hood
Alex Blewitt talks about Swift and looks at the open source project, how applications and libraries can be built, the differences between the different builds and how Swift works under the hood.
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Data Structures in and on IPFS
Juan Batiz-Benet makes a short intro of IPFS (the InterPlanetary File System) and discusses the IPLD data model and example data structures (unixfs, keychain, post).