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A Brief History of the Future of the API
Mark Rendle talks about the various technologies and standards from across the years, the pros and cons of each, and which solutions are appropriate for which problems.
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Make It Safe! Psychological Safety for You and Your Teams
Steven Limmer talks about the initial management of software and how it evolved to Agile, and then discusses the common issues with “Agile”, and how this has led to failure and mistrust.
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Agile 18 Years Later
Jason Little explores patterns of the last 18 years using data from all 13 Version One State of Agile surveys and opinionates that Agile has evolved as any other set of ideas.
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It Really Is a Series of Tubes
Molly Wright Steenson goes in-depth into one of the largest information networks of its day, the pneumatic tubes, and provides a historical comparison to the development of modern digital networks.
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Leading in an Agile World
Damien O’Connor and Sheetal Thaker explore the characteristics of leaders over the last six decades, looking at how leadership has changed over time, and articulate where they think it is headed.
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KIT-BASHING THE BLORB - What Happens When All the Dead Come Back and They're Still Really Fun
Jason Scott discusses the status and the future of the Internet Archive.
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Keep Betting on JavaScript
Kyle Simpson takes a look at JavaScript’s history, asking where is it headed, and what are the implications?
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A Brief, Opinionated History of the API
Joshua Bloch discusses the history of APIs and looks at a few prominent examples with an eye to distilling their essence.
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Our Concurrent Past; Our Distributed Future
Joe Duffy talks about the concurrency's explosion onto the mainstream over the past 15 years and attempts to predict what lies ahead for distributed programming, from now til 15 years into the future.
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SQL Server on Linux: Will it Perform or Not?
Slava Oks talks about SQL Server’s history, high-level architecture and dives into core of I/O Manager, Memory Manager, and Scheduler. Topics include lessons learned and experiences behind the scenes.
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A Brief History of Unicode
Alex Blewitt discusses the origins of Unicode, why UTF8 is important, how character sets have evolved over time and the role Unicode has had in the evolution of many languages.
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The History and Future of Wearable Computing and Virtual Experience
Amber Case talks about the road from VR to AR, the history and future of wearables, human augmentation, infrastructure, machine vision, computer backpacks, heads up displays, reality editing, etc.