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Scaling Foursquare: From Check-ins to Recommendations

Jon Hoffman discusses the general architecture, storage systems and development practices created to handle the ever increasing volume and complexity at Foursquare.

Jon Hoffman
on Oct 26, 2014

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Scaling Chartbeat from 8 Million Open Browsers to Realtime Analytics and Optimization

Wesley Chow presents Chartbeat's real-time analytics platform and how able to handle the requests in a cost efficient manner using a custom written analytics engine in C and Lua.

Wesley Chow
on Oct 26, 2014

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Introduction to Development on iOS Devices

Muljadi Budiman presents the prerequisites and differences of iOS development, creating a small demo app to show how one starts developing on iOS.

Muljadi Budiman
on Oct 25, 2014

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57:25
Humble Programmers’ Reflections by Example on Unit Tests, TDD and BDD

Bruce Meacham discusses using user stories and business requirements for writing good tests that lead to good code, with examples in C#/SpecFlow and JavaScript/Cucumber.

Bruce Meacham
on Oct 25, 2014

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45:30
Unit Testing Beyond Mock Objects

Sven Rosvall discusses the new generation of mocking frameworks useful for mocking out static methods, creating objects of classes without public constructors, and others.

Sven Rosvall
on Oct 24, 2014

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Mens Sana in Corpore Sano (A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body)

Phil Nash presents how NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis), its relationship with to sitting, standing and walking, and the chemistry behind it helps being fit for long schedules.

Phil Nash
on Oct 23, 2014

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01:36:38
Comfortable Concurrency

Dominic Robinson reflects on several concurrency models, trying to assess which is more pleasant to work with.

Dominic Robinson
on Oct 23, 2014

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01:35:36
The Spoofax Language Workbench in Industry

Eelco Visser, Vlad Vergu demonstrate how Spoofax simplifies the process of specifying syntax using SDF3, name analysis using NaBL and type analysis using TS, code generation in Stratego.

Eelco Visser Vlad Vergu
on Oct 23, 2014

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01:08:19
Python: Why Are the Big Dealers Making Big Bets?

The authors demonstrate the design and use of an environment for quantitative researchers building a market risk simulation first as a basic system and then adding a hypothetical systemic shock.

Mario Morales Andy Fundinger
on Oct 22, 2014

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Have You Seen Spring Lately?

David Turanski makes a tour of the latest Spring platform including Spring.IO, Spring Boot, Websocket support, Spring HATEOAS, and others.

David Turanski
on Oct 19, 2014

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Software Psychology: The Art of Listening to Code

Bjorn Freeman-Benson suggests “listening” to the code, refactoring it based on various factors such as the defect rate or underperforming services, providing strategies and tools.

Bjorn Freeman-Benson
on Oct 18, 2014

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Test-Driven JavaScript with Jasmine

Brad Urani presents the principles of writing unit tests using Jasmine, discussing spies, DI and mocking as strategies for isolating functionality for both synchronous and asynchronous JavaScript.

Brad Urani
on Oct 18, 2014

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