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Got NIM?

This article will introduce Nim, a programming language that is said to be more elegant than Python and efficient like C. It is also easily compiled to JavaScript and utilizes user-friendly Tracebacks. Nim is one of the most under-appreciated languages available, and it may be just right for you.

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Architecture & Design

Thomas Wuerthinger on GraalVM and Optimizing Java with Ahead-of-Time Compilation

On this podcast, we're talking to Thomas Wuerthinger, a senior research director at Oracle Labs, leading programming language implementation teams for Java, JavaScript, Ruby, and R. He is the architect of the Graal compiler and the Truffle self-optimizing runtime.

Panel: First Steps with Machine Learning

The panelists discuss the first principles to follow when adding ML to a system.

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Culture & Methods

Agile around the World

David Spinks and Glaudia Califano share case studies and observations of Agile adoption in various countries, discussing how different cultures could learn from each other.

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DevOps

Automatic Clustering at Snowflake

Prasanna Rajaperumal presents Snowflake’s clustering capabilities, including their algorithm for incremental maintenance of approximate clustering of partitioned tables, as well as their infrastructure to perform such maintenance automatically. He also covers some real-world problems they run into and their solutions.