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Vowpal Wabbit, A Machine Learning System
John Langford discusses how to use Vowpal Wabbit in and as a machine learning system including architecture, unique capabilities, and applications, applied to personalized news recommendation.
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The Slow Steady Industry Move Toward Tacit Programming
We're all aware that the industry is moving from Object-Orientation toward Functional Programming, but the move may be even deeper than that.
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Typed Services Using Finch
Tom Adams outlines the problems faced when building small services, and how using a good type system can help, introducing Finch and highlighting how it addresses these concerns.
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APIs in the Real World - Insights from a DB of 11,500 APIs
Adeel Ali presents insights from his database of 11,500 real world APIs.
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Distributed Consensus: Making the Impossible Possible
Heidi Howard explores how to construct resilient distributed systems on top of unreliable components. Howard discusses which algorithms are best suited to different situations.
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Distributed Systems in Practice, in Theory
Aysylu Greenberg discusses some of the new architectural patterns from systems she has worked on at Google and the related work that provides insights into the motivations behind them.
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Fault-Tolerant Sensor Nodes with Erlang/OTP and Arduino
Kenji Rikitake discusses using Erlang/OTP for IoT, covering communication protocols, design principles and overcoming hardware limitations for endpoint devices in fault-tolerant systems.
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Uber Trip Experiences: Unlocking Your Platform's Potential
Andrew Noonan walks through the evolution of the Uber Developer Platform, the launch of Trip Experiences, and the future of the Uber platform.
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Learnings from Implementing a Hypermedia Client
Uli Holtel discusses the principles of hypermedia APIs, how to decouple from media type formats, using profiles, 'fully dynamic' vs. 'tightly coupled' client, tools, code artifacts and examples.
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Building Modern UI for Eclipse RCP
The authors share their experience building the UI of an Eclipse product, introducing a new EMF-based widget toolkit providing native SWT controls, SVG, styling, declarative syntax and animation.
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Hypermedia Web API as a Network of Data
Todd Brackley discusses accessing the “network of data” through a RESTful hypermedia API, exposing it to developers, testers, analysts and clients.
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How to Create Genuine Value for Internal and External API Consumers
Steven Willmott looks at how APIs’ value helps genuine success for an API program and an organization's platform initiatives as a whole, including examples and takeaways.