Presentations

• Posted by William E. Byrd  on  Oct 31, 2012
  Relational Programming in miniKanren

  Daniel P. Friedman and William E. Byrd demonstrate miniKanren, a simplified version of KANREN - a declarative logic programming system with relations embedded in a pure functional subset of Scheme.

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  on  Oct 31, 2012

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• Posted by Leonard Richardson  on  Oct 30, 2012
  How to Follow Instructions

  Leonard Richardson discusses REST and hypermedia links and forms – seen as instructions from the server to the client. Client using instructions can be reused and support complex behavior.

  Leonard Richardson

  on  Oct 30, 2012

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• Posted by Andy Gross  on  Oct 29, 2012
  Building Cloud Services with Riak

  Andy Gross reports on how Basho used Riak and Erlang to build their cloud storage service.

  Andy Gross

  on  Oct 29, 2012

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• Posted by Michael Stonebraker  on  Oct 26, 2012
  Not Your Father’s Transaction Processing

  Michael Stonebraker compares how RDBMS, NoSQL and NewSQL support today’s big data transaction processing needs. He also introduces VoltDB, an in-memory NewSQL database.

  Michael Stonebraker

  on  Oct 26, 2012

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• Posted by Matthew Flatt  on  Oct 26, 2012
  The Racket Way

  Matthew Flatt explains the Racket – a Lisp dialect – way through examples: everything is a program, concepts are language constructs, the language is extensible, and everything composes.

  Matthew Flatt

  on  Oct 26, 2012

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• Posted by Richard Astbury  on  Oct 25, 2012
  Package Management for Windows Azure

  Richard Astbury demoes an Azure package management system useful for porting applications to Microsoft’s PaaS.

  Richard Astbury

  on  Oct 25, 2012

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• Posted by Nathan Marz  on  Oct 25, 2012
  Runaway Complexity in Big Data, and a Plan to Stop It

  Nathan Marz outlines several sources of complexity introduced in data systems - Lack of human fault-tolerance, Conflation of data and queries, Schemas done wrong - and what can be done to avoid them.

  Nathan Marz

  on  Oct 25, 2012

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• Posted by Mike Williams  on  Oct 24, 2012
  The Ideal Programmer - Why They Don't Exist and How to Manage Without Them?

  Mike Williams outlines some of the main characteristics that make developers and teams perform better than the average.

  Mike Williams

  on  Oct 24, 2012

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• Posted by Brian Foote  on  Oct 24, 2012
  Seventeen Secrets of the Great Legacy Makeover Masters

  Brian Foote shares 17 tips that help dealing with muddy legacy code: Testing, Divide & Conquer, Neoteny, Gentrification, Demolition, Quarantine, Refactoring, Craft, etc.

  Brian Foote

  on  Oct 24, 2012

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• Posted by Raffi Krikorian  on  Oct 23, 2012
  Real-Time Delivery Architecture at Twitter

  Raffi Krikorian details Twitter’s timeline architecture, its “write path” and “read path”, making it possible to deliver 300k tweets/sec.

  Raffi Krikorian

  on  Oct 23, 2012

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• Posted by Elan Lennard  on  Oct 23, 2012
  Going Native: Decisions for Mobile

  Elan Lennard discusses porting a desktop app to a mobile device: choosing the functionality that makes sense, make it look great, and deciding between native and HTML5.

  Elan Lennard

  on  Oct 23, 2012

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• Posted by Brendan Eich  on  Oct 19, 2012
  The State of JavaScript

  Brendan Eich reviews the history of JavaScript, then introduces and demonstrates some of the new features coming in ES6.

  Brendan Eich

  on  Oct 19, 2012

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