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Making Machines Talk in IoT Paradigm
Mehrdad Negahban and Kevin Kostiner discuss an architecture for M2M communication using cloud to switch, route and enable meaningful conversation among devices based on machine learning technology.
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Microservices and Mobile
Oleksii Fedorov advises on creating mobile applications, what practices to use and what to avoid.
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GraphQL for All? A Few Things to Think about before Blindly Dumping REST for GraphQL
Arnaud Lauret discusses REST vs. GraphQL, comparing their strengths and weaknesses, suggesting evaluating both before making a decision.
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Building Secure Player Experiences at Riot Games
David Rook talks about the Riot Games Application Security program. He focusses on the tech and social aspects of the program and why he feels both are important when it comes to writing secure code.
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Blockchain: The Oracle Problems
Paul Sztorc talks about why the oracle problem is so hard (the historical evolution of failures, why they fail), and the basics of blockchain ("blockchain as immortal software", ledger "rents").
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Case Study: Alternate Blockchains
Jeremy Rand talks about Namecoin and Monero, the advantages to alternate blockchains, and risks of using chains that are not as secured or are merge mined.
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Practical Blockchains: Building on Bitcoin
Peter Todd answers the questions: why use Bitcoin over other blockchains, what is safe, future proof ways to peg data to Bitcoin's blockchain and what is Bitcoin script, and how it can be used.
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The Journey to a Customer Experience Driven Enterprise
Laura Heritage discusses key aspects - Cloud services and API-led integrations - essential to having success in building a customer experience driven enterprise.
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Serverless - Power to the Black Box!
Michael Bruns shows for which purposes serverless is a good fit, how it actually works and in which cases it is better to avoid it.
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Reaching Agreement: eSignature API strategies
Larry Kluger discusses strategies for designing and using APIs to deal with electronic signatures.
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IoT, DDoS, and the DNS: Development Models for a Hostile Internet
Chris Baker overviews the IoT DDoS landscape, providing both a comprehensive mental model for IoT botnets, as well as sharing some insight into recent adaptations to network threat models.
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Practical Cryptography & Blockchain Panel
The panel discusses the most important trends involving the blockchain today and fields questions from the audience. Topics covered: smart contracts, oracles, sidechains, and blockchains.