Podcasts

John Langford on Vowpal Wabbit, Used by MSN, and Machine Learning in Industry

Machine learning research scientist John Langford talks to QCon chair Wesley Reisz about his ML system Vowpal Wabbit used for news personalisation on MSN. They also discuss how to get started in the field and its shift from academic research to industry use.

Caitie McCaffrey on Engineering Effectiveness and Verifying Distributed Systems

Caitie McCaffrey talks about engineering effectiveness, approaching diversity, and verification of distributed systems at QCon New York 2016.

Courtney Hemphill on VR, Augmented Reality, and the Importance of Animation in UX

In this week's podcast, Barry Bird talks to Courtney Hemphill, a partner and tech lead at Carbon Five. With over ten years of experience in software development, Hemphill has done full stack development for both startup and enterprise companies. Hemphill's presentation at QCon New York was entitled Algorithms for Animation.

James Shore, Llewellyn Falco, and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock on TDD and Architecture

In this week's podcast Richard Seroter talks to James Shore, Llewellyn Falco, and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock on TDD and Incremental Architecture.

Uber's Chief Systems Architect on their Architecture and Rapid Growth

In this week's podcast QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Matt Ranney, who is the Chief Systems Architect at Uber, where he's helping build and scale everything he can. Previously, Matt was a founder and CTO of Voxer, probably the largest and busiest deployment of Node.js.