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APIs, Spreadsheets & Drinking Fountains: Using Open Data in Real Life
Shelby Switzer discusses success stories and failures of using the public data provided by governments, along with techniques for making such data usable.
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Getting Uphill on a Candle: Crushed Spines, Detached Retinas and One Small Step
Brian Troutwine discusses aeronautics research attempting to convince listeners that moonshot projects should not be considered independently of their organizations and history.
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Beam aboard the Eclipse User Storage Service
Christopher Guindon and Denis Roy introduce Eclipse USS and its SDK, discussing plans for its future and showing how to get started using this service.
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Adventures in 3D with Eclipse ICE and JavaFX
Robert Smith and Tony McCrary discuss how the JavaFX 3D API works and lessons learned during the migration of an existing 3D tool to JavaFX 8's 3D API.
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The RESTed NARWHL: an Approach to Building Adaptable APIs
Rob Zazueta introduces RESTed NARWHL, a design framework for building RESTful APIs that adhere to current best practices while being able to rapidly adapt to change.
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Lean Misconceptions and the Return of the Reflective Practitioner
Tobbe Gyllebring attempts to dispel some of the prevalent misconceptions about Lean by bringing it back to its roots based on reflective practice and learning.
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React.js Reconciliation
Jim Sproch describes how reconciliation works within React, and how to use it to enhance both performance and user experience.
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Distributed Systems
Alvaro Videla reviews distributed systems: async/sync, message passing, shared memory, failure detectors, leader election, consensus and different kinds of replication, and recommends related books.
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Techniques for a Successful Agile Transformation
Steve McDonald and Mark Landeryou talk about the dangers of taking shortcuts when the going gets tough and the level of discipline required to get the most out of adopting Agile.
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Scala, ECS, and Docker: Delayed Execution @Coursera
Brennan Saeta talks about aspects of Coursera’s architecture that enable them to rapidly build sophisticated features for their learning platform, the use of containers and security-related issues.
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Using Pony for Fintech
Sylvan Clebsch talks about using Pony for fintech to build high-performance tools. Pony is a new actor-model statically typed language, compiled AOT, with a GC and a data-race free type system.
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Microsoft Cloud's Front Door: Building a Global API
Charles Lamanna talks about the scale and architecture of Microsoft’s Azure Management Gateway and how Azure API’s are built for high availability and for data sovereignty.