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Coding in Style: How to Wield Scala in the Trenches
Josh Suereth discusses Scala: expressions, abstracting behaviors, FP & OOP, Futures & Promises, libraries with implicit classes and value classes, tracking lexical state with implicit values.
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Application Security What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Joe Kuemerle discusses some of the top threats that can break an app along with techniques to improve the design of an application to minimize vulnerabilities and mitigate what cannot be removed.
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JS Optimization Techniques
Guillaume Lathoud suggests expanding JavaScript with mutual tail-call optimization, map/filter/reduce and math computations to obtain faster code.
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Order Notation in Practice
Roger Orr solves a problem with different levels of complexity trying to answer what the complexity notation actually means and why it is important in practice.
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Going Native with Apache Cassandra
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by DataStax, Johnny Miller introduces the Cassandra native protocol, native drivers and CQL, explaining how to query Cassandra without Trift or RPC.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Crypto Again
Graham Steel discusses several cryptographic standards and examines the key management and cryptographic primitives offered by some of most widely encountered crypto APIs.
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Reflections on Mistrusting Trust: How Policy & Technical People Use the T-word in Opposite Senses
Caspar Bowden discusses about duplicity, the impact of Snowden's revelations on the society and what can be done about trust today.
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Building Resilience: How Outages Shaped Etsy's Systems
Avleen Vig presents some of the most unexpected, confusing, hilarious and face-palming events during Etsy's outages to show what can be learnt from their problems to build more resilient systems.
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The Haxl Project at Facebook
Simon Marlow describes a concurrency-based system built with Haskell that allows front-end programmers to write business logic to access all the back-end services in a concise and consistent way.
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Applied API Design
Jon Skeet provides practical advice on designing APIs using immutability, separation of concerns and other principles, resulting in elegant and reusable code.
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JIT Compilation Techniques
Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert introduces adaptive compilation strategies aiming to fulfill the seemingly conflicting goals of producing more optimal machine code while reducing compilation time.
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Node.JS: The Good Parts? A Skeptic’s View
Chris Richardson discusses creating Node.JS polyglot applications starting from combining an event-driven programming model with a prototype-based, weakly typed, dynamic language.