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Write Your Lisp in Scala
Stefan Chis demos building a Lisp dialect in Scala, covering: parsing code, defining data types and functions, evaluating expressions, implementing higher order functions.
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Scalaz 'For the Rest of Us'
Adam Rosien introduces scalaz, how to use it to make code simpler and type safer, how it compensates for Scala issues, and how it encapsulates DI and data validation.
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The Tao, of the Joy, of Coding
Dick Wall makes connections between Lao-Tzu’ philosophical insights found within his writing, Tao Te Ching, and the art of software development.
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Life, The Universe, and Everything
Damian Conway explores quantum finite state automata, the power of Maxwell's information engine, the computational expressiveness of (un)natural languages, blending them all into a parallel system.
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Connecting Everything - APIs & PaaS
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by WSO2, Paul Fremantle explores open source approaches to APIs and PaaS, taking a look at organizations that have done this: how, why, and what the results are
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The Process, Technology & Practice of Continuous Delivery
Dave Farley introduces the ideas of Continuous Delivery as a practical everyday, holistic process, using some of the techniques and technologies from a real world project as an example.
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Bloomin' Marvellous
Adrian Colyer takes a look at the Bloom filter, a probabilistic data structure, revealing the many uses of hashing and exploring how this can be used for computing summary information over data sets.
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Principles of Reliable Communication & Shared State
Andy Piper describes some fundamentals of communicating reliably in an unreliable world and communication techniques used to build distributed data structures that can tolerate failures.
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The DevOps Maturity Curve - Where Are You on It?
Chris Rowett explores the key stages on the DevOps journey: Complete Agile Development, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Validation, and "Closed Loop".
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The Scientific Programmer
Eric Bouwers lures developers to the world of software engineering research, providing research techniques that can be used in the daily projects.
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Cloud, Distributed, Embedded: Erlang in the Heterogeneous Computing World
Omer Kilic provides an overview of heterogeneous computing discussing how Erlang can help with the orchestration of different processing platforms, introduces Erlang/ALE + updates on Erlang Embedded.
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Extreme Speedups and GPGPU: A Tale of Two Practical Uses of Reified Trees
Olivier Chafik discusses how to make a practical use of reified trees in Scala, with two applications: run-time (re)compilation for extreme speed, and conversion to another language (OpenCL).