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Deepak Giridharagopal on Puppet, Immutable Deployments, Analyzing Systems with PuppetDB
Deepak Giridharagopal explains the config management and automation tool Puppet, the concept of Immutable Deployments, and how Puppet DB (written in Clojure) allows to monitor and query systems managed with Puppet. Also: why PuppetDB is written in Clojure.
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Software Engineer Panos Astithas of Mozilla on Debugging Tools and Open Source
JavaScript expert Panos Astithas discusses the latest trends in mobile app development. The tools that Panos employs in his work as Software Engineer at Mozilla help to keep their applications as bug-free and smooth running as possible. Effective debugging is all about having the best developer tools available.
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Adobe System's Narciso Jaramillo on Brackets and Web Development
In this exclusive interview with "NJ", app designer and engineer from Adobe Systems, at the QCon 2013 in San Francisco, NJ talks about the open source code editor known as "Brackets". The challenges around front-end development; JavaScript, HTML, CSS development. the open source project and the actual branded Adobe product called Adobe Edge Code, part of Edge Tools and Services.
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Felix Klock II on Rust: Concurrency, GCs, Type System
Felix Klock II explains concepts of the Rust language: the concurrency model, the type system, allocation and ownership models, the macro system, its style of FP and OOP, and much more.
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Netflix's Reactive Programming Model via Rx
Netflix leverages reactive system concepts to produce highly interactive and engaging User Interfaces. By using functional programming, Rx, and an intentional training method, they are able to ramp up their developers to produce reactive code quickly and with few bugs. Jafar explains how Netflix established this practice and gives a few pointers as to how your company can start its own.
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Woody Zuill on Mob Programming and No Estimates
Woody Zuill discusses Mob Programming, a practice where the whole team works on the same thing, at the same time in the same space on the same computer, as well as his thoughts on No Estimates.
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Jessica Kerr on Scala, scalaz, scalaz-stream, Testing with ScalaCheck
Jessica Kerr explains the reasons to use Scala (best of FP and OOP worlds), scalaz, I/O and async programming with scalaz-stream, property-based testing with ScalaCheck, and much more.
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Al Shalloway Discusses the Lean-Agile Method
Al Shalloway sits down to discuss how the Lean-Agile method breaks away from tribes such as Kanban and Scrum to get back to our shared values.
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Jakub Nesetril, CEO of Apiary on Web APIs and Developer Experience
Developer experience(DX) was one of the prime motivators for Web APIs in response to SOA. Now companies such as Apiary are focused on enhancing this experience and improving developer productivity by taking a page from the SOA book around automation through tooling. Jakub Nesetril explains the nuances of what constitutes good DX and how Web APIs need to be designed and implemented in this context.
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Developer Evangelist Jon Gottfried on App Development with Twilio
Developer Evangelist Jon Gottfried of Twilio discusses the ins and outs of adding voice and SMS messages with Twilio's RESTful API. Learn about adding Twilio's telephony features like sending and receiving text messages to and from your mobile or web app.
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Bryan Beecham on XP Not Dead
Bryan Beecham (aka Billy Garnet) reminds us that "XP not dead!" and shares his approach to teaching TDD and refactoring with Lego and applying XP and craftsmanship in teams as well as the human body.
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Francesco Cesarini and Viktor Klang on the Reactive Manifesto
Francesco Cesarini and Viktor Klang explain the motivation behind the Reactive Manifesto and what exactly it brings to the table. Also: what Erlang and Scala/Akka can learn from each other.
