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Running Third-Party JavaScript
Kate Sills discusses how to minimize the risks of running third-party JavaScript. She goes over POLA, and how object capabilities can help grant specific, limited resources to third-party code.
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Feature Toggles: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Andy Davies covers how to use feature toggles effectively, some of the horror stories and how to avoid them, and how to deal with them if they do occur.
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Functional Programming for Array-Based Parallelism
Gabriele Keller overviews functional array-based high-performance computing, how to map such programs efficiently to parallel hardware, and discusses challenges and ongoing work.
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Creating "The Second Best Place on the Internet" with Spring Initializr
Stéphane Nicoll uses live coding to share some tips and tricks for using Spring Initializr, talks about how it came to be, and shows how to create an instance for a custom project.
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Bangle.js - Creating a Smart Watch with JavaScript
Gordon Williams talks about how he took an off the shelf smart watch, reverse engineered it, installed a JS interpreter on 400 of them and got them into the hands of the attendees at NodeConf EU.
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Hello Quantum Developers World - Yet Another Frontier for JavaScript
Miguel Ramalho talks about the principles of Quantum Computing, how it differs from Classical Computing, how and why it is evolving so fast. He also talks about the so-promised Quantum Developers.
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Climate Change & Tech, Good and Bad Bedfellows
Paul Johnston explores the impact of climate change, and looks at the changing world of business continuity and disaster recovery and shows how to identify high and low impact interventions.
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Hallway Testing - Cool Face of Usability Testing
Ewa Marchewka discusses good practices in hallway testing, who should be involved and how, what projects can benefit from this technique, when to use it, and what to avoid.
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Demystifying the Most Significant Java Language Features from 9 to 11
Ionut Balosin discusses some of the Java features appearing in Java 9, 10 and 11.
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Design Decisions for Perfect JavaScript Testing Framework
Michael Bodnarchuk discusses solving testing issues in JS: choosing proper abstraction level, choosing a running backend, dealing with asynchronicity, and choosing a test runner.
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Java in Containers - Part Deux
David Delabassee looks in parallel at how OpenJDK is evolving to cope with some of those changes and most importantly what it all means for Java developers.
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Creating High-Performance Web Apps with WebAssembly
Konstantin Möllers shows how WebAssembly works and how it can be used to develop a hybrid app with high-performance code written in Rust and UI code written in JavaScript.