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The History of Fire Escapes
Tanya Reilly looks at what can be learned from real world fire codes about expecting failure and designing for it.
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A Brief, Opinionated History of the API
Joshua Bloch discusses the history of APIs and looks at a few prominent examples with an eye to distilling their essence.
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Developers as a Malware Distribution Vehicle
Guy Podjarny discusses risk management with examples from role models inside and outside of tech. Podjarny explains cognitive biases and how good security constraints can actually help move faster.
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Next Gen Networking Infrastructure with Rust
Carl Lerche shows using Rust to provide a networking platform that provides expressiveness, speed, and safety, exemplifying with Linkerd, a “service mesh” proxy for cloud native applications.
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Heretical Resilience: To Repair is Human
Ryn Daniels describes the “Apache SNAFU”, shares their experiences as the instigator of that snafu and walks through the lessons that can be learned from such an event.
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Visualizing Home Automation with GRiSP
Claudia Doppioslash and Adam Lindberg introduce GRiSP, a home automation project written in Erlang and JavaScript/D3.
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In Praise of Higher Order Functions
Mary Sheeran discusses higher order functions, taking a look at their history and their algebra, showing some examples capturing patterns in hardware description and GPU programming.
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Effective Java, Third Edition - Keepin' it Effective
Joshua Bloch covers some highlights from the third edition of “Effective Java”, concentrating on streams and lambdas.
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Java 11 - Keeping the Java Release Train on the Right Track
Jeanne Boyarsky reviews code examples of the new features in Java 11, and also features of Java 10. She also discusses the impact of the new Java release train on production code.
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IoT and Microservices
Fred George discusses how to implement an IoT solution with asynchronous microservices, detailing such a solution using Hue lights, Amazon Alexa, Apple TV and Docker.
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Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad?
Trisha Gee explores common coding scenarios using Java and Kotlin, discussing Java's evolution to improve productivity, and why staying up to date with Java can help.