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Building Hypermedia Clients
Todd Brackley demonstrates provisioning a network of data through a JavaScript client to show that there is no magic and talks through some of the major design issues.
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Assuring Crypto-code with Automated Reasoning
A.Tomb describes the capabilities of some open source tools that allow us to automatically determine whether a low-level cryptographic implementation matches a higher-level mathematical specification
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Goodbye PrintGCDetails... and Other JDK 9 Changes!
Tony Printezis talks about the major changes and improvements coming in JDK 9 that will affect (but also help) anyone who's interested in Java performance monitoring, profiling, and tuning.
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Our Concurrent Past; Our Distributed Future
Joe Duffy talks about the concurrency's explosion onto the mainstream over the past 15 years and attempts to predict what lies ahead for distributed programming, from now til 15 years into the future.
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Taming Complexity with Object-Oriented UX
Sophia Voychehovski discusses all the factors that cause complexity, the three key ways one can wrangle it and object-oriented UX.
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Reactive & Asynchronous - Adventures with APIs in Financial Trading
Michael Barker discusses several low-latency APIs used for financial trading, what makes them fast and how they compare to HTTP/REST/JSON/XML APIs.
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Performance and Search
Dan Luu discusses how to estimate performance using back of the envelope calculations that can be done in minutes or hours, even for applications that take months or years to implement.
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Engineering You
Lynn Langit and Martin Thompson explore the individual practices and techniques that can help bring out the engineer in us.
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API Design Aesthetics
Col Perks looks at API design as a style, considering the qualities that might make an API beautiful and providing real world examples.
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Pricing Page Optimization
Elena Verna discusses user behavior on the pricing page and how to organize the A/B testing resources to optimize the pricing page, one of the most important funnels of a website.
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Freeing the Whale: How to Fail at Scale
Oliver Gould discusses Finagle, a library providing a uniform model for handling failure at the communications layer, enabling Twitter to fail, safely and often.
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SQL Server on Linux: Will it Perform or Not?
Slava Oks talks about SQL Server’s history, high-level architecture and dives into core of I/O Manager, Memory Manager, and Scheduler. Topics include lessons learned and experiences behind the scenes.