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PuppetDB: A Story of Immutable Infrastructure

Deepak Giridharagopal discusses "immutable infrastructure", PuppetDB and complex invariants, PuppetDB’s architecture, the experience of bringing Clojure to a Ruby shop and lessons learned from that.

Deepak Giridharagopal
on May 09, 2014

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48:34
Effective Actors

Jamie Allen reviews some of the actor patterns as implemented in Akka and Scala.

Jamie Allen
on May 08, 2014

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50:26
The Great Mobile Debate: Native vs Hybrid App Development

Nick Landry makes a tour of the multiple choices in mobile development: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, HTML5, native, hybrid, web, languages, tools, helping listeners decide what they need.

Nick Landry
on May 04, 2014

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01:04:26
With a Hammer in Your Hand… Elasticsearch

Simon Willnauer introduces and demoes some of the main features of Elasticsearch.

Simon Willnauer
on May 03, 2014

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48:45
Real World Akka Recipes

Jamie Allen describes three patterns using Akka actors: handling a lack of guaranteed delivery, distributing tasks to worker actors and implementing distributed workers in an Akka cluster.

Jamie Allen
on May 01, 2014

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41:55
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs

Robert Smallshire explores the disconnect between the dire outcomes predicted by advocates of static typing versus the near absence of type errors in real world systems built with dynamic languages.

Robert Smallshire
on Apr 26, 2014

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51:42
MythBashers: An Adventure in Overlooked Technologies

Avdi Grimm takes Bash to its limits and beyond.

Avdi Grimm
on Apr 25, 2014

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34:11
Exploring a Legacy Clojure Codebase

Jon Neale, Ragnar Dahlen discuss the challenges dealing with large Clojure legacy code at uSwitch.

Jon Neale Ragnar Dahlen
on Apr 18, 2014

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48:37
Dissecting Clojure Reducers

Renzo Borgatti discusses implementing parallel solutions with reducers in Clojure, doing live coding that show what functional abstractions are involved and why.

Renzo Borgatti
on Apr 14, 2014

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38:45
Enso: Composing DSL Interpreters, Languages & Aspects

William Cook introduces Enso, an external language workbench with both graphical and textual editing capabilities.

William Cook
on Apr 14, 2014

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34:54
Lambdas & Streams

Simon Ritter discusses the syntax and use of Lambda expressions, focusing on using Streams to greatly simplify the way bulk and aggregate operations are handled in Java.

Simon Ritter
on Apr 06, 2014

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Patterns for Scalable Web Services in Go

Richard Crowley introduces Go standard library's HTTP packages, the relationship between JSON and Go's data structures, and Go's support for reflection, useful to create safe APIs.

Richard Crowley
on Apr 01, 2014

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