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Scala, ECS, and Docker: Delayed Execution @Coursera
Brennan Saeta talks about aspects of Coursera’s architecture that enable them to rapidly build sophisticated features for their learning platform, the use of containers and security-related issues.
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Using Pony for Fintech
Sylvan Clebsch talks about using Pony for fintech to build high-performance tools. Pony is a new actor-model statically typed language, compiled AOT, with a GC and a data-race free type system.
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Eclipse Orion: Fast, Functional and at Your Fingertips
Steve Northover presents tips, tricks and new features that make JavaScript development more productive and fun with Eclipse Orion, including quick fixes, content assist and refactoring support.
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How Will Persistent Memory Change Software Design?
Maciej Maciejewski discusses persistent memory, storage devices, and DRAM, accessing persistent memory with ACPI 6.0 extensions, existing support in the Linux kernel and the NVM library.
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Being Meta
Jevgenij Nekrasov discusses doing meta-programming in .NET, including writing a custom DSL.
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Java 9's Other Puzzle Pieces
Erik Costlow discusses which Java 9 improvements are automatic, which require an update, and how to take advantage of new multi-release JAR files and maintain backwards compatibility during upgrade.
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From Zero to Hyper in 30 Minutes: Live Coding a Hypermedia Client
Mike Amundsen demos creating a HTTP request in JavaScript using Request, Response, Render, and Repeat, then handling the responses, and parsing the returned document for data, links, and forms.
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Project Jigsaw in JDK 9: Modularity Comes to Java
Simon Ritter explains the impact Jigsaw will have on developers in terms of building their applications, as well as helping them to understand how things like encapsulation will change in JDK 9.
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Moving a Large Swing-Based Geoscience Application to Eclipse
Mike Reyes and Mary Cole discuss the reasons for selecting Eclipse and RCP, how the move was made, challenges encountered during this move, and the benefits that have resulted from this change.
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Compositional I/O Stream in Scala
Runar Bjarnason presents how to get started with the Scalaz-Stream library, shows some examples, and how we can combine functional streams into large distributed systems.
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Types Working for You, Not against You
Richard Dallaway shows an example of what Scala looks like when using pattern matching over classes, how to encode an idea into types and use advanced features of Scala without complicating the code.
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A Browse Through ES6
Jez Higgins takes a look at some of the most significant features in ES6, the impact they have on writing JavaScript, and how one can start using them today.