InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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GraphQL for All? A Few Things to Think about before Blindly Dumping REST for GraphQL
Arnaud Lauret discusses REST vs. GraphQL, comparing their strengths and weaknesses, suggesting evaluating both before making a decision.
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AaaS – Anything as a Service. Anything Left to Do, Then?
Dustin Huptas compares private infrastructure with cloud IaaS. PaaS, serverless, considering pros and cons and discussing cases where either model makes sense.
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Beyond Big Data - The Realization of an Active Grid in the Age of Fog Computing
Jan Forrslow discusses Fog Computing, Active Grids, and how an IoT network can become an Active Grid by using Fog Computing.
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In Depth TensorFlow
Illia Polosukhin keynotes on TensorFlow, introducing it and presenting the components and concepts it is built upon.
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Parasitic Programming Languages
David Nolen examines the benefits and tradeoffs associated with creating a language based on an existing runtime, with a special focus on the Clojure and ClojureScript projects.
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Building Secure Player Experiences at Riot Games
David Rook talks about the Riot Games Application Security program. He focusses on the tech and social aspects of the program and why he feels both are important when it comes to writing secure code.
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How to Backdoor Invulnerable Code
Josh Schwartz takes a look at the real tactics, with examples, used to compromise and backdoor seemingly secure products by exploiting the humans and systems that create them.
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Blockchain: The Oracle Problems
Paul Sztorc talks about why the oracle problem is so hard (the historical evolution of failures, why they fail), and the basics of blockchain ("blockchain as immortal software", ledger "rents").
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Big Ideas: Decentralized Storage
David Vorick talks about the need for distributed/decentralized storage, real life use cases for distributed storage systems, dealing with data loss in a distributed system, overviewing IPFS and Sia.
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Case Study: Alternate Blockchains
Jeremy Rand talks about Namecoin and Monero, the advantages to alternate blockchains, and risks of using chains that are not as secured or are merge mined.
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Practical Blockchains: Building on Bitcoin
Peter Todd answers the questions: why use Bitcoin over other blockchains, what is safe, future proof ways to peg data to Bitcoin's blockchain and what is Bitcoin script, and how it can be used.
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The Journey to a Customer Experience Driven Enterprise
Laura Heritage discusses key aspects - Cloud services and API-led integrations - essential to having success in building a customer experience driven enterprise.