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Developing Customer Empathy
Chris Witeck covers key lessons learned by Citrix Labs as they tackle their goal of customer led innovation, discussing empathy mapping which involves showing off an idea and collecting feedback.
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Design Thinking, What's in it for Me?
Jeanine Spence explores the customer centric and iteration concepts of Design Thinking as an approach to problem solving through the lens of the personal.
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Redefining Failure at Yammer
Nate Fink shares how Yammer has changed everything from how they structure teams to the role of managers to how they measure progress so they can not only survive but thrive learning.
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Can Building Enterprise Software Actually Be Fun?
Steve Garrity explains the custom process they use at Hearsay Social for large, enterprise projects.
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Preparing PayPal for Launch
Sri Shivananda presents a case study on what it took to successfully separate PayPal’s technical infrastructure from eBay Inc. Sri shares key learnings applicable to engineers and developers.
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Explorations of the Three Legged Performance Stool
Charlie Hunt explains the three performance attributes of throughput, latency and (memory) footprint and how each of these are influenced in terms of JVM garbage collection.
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Experiences Building InfluxDB in Go
Paul Dix shares his experience building InfluxDB, an open source distributed time series database, in Go.
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Beyond the Hype: 4 Years of Go in Production
Travis Reeder thinks performance, memory, concurrency, reliability, and deployment are key to exploring Go and its value in production. Travis describes how it’s worked for Iron.io.
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Rust: Unlocking Systems Programming
Aaron Turon explains Rust's core notion of “ownership” and shows how Rust uses it to guarantee thread safety, how Rust avoids some of the pitfalls of C++ without compromising on performance.
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Have Native Languages Returned? (TL;DR: Yes)
In this panel users of C++, Rust, and Go talk about how they picked their language of choice, what problems remain, what was impossible to do with VM-based languages and much more.
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Bind to the Cloud with Falcor
Jafar Husain provides an inside look at the innovative Falcor, the open source JS data access framework that powers the Netflix UIs and the new UI design patterns it enables.
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Using React for the Mobile Web
Brian Holt talks about React, performance issues, some general web performance tips, lessons learned while helping write m.reddit.com using React.