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Christian Legnitto on the Mobile Release Process and Tooling at Facebook
Christian Legnitto describes FB's release process for mobile apps, how FB has no dedicated iOS or Android teams, A/B testing and the Play Beta program, tools used for the build process, and much more.
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Machine Learning Netflix Style with Xavier Amatriain
Xavier Amatriain discusses how Netflix uses specialized roles, including that of the Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer, to deliver valuable data at the right time to Netflix' customer base through a mixture of offline, online, and nearline data processes. Xavier also discusses what it takes to become a Machine Learning Engineer and how to gain real experience in the field.
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Keith Adams on PHP at Facebook, Efficient PHP with HHVM, Optional Typing with Hack
Keith Adams explains how/where/why Facebook uses PHP, PHP's benefits (lack of state/programmer workflow/concurrency), efficient PHP with HHVM, the Hack project for optional typing PHP and much more.
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Martin Thompson Discusses Reactive System Design
Martin Thompson discusses the buidling of complex systems with regards to the Reactive Manifesto. Many web-based systems are built in a synchronous manner and that way of development may be their greatest barrier to scale and could greatly limit their production lifespan. Martin discusses these shortcomings and gives some advice on how to make systems truly reactive.
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Victor Grazi on Java, Process and being a Java Champion
Victor Grazi talks to InfoQ about his popular tutorial application Java Concurrent Animated, and other things on his mind including Java, the financial industry, software development lifecycle, and being a Java Champion.
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Michelle Andreassen on Enterprise Gamification
Michelle Andreassen talks about gamification, the PBL and avatars and shares some examples and strategies of how gamification can be used in the enterprise.
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Frank Greco on WebSocket
Frank Greco explains the reasons behind the WebSocket standard, the current implementations, how WebSocket relates to AJAX and Comet for event driven applications, and much more.
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Sadek Drobi on Functional Programming and the Web, Fixing CMS with prismic.io
Sadek Drobi explains the benefits of functional programming for the web. Also: improving CMS by separating content from representation and how prismic.io implements ideas from functional DBs and Git.
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Dave Farley on Continuous Delivery
Dave Farley discusses the reasons for Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, the advantages and challenges they pose, and much more.
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Mark Meretzky on the Strengths and Weaknesses of iOS and Android
Mark Meretzky explains the difference in programming for iOS and Android, which platform is easier to teach, fragmentation, XCode vs Eclipse, and much more.
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Tim Berglund on Product Owners, Product Development at GitHub
Tim Berglund explains GitHub's approach to product owners and product development and how that can (or can not) translate to other companies.
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Saul Mora on Design Patterns for Mobile Development
Saul Mora explains why Design Patterns are useful for mobile developers to understand (iOS) APIs, the power of Objective-C, mobile development trends, the difference between iOS and Android, and more.
