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No REST - Architecting Real-Time Bulk Async APIs
Michael Uzquiano talks about how to scale an API to accept many items, how to evolve the Evolution of ReST over HTTP to transactional, asynchronous bulk operations and using polling.
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Syntactic Sugar for English: Pragmatic Eloquence
Wendy Closson talks about the concrete steps that will get one in the habit of winning friends and influencing people using an algorithmic approach to speaking authoritatively and authentically.
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Beyond Breakpoints: A Tour of Dynamic Analysis
Nathan Taylor provides an introduction to the dynamic analysis research space, suggesting integrating these techniques into various internal tools.
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Becoming an Outlier
Cory House talks about making a paradigm shift in career management, activities and skills that transform average developers into outliers and techniques to accelerate career development.
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An Approach to a Container-Happy Tech Department
Michael Venezia discusses creating a container-friendly environment starting with CI/CD of container images, providing a roadmap to meet an organization's needs and fostering cooperation.
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The Engineer's Guide to HotSpot JIT Compilation
Monica Beckwith discusses the performance introduced by adaptive compilation in the OpenJDK Hotspot VM, focusing on the internals of OpenJDK 8, the reference implementation for Java SE8.
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Algorithms for Animation
Courtney Hemphill walks through the basic principles of animation design and the simple formulas that can be used to create robust animations.
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Building an AI in the Cloud
Simon Chan shares the on-going challenges, the design dilemma and the steps to be taken when building customized large-scale predictive ML applications on a ML SaaS platform.
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WebSockets, Reactive APIs and Microservices
Todd Montgomery investigates whether WebSockets, HTTP/2, Reactive Streams and microservices can deliver the high scalability, resiliency, and ease of development promised.
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The Human Side of Microservices
John Billings talks about winning over those skeptical about the benefits of microservices along with tips on caching, failure, interface changes, etc. for building a distributed system architecture.
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Distributed Systems in Practice, in Theory
Aysylu Greenberg revisits some features of modern distributed systems and shows three architectural patterns, their application, and reference papers that are relevant to today's distributed systems.
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Low Latency Microservices in Java
Peter Lawrey discusses the differences between microservices and monolith architectures, their relative benefits and disadvantages, patterns and strategies implementing low latency microservices.