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Stress and Depression – The Taboo and What We Can Do About It
Gitte Klitgaard discusses the stress and stress-induced depression that hits many knowledge workers and offers several tips and tricks to prevent it.
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Functional Distributed Programming with Irmin
Anil Madhavapeddy introduces the Irmin library by means of a functional queue, shows how the Git mirroring works, and then demonstrates some more complex applications.
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Powering the Industrial Enterprise: Introducing the IOT Platform-as-a-Service
Jesus Rodriguez explores the characteristics of the IOT PaaS vs. predecessor PaaS architectures, focusing on device management, event driven integration, real-time analytics and offline communication.
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20 Minutes from Ticket to Production. Zero Downtime.
Paul Payne explains the benefits of containerization of a Go web service, discussing testing, integration, canary deploys and how they achieve 20 minute development cycles with zero downtime.
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Fighting Fit: Why You Need Health, Nutrition, and Fitness to Be a Successful Technologist
Hugh Williams shares his experiences of why health, nutrition, and exercise are essential to being a successful engineer and leader.
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FsCheck: For Each Function There Exist Properties to Be Checked
Paulmichael Blasucci takes a look at FsCheck, a powerful library for doing property-based testing and sophisticated data generation in the CLR ecosystem.
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Distributing a Mobile Team: A Brave New Etsy Chapter
Hannah Mittelstaedt talks about how Etsy dissolved the traditional Android and iOS teams and trained tons of web developers in app development.
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Easier, Better, Faster, Safer Deployment with Docker and Immutable Containers
Jerome Petazzoni explains in detail the advantages of immutable servers, then how to implement them with containers in general, and Docker in particular.
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Scaling Stack Overflow: Keeping it Vertical by Obsessing Over Performance
David Fullerton shares some of the things the Stack Exchange tech team have learned along the way while scaling one of the top sites in the world primarily through vertical scaling.
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A Pragmatic Introduction to Multicore Synchronization
Samy Bahra discusses high performance multicore synchronization, scalability bottlenecks in multicore systems and memory models, and scalable locking and lock-less synchronization.
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Where Next? Building a Career as a Technologist
Peter Bell discusses how to identify the ideal job, building a personal brand, balancing management and coding, freelance vs. full time and startup vs enterprise opportunities.
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Mobile-first Architectures
Alexander Stigsen explores the challenges & opportunities in developing for the new mobile cloud, where most of the processing power is not in a datacenter but in the pockets of users.
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