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Ethical Tech - A Psychologist's Perspective
Alexander Steinhart lives and works in Berlin and has a rather interesting background in psychology as well as technology.
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Optimizing for Production Workloads
S. Ortiz & D. Walsh discuss breaking down the containers runtimes into their base functionality and then building them up into a series or core libraries and tools to specialize in core capabilities.
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XDP in Practice: DDoS Mitigation @Cloudflare
Gilberto Bertin discusses the architecture of Cloudflare’s automatic DDoS mitigation pipeline, the initial packet filtering solution based on Iptables, and why they had to introduce userspace offload.
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Unikraft - Unleashing the Power of Unikernels
Felipe Huici introduces Unikraft, describes it in greater detail, and gives a brief demo of how to use it in order to build a few different unikernels.
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Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad?
Trisha Gee explores common coding scenarios using Java and Kotlin, discussing Java's evolution to improve productivity, and why staying up to date with Java can help.
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Serverless and Java in the Real World
John Chapin describes the nuts and bolts of building large-scale serverless applications using Java, showcasing the efficiency of Java and several examples of scalable, evolvable, Lambda apps
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Java at Scale
Steve Poole explores the cutting edge of “Java at Scale” and discusses how the use cases are being reflected in new thoughts about Java and the JVM.
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Neural Networks across Space and Time
Dave Snowdon starts with a brief introduction to deep neural networks, why they are important and how they work. He covers 2 of the most important deep neural architectures: convolutional & recurrent.
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Cluster Consensus: When Aeron Met Raft
Martin Thompson explains how consensus algorithms operate and the techniques that can be applied to make them efficient. Thompson covers the mechanics of a working consensus system.
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Applied Performance Theory
Kavya Joshi explores the use of performance theory in real systems at companies like Facebook, and discusses how it can be leveraged, to prepare systems for flux and scale.
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High Performance Actors
Kiki Carter takes a deep-dive to investigate how efficient resource utilization is achieved with Akka & looks at some of the other libraries that Akka leverages for improved efficiency-Aeron, JCTools
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Parallelizing Product Development with GraphQL
Chris Biscardi talks about how to drive API development forward with the data model as the source of truth using the GraphQL Schema Definition Language.