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Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago"Building a Distributed Task Scheduler With Akka, Kafka, and Cassandra" by David van Geest - Duration: 36 minutes.
Dynamically scheduled tasks are at the heart of PagerDuty's microservices. They deliver incident alerts, on-call notifications, and manage myriad administrative chores. Historically, these tasks we... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Build your child their very own Node.js Frozen bot" by Gabrielle Crevecoeur - Duration: 39 minutes.
Gabrielle Crevecoeur dives into the world of NodeBots. Using Node.js, the Node Robotics frameworks, and an Arduino, Gabrielle walks participants through creating a bot, step by step. Although the N... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Unlimited Register Machines, Gödelization and Universality" by Tom Hall - Duration: 39 minutes.
Lot's of people know about Turing Machines and the Lambda Calculus and that they both can express any computable function, but often don't really understand what that means. An Unlimited Register M... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Kittens - datatype-generic functional programming with Scala" by Kailuo Wang - Duration: 35 minutes.
Kittens is a proof of concept library built on top of shapeless[1] and cats[2] as an experiment of combining generic and functional programming. It can help Scala programs achieve higher flexibilit... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"How Rocket Science Can Help You Build Your App" by Rashied Amini - Duration: 43 minutes.
For over half a century, NASA has been building, launching, and operating space missions where failure is not an option. NASA's track record of success is due in part to the standards and practices... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Are DDoS attacks a threat to the decentralised internet?" by Marek Majkowski - Duration: 40 minutes.
DDoS attacks often grab the headlines when they take down an important website. Sadly, DDoS experts usually keep the attack information to themselves. All the DDoS mitigation resources are centrali... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"How to bring open source to a closed community" by Abigail Cabunoc Mayes - Duration: 37 minutes.
This past year, I've been testing out ways to bring more open source to the academic research space. It hasn't been easy -- the research world is full of competition, private data and a cutthroat n... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"African Polyphony & Polyrhythm" by Chris Ford - Duration: 41 minutes.
Ethnomusicologists face a dilemma: either shoehorn African music into European notation, or create custom DSLs that can only be understood by a select band of European ethnomusicologists. Algomusic... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Runtime scheduling: theory and reality" by Eben Freeman - Duration: 42 minutes.
Whether you're using plain old OS threads or a userspace threading model, understanding the subtleties of scheduling and how it affects parallel programs can be tricky. As systems and performance e... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Knit, Chisel, Hack: Building Programs in Guile Scheme" by Andy Wingo - Duration: 40 minutes.
This talk makes the case that Guile is a delightful medium for making crafty programs, from the most ephemeral scripts to long-lived systems that you can rely on for years. Guile takes the elegant ... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Frontiers in Cryptography" by Tony Arcieri - Duration: 36 minutes.
Cryptography is an ancient idea, but modern approaches which draw from deep mathematics and have only started to pop up in the past decade. This talk will provide a broad survey of approaches for a... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Wikimedia Content API: A Cassandra Use-case" by Eric Evans - Duration: 36 minutes.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit and charitable organization driven by a vision of a world where every human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Each month Wikimedia sites serve o... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"The Zen of High Performance Messaging with NATS" by Waldemar Quevedo Salinas - Duration: 39 minutes.
NATS is an open source, high performant messaging system with a design oriented towards both being as simple and reliable as possible without at the same time trading off scalability. Originally wr... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Tezos, decentralized cryptographic governance through self-amendments" by Arthur Breitman - Duration: 41 minutes.
We present Tezos, a generic and self-amending crypto-ledger which can instantiate any blockchain based ledger. The operations of a regular blockchain are implemented as a purely functional module a... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Rusty Runtimes: Building Languages In Rust" by Aditya Siram - Duration: 35 minutes.
Until recently making a compiler from scratch that produced fast native executables with a well-tuned garbage collector meant getting really comfy with C. Rust has risen to the top of the heap as a... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
""go test -race" Under the Hood" by Kavya Joshi - Duration: 44 minutes.
Writing correct concurrent code is hard. Debugging incorrect concurrent code is even harder. The Go race detector, introduced in Go version 1.1, is one cool tool that makes both easy to do in Go pr... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"How would a Panda program computers?" by Jonas S Karlsson - Duration: 33 minutes.
It's 2016, but our approach to programming isn't much different from 1976. It's characterized by text in files, syntax errors, bugs, and documentation on the side. The feedback cycle may be smaller... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Sketch-n-Sketch: Interactive SVG Programming with Direct Manipulation" by Ravi Chugh - Duration: 40 minutes.
Programmatic and direct manipulation systems have distinct and complementary strengths, but users must typically choose one over the other or use some ad-hoc combination of systems. As an attempt t... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Tulip: A Language for Humans" by Sig Cox, Jeanine Adkisson - Duration: 43 minutes.
There are a lot of competing ideas about what makes a language “good”. This is because we as language designers still have no idea what we're doing. The design of Tulip is based on careful study of... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Building Secure Cultures" by Leigh Honeywell - Duration: 26 minutes.
Leigh is a Security Engineer at Slack. Prior to Slack, she worked at Salesforce.com, Microsoft, and Symantec. Founder of several hackerspaces, she is currently Chief Security Officer of Double Unio... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Poetry (almost) From Scratch - Teaching versification to a neural network" by Yann Schwartz - Duration: 43 minutes.
Poetry can take many forms but could be defined as a delicate balance between constraints and expression. Computers are pretty good at constraints, less so at expression.
The general problem of cr... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Languages for 3D Industrial Knitting" by Lea Albaugh - Duration: 40 minutes.
Industrial computer-controlled knitting machines are churning out seamless three-dimensional fabric objects as you read this -- think gloves, sweaters, sportswear, furnishings, architectural fabric... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Building a Distributed Build System at Google Scale" by Aysylu Greenberg - Duration: 43 minutes.
It's hard to imagine a modern developer workflow without a sufficiently advanced build system: Make, Gradle, Maven, Rake, and many others. In this talk, we'll discuss the evolution of build systems... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Changing the engine in flight: rebuilding monitoring at scale" by Jennie Lees - Duration: 34 minutes.
What do you do when you outscale your monitoring systems, and need to upgrade -- while keeping the lights on 24/7 around the world? This talk will walk through the ins and outs of architecting a re... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Lies, Damn Lies, and Metrics" by André Arko - Duration: 36 minutes.
Metrics are great, and measuring things can provide tremendously useful insights. But there's a problem: metrics lie to you. Metrics just report the numbers that were measured. Analyzing those numb... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Commander: Better Distributed Applications through CQRS and Event Sourcing" by Bobby Calderwood - Duration: 42 minutes.
Have you ever hit a wall with REST? Does modeling your problem domain into CRUD-able entities feel like fitting a square peg into a round hole? Perhaps instead of modeling our services like little ... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Let's Build a Hygienic Macro Expander" by Matthew Flatt - Duration: 40 minutes.
Although the idea of hygienic macro expansion appeals to many programmers, the details of hygienic expansion have scared away many language implementors. In fact, in the same way that lexical scope... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Deep dive into Unbounded Data Processing Systems" by Monal Daxini - Duration: 45 minutes.
The need for gleaning answers from data in real-time is moving from nicety to a necessity. There are few options to analyze the never-ending stream of unbounded data at scale. Let's compare and con... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Exotic Functional Data Structures: Hitchhiker Trees" by David Greenberg - Duration: 40 minutes.
Functional data structures are awesome--they're the foundation of many functional programming languages, allowing us to express complex logic immutably and efficiently. There is one unfortunate lim... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"GraphQL: Designing a Data Language" by Lee Byron - Duration: 39 minutes.
GraphQL is a static-strong-typed application data query language and runtime designed and used at Facebook to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps since 2012, and was redesigned prior to... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"The Future of the Mobile Web" by Paul Kinlan - Duration: 54 minutes.
Paul is a Developer Advocate on the Google Chrome team helping his fellow developers succeed on the Mobile Web. He specializes in Mobile Web Development, Web Standards, Google Chrome, and Chrome OS... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Humanities x Technology" by Ashley Nelson-Hornstein - Duration: 50 minutes.
Ashley Nelson-Hornstein is an iOS engineer, speaker, and avid blogger. She's also the co-founder of Sound Off, a non-profit that works to increase access marginalized people in tech have to profess... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"A Frontend Server, Front to Back" by Zach Tellman - Duration: 46 minutes.
For any service, the frontend is the services which depend on it, and the backend is the services it depends upon. In a many-layered service-oriented system, the frontend server is the outermost la... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"End-to-end encryption: Behind the scenes" by Martin Kleppmann, Diana Vasile - Duration: 39 minutes.
There is no cloud — it's just someone else's computer. And you're storing all sorts of sensitive data on it, blindly trusting that this computer will only allow access to authorised users. What if ... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Caching at Netflix: The Hidden Microservice" by Scott Mansfield - Duration: 35 minutes.
Netflix is well known for championing the microservice model, but within the complex layers of dependencies is a hidden service: the caching layer. The Netflix customer experience relies heavily on... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Systems programming as a swiss army knife" by Julia Evans - Duration: 36 minutes.
You might think of the Linux kernel as something that only kernel developers need to know about. Not so! It turns out that understanding some basics about kernels and systems programming makes you ... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Expressing complex data aggregations with Histogrammar" by Jim Pivarski - Duration: 35 minutes.
Since the 1970's, data analysis in high energy physics has revolved around the histogram: an array of integers approximating a distribution. Fortran codes drawing ASCII-art plots bear a strong rese... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Knowing What You See - Let's Talk About Front-end Consistency" by Yifan Wu - Duration: 35 minutes.
Managing the consistency of interactive visualizations in the face of inherent asynchrony and reordering of events in modern data visualizations is challenging. This talk will go over a new view (q... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Building Secure Systems in Haskell" by Deian Stefan - Duration: 37 minutes.
Large-scale private user data theft has become a common occurrence. A huge factor in these privacy breaches we hear so much about is that developers specify and enforce data security policies by st... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Diocletian, Constantine, Bedouin Sayings, and Network Defense" by Adam Wick - Duration: 41 minutes.
In the early 4th century, the Roman emperors Diocletian and Constantine looked around their empire, and realized that they had troubles. The crisis of the third century had left the empire broke, w... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Debugging Diversity" by Anjuan Simmons - Duration: 42 minutes.
Despite the media attention given to the diversity in tech problem, many technology practitioners don't see how a lack of diversity affects their daily lives. So, it is not surprising that they nei... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Project Jigsaw in JDK 9: Modularity Comes To Java" by Simon Ritter - Duration: 42 minutes.
Project Jigsaw will bring modularity to the Java platform; something that will enable better security, performance and flexibility for deployment of applications. This talk will look at the fundame... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Exploring Conversational Interfaces with Amazon Alexa and Go" by Mike Flynn - Duration: 37 minutes.
Conversational interfaces are exploding in both development and use in 2016. Amazon's Alexa service and their Echo are at the forefront of this exciting new interaction model but Microsoft, Faceboo... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Point-Free or Die: Tacit Programming in Haskell and Beyond" by Amar Shah - Duration: 36 minutes.
Tacit programming, or programming in the “point-free” style, allows you to define a function without reference to one or more of its arguments. Thanks to automatic currying, point-free definitions ... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Fold, paper, scissors - an exploration of origami's fold and cut problem" by Amy Wibowo - Duration: 22 minutes.
This talk looks beyond origami as a childhood pastime and an art form and instead, explores origami as a source of many interesting mathematical problems, including one called the fold-and-cut prob... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"An Interactive Web Visualization for Watershed Topology" by Mark Phillips - Duration: 40 minutes.
Where does the rain go once it hits the ground? Some of it soaks into the ground, and some of it evaporates. The rest flows into creeks, streams, lakes, and rivers, eventually making its way to an ... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Druid: Powering Interactive Data Applications at Scale" by Fangjin Yang - Duration: 45 minutes.
Cluster computing frameworks such as Hadoop or Spark are tremendously beneficial in processing and deriving insights from data. However, long query latencies make these frameworks sub-optimal choic... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Put A Type On It: Idris Type Providers for AWS Resources" by Susan Potter - Duration: 43 minutes.
Enforcing the myriad of policies surrounding security, availability, cost, and other business requirements of new services in a distributed operating environment is not for the faint of heart.
In ... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"Modelica: Component Oriented Modeling of Physical Systems" by Michael Tiller - Duration: 41 minutes.
There are lots of programming languages out there, but very few like Modelica. Modelica is a standardized language for describing the behavior of physical and cyber-physical systems. It incorporate... -
Strange Loop uploaded a video 3 months ago
"PureScript & Pux -- a safer, more expressive way to React" by Michael Trotter - Duration: 27 minutes.
You've heard of Elm and it sounds super cool, but you can't rewrite from scratch and you don't want to give up the innovation of the React community! What if you could get Elm's benefits one file a...
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