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Performance and How to Measure It
Matt Warren takes a look at how to measure, what to measure and how get the best performance from .NET code, considering examples from the Roslyn codebase and StackOverflow (the product).
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Elm: Finding the Functional in Reactive Programming
Claudia Doppioslash discusses some of the useful features of Elm, such as time traveling debugger, immutability, union types, type inference and Functional Reactive Programming.
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Two-Factor Authentication
Phil Nash takes a look at generating one time passwords, implementing two-factor authentication in web applications and the use cases for QR codes.
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Implementing Software Machines in Go and C
Eleanor McHugh discusses writing virtual machines using hardware emulation, including code snippets in Go and C.
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Image Processing for iOS
Simon Gladman overviews some of the image processing techniques available to iOS developers and three frameworks offered by Apple: Core Image, Accelerate/vImage and Metal.
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Finally, Object-Oriented Programming without Objection
Noel Welsh discusses the paradigm of the functional programmer, contrasting it with the paradigm of the object-oriented programmer, and considering if it is possible to reconcile the two.
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Documentation Avoidance for Programmers
Peter Hilton discusses how to avoid writing documentation, and when it must be done, how to write it, including tools and tips for writing minimal documentation.
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Elements of Scale
Ben Stopford examines tools, mechanisms and tradeoffs that allow a data architecture to scale, from disk formats to fully blown architectures for real-time storage, streaming and batch processing.
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Privacy is Always a Requirement
Eleanor McHugh shares insights on digital privacy, encouraging others to gather the minimum information possible about their users in order to serve their needs.
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Introduction to Java Profiling
Jerry Yoakum discusses how code profiling tools and techniques can be used to evaluate code for constructions and errors that are likely to cause problems, highlight places in need of refactoring.
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Circuit Breaking in Distributed Systems
Matt Heath discusses how circuit breakers and other similar patterns can be used to increase reliability in distributed systems such as Go-based microservice platforms.
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Machine Learning and IoT
Ajit Jaokar discusses data science and IoT: sensor data, real-time processing, cognitive computing, integration of IoT analytics with hardware, IoT’s impact on healthcare, automotive, wearables, etc.