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Spanner - Google's Distributed Database

Sebastian Kanthak details how Spanner relies on GPS and atomic clocks to provide two of its innovative features: Lock-free strong reads and global snapshots consistent with external events.

Sebastian Kanthak
on Nov 25, 2013

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Clojure core.async

Rich Hickey discusses the motivation, design and use of the Clojure core.async library.

Rich Hickey
on Nov 22, 2013

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44:24
Javascript... FOR SCIENCE!

Angelina Fabbro, Bill Mills call developers to help scientists progress in their research, providing advice, a project and a JavaScript tool that could be the starting point in this endeavor.

Bill Mills Angelina Fabbro
on Nov 21, 2013

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40:10
Gershwin: Stack-based, Concatenative Clojure

Daniel Gregoire introduces Gershwin, a stack-based, concatenative programming language with a Clojure runtime that targets the JVM.

Daniel Gregoire
on Nov 21, 2013

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Add ALL the Things: Abstract Algebra Meets Analytics

Avi Bryant discusses how the laws of group theory provide a useful codification of the practical lessons of building efficient distributed and real-time aggregation systems.

Avi Bryant
on Nov 20, 2013

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37:49
Partitions for Everyone!

Kyle Kingsbury discusses some of the limitations found in distributed systems and the way some of them behave under partitioning.

Kyle Kingsbury
on Nov 19, 2013

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43:00
Exercises in Style

Crista Lopes writes a program in multiple styles -monolithic/OOP/continuations/relational/Pub-Sub/Monads/AOP/Map-reduce- showing the value of using more than a style in large scale systems.

Crista Lopes
on Nov 13, 2013

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39:26
Functional Reactive Programming in Elm

Evan Czaplicki explains the key concepts of Functional Reactive Programming, showing how FRP can avoid the callback hell. He shows how to use FRP for games, demoing a Mario game.

Evan Czaplicki
on Nov 05, 2013

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45:06
Taking PHP Seriously

Keith Adams outlines PHP's strengths and Facebook's attempts at remedying the inconsistencies and misfeatures in the core language.

Keith Adams
on Nov 05, 2013

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The Trouble With Types

Martin Odersky outlines the main categories of static type systems as well as some new developments, and discuss the tradeoffs they make.

Martin Odersky
on Oct 28, 2013

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48:51
Making Software Development Make Sense to Everyone

Jen Myers discusses the need to make software development attractive and accessible to a larger audience, improving the overall development and learning process in order to have better programmers.

Jen Myers
on Oct 28, 2013

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50:04