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Building Inclusive Mini Golf: a Practical Guide to Accessible XR Development

Colby Morgan discusses practical strategies and technical examples for building accessible and inclusive XR experiences. Learn about their core design principles, including accessibility at the start, invisible features, simplicity, and layered depth, using Walkabout Mini Golf as a case study.

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Architecture & Design

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Fitness Functions for Your Architecture

Software, its size, its requirements, and its infrastructure environment evolve over time. Software architecture should evolve accordingly, to meet current and future operational and developmental requirements. Fitness functions are guardrails that enable the continuous evolution of your system's architecture, within a range and a direction, that you desire and define.

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AI Infrastructure

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Responsible AI for FinTech

Lexy Kassan discusses the critical aspects of responsible AI, focusing on regulatory updates like the EU AI Act and its implications for FinTech. She explains the levels of responsible AI, from ethical principles to practical implementation, including AI governance. Explore FinTech's disruptive AI response, open-source use, workforce shifts, review boards & risk frameworks.

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Culture & Methods

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Productivity Lessons in Moving from Big Tech to Scaling a Startup

Rachel Potvin discusses the key differences in developer productivity between startups and established tech companies. Drawing from her experiences at GitHub and Google, she explains the critical role of urgency, flexible team structures, lean metrics, top-down planning, and a culture of experimentation in driving startup success. She also shares practical examples and actionable strategies.

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DevOps

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Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs

This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime.

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Sweet Elixir! A Gentle Introduction to Erlang’s Cute Younger Brother Elixir

Ryan Cromwell introduces Elixir, a , functional distributed meta programming language inspired by Ruby and compiling to Erlang VM, covering pattern matching, pipelines and tail-call recursion.

Ryan Cromwell
on Oct 12, 2014

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Retro Gaming with Lambdas

Stephen Chin shows how to use lambda in Java to create a video game with JavaFX. Other features covered are: enhanced collections, functional interfaces, simplified event handlers, and the stream API.

Stephen Chin
on Oct 09, 2014

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The Functional Final Frontier

David Nolen introduces Om, a ClojureScript library that adds a functional layer on top of Facebook React, providing OO abstractions in a MVC environment.

David Nolen
on Oct 04, 2014

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Teach Your Eye to Eat (Clojure)

Mario Aquino discusses the structure and organization of Clojure's Lisp syntax as well as special forms in the language for declaring data structures.

Mario Aquino
on Oct 02, 2014

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Erlang Patterns Matching Business Needs

Torben Hoffmann shares a number of patterns from Erlang systems, modeled through Object-Process Methodology, discussing their impact on business needs.

Torben Hoffmann
on Sep 07, 2014

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That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp

Rick Reed shares scalability and reliability insights, techniques, and hacks used and learned developing WhatsApp on an Erlang/FreeBSD infrastructure.

Rick Reed
on Sep 06, 2014

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Caml Trading - Experiences with OCaml on Wall Street

Jane Street runs a large trading business on software written almost entirely in OCaml, a statically typed functional language. Yaron Minsky shows the reasons for choosing Ocaml and how it worked out.

Yaron Minsky
on Sep 06, 2014

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Erjang - With the JVM Under the Hood

Kresten Krab Thorup introduces Erjang, an Erlang VM based on the JVM, disclosing some of its internal workings and challenges building it.

Kresten Krab Thorup
on Aug 24, 2014

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A Day in the Life of a Functional Data Scientist

Richard Minerich explains how ideas and tools from functional programming can save time, prevent subtle mistakes in data science, and how he incorporates them into his everyday workflow.

Richard Minerich
on Aug 17, 2014

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Planning for Overload

Fred Hebert introduces two strategies for handling overload -load-shedding and back-pressure- along with different ways to make them work in Erlang focusing on the importance of planning for overload.

Fred Hebert
on Aug 12, 2014

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Scaling HTTP Connections

Benoît Chesneau discusses creating, scaling and reusing HTTP connections, summarizing techniques used to reduce memory usage in Erlang and ways to handle massive client connections efficiently.

Benoît Chesneau
on Aug 12, 2014

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10 Billion a Day, 100 Milliseconds Per: Monitoring Real-Time Bidding at AdRoll

Brian Troutwine shares insight on using Erlang for a highly concurrent and very low latency bidding system implemented by Adroll.

Brian Troutwine
on Aug 03, 2014

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