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Cognitive Services, Next Step in Creating Our Robot Overlords
Harold Pulcher discusses Cognitive Services, how to get started using them, and how to incorporate speech, image, and facial recognition into an application.
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Write Code for the Future You
Paul Gower discusses what it means to improve the quality of the code and offers practical advice towards improving it every day.
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Code Archaeology
David Mitchell shows how to create visualizations out of code: building a map for a large, legacy code base, creating visuals without drawing, and explaining a roadmap to bring code under control.
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Deconstructing TypeScript’s Type System
Spencer Schneidenbach discusses some of the advanced type features of TypeScript, including intersection types, type guards, nullable types, type aliases, string literals, and discriminated unions.
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Demystifying CORS: It’s Simpler Than You Think
Bill Parrott discusses CORS, what it is and how it works, why it is a crucial part of the modern web, what it enables, and what can’t be done.
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JavaScript Futures: ES2017 and the Road ahead
Jeff Strauss discusses some of the new and proposed features of JavaScript, explaining the ES.Next maturity stages and the TC39 review process.
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Using Webpack to Streamline Modern Web Application Packaging and Deployment
Kevin Grossnicklaus discusses how to get started with WebPack, how to configure Visual Studio for it and some of the best practices for utilizing it with Angular2 or React.
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Primer on Neural Networks
Chase Aucoin introduces neural networks with examples and simple breakdowns about the math involved in a way accessible to a large audience.
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Azure Service Fabric: Microservices Architecture Made Ridiculously Simple
Chase Aucoin explains using Microsoft Service Fabric to create microservices, demoing how to migrate existing services to Service Fabric.
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Introduction to DocumentDB
Brian Korzynski introduces DocumentDB, a document database offering on the Azure platform: what it is, how to use it, how much it costs, and how it compares to other cloud document database offerings.
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Elegant AWS Lambda
Mario Aquino demonstrates deploying services to the AWS Lambda platform, configuring these services, and interacting with them through logging and monitoring.
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But I Need a Database that _Scales_
Aaron Spiegel reviews common scaling techniques for both relational and NoSQL databases, discussing trade-offs of these techniques and their effect on query flexibility, transactions and consistency.