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Lead the Revolution by Being Ordinary
Katherine Kirk shares real life, practical steps and techniques that she's successfully used to help solve tough tech people issues with teams, executives and divisions.
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Distributed Consensus: Making the Impossible Possible
Heidi Howard explores how to construct resilient distributed systems on top of unreliable components. Howard discusses which algorithms are best suited to different situations.
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Hunting Unicorns - The Quest for Modern Agile
Alex Wilson and Vikki Read talk about their XP journey and how they have evolved from basic XP into a high functioning lean product development environment.
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Distributed Systems in Practice, in Theory
Aysylu Greenberg discusses some of the new architectural patterns from systems she has worked on at Google and the related work that provides insights into the motivations behind them.
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Meet the Node.js Antipatterns
Igor Soarez and Pedro Teixeira focus on the strengths of JavaScript in the enterprise by trying to isolate the antipatterns that are slowly beginning to emerge.
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Build, Ship and Run Unikernels
Justin Cormack talks about the Docker unikernels build, ship and run pipelines and how the changes they are seeing lead to unikernels in production.
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Observe, Enhance, & Control: VMs to Containers
Mitchell Hashimoto takes a look at VMs, which solution architectures worked there, and discusses why these architectures are no longer adequate and what are the solutions in a containerized world.
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Rust: Systems Programming for Everyone
Felix Klock describes the core concepts of the Rust language (ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes), as well as the tools beyond the compiler for open source component distribution (cargo, crates.io).
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Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: Optimizing Mind & Body
Phil Nash talks about one developer’s experience learning to live a healthier and happier life and some of the solutions he came up with to make meaningful changes in his life.
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Patterns in a Containerized World
Matthias Luebken gives an overview of typical patterns and best practices that he has seen in developing, deploying and operating applications that leverage containers.
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Techniques for a Successful Agile Transformation
Steve McDonald and Mark Landeryou talk about the dangers of taking shortcuts when the going gets tough and the level of discipline required to get the most out of adopting Agile.
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Scala, ECS, and Docker: Delayed Execution @Coursera
Brennan Saeta talks about aspects of Coursera’s architecture that enable them to rapidly build sophisticated features for their learning platform, the use of containers and security-related issues.