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ML in the Browser: Interactive Experiences with Tensorflow.js
Victor Dibia provides a friendly introduction to machine learning, covers concrete steps on how front-end developers can create their own ML models and deploy them as part of web applications.
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Security Culture: Why You Need One and How to Create It
Masha Sedova looks into techniques and cases studies of how to begin to shape an organization’s security culture to become more resilient and enable people-powered security.
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Optimizing Yourself: Neurodiversity in Tech
Elizabeth Schneider talks about the issues she has faced as an autistic individual in the industry. She also talks about ways that we can help others in the industry.
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Practical Change Data Streaming Use Cases with Apache Kafka & Debezium
Gunnar Morling discusses practical matters, best practices for running Debezium in production on and off Kubernetes, and the many use cases enabled by Kafka Connect's single message transformations.
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Holistic EdTech & Diversity
Antoine Patton discusses how he is leveraging his unique experiences to help solve the problems of people with similar experiences.
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Mapping the Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems
Cat Swetel uses Wardley Maps to examine the evolution of computing and explores potential futures.
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Build Your Own WebAssembly Compiler
Colin Eberhardt looks at some of the internals of WebAssembly, explores how it works “under the hood”, and looks at how to create a (simple) compiler that targets this runtime.
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Beyond Microservices: Streams, State and Scalability
Gwen Shapira talks about how microservices evolved in the last few years, based on experience gained while working with companies using Apache Kafka to update their application architecture.
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Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership
Aaron Blohowiak talks about Netflix’s model of the five levels of Ownership: Demonstration, Oversight, Observation, Execution and Vision. He shares his mistakes and what they have learned so far.
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Parsing JSON Really Quickly: Lessons Learned
Daniel Lemire talks about the lessons learned while writing the fast JSON parser, simdjson. One of the most important lessons is the importance of a nearly obsessive focus on performance.
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Coding Without Complexity
Ellen Chisa talks about complexity in software and the need to remove it as much as possible. One possibility is to remove something that is not absolutely needed as a way to reduce complexity.
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Evolution of Edge @Netflix
Vasily Vlasov reviews Netflix’s edge gateway ecosystem - multiple traffic gateways performing different functions deployed around the world.