Software for Programming Cells
Exploring software for programming cells, including molecular circuits and genetic devices. Demonstrates a tool chain for characterizing genetic parts and compiling molecular programs into DNA.
Real-World Datomic - An Experience Report
Explore Datomic's architecture, indexing, and real-world implementation through a production system case study, emphasizing schema, query behavior, and transactor characteristics.
How Does Text Become Data
Explore concept-based text understanding and its applications in NLP. Learn to build models of human thinking for search engines, recommender systems, and classifiers using practical examples and code.
Philosophy of Scala Macros
Explore Scala macros' evolution, from def macros to advanced features like type macros and annotations. Learn about their design, use cases, and impact on metaprogramming in Scala.
Spores - Distributable Functions in Scala
Exploring Scala's advancements in distributed programming: Spores for mobile functional behavior and a new pickling framework for efficient serialization and deserialization.
Continuations on the Web and in Your OS
Explore delimited continuations in web and OS contexts, covering basic concepts, traditional web applications, and advanced techniques in network servers and concurrent simulations.
Add ALL the Things - Abstract Algebra Meets Analytics
Explore how abstract algebra principles apply to analytics systems, enhancing distributed and real-time aggregation efficiency through group theory laws and practical coding examples.
Make Your Mobile Apps Accessible to All
Learn to make iOS and Android apps accessible for users with disabilities, covering accessibility libraries, implementation techniques, and creating accessibility services for existing apps.
Concurrency and Parallel Computing in JavaScript
Explore concurrency and parallel computing in JavaScript, covering actors, futures, and throughput computing in browsers. Learn techniques for leveraging modern parallel hardware in web development.
Programming a 144-Computer Chip to Minimize Power
Explore ultra-low power computing with a 144-core chip. Learn programming techniques to minimize energy consumption, optimize instruction execution, and leverage asynchronous architecture for efficient computing.
Raft - The Understandable Distributed Protocol
Explore Raft, a new distributed protocol designed for real-world applications and understandability. Learn its key concepts, implementation, and advantages over Paxos.
Sync is the Future of Mobile Data
Explore the future of mobile data synchronization using NoSQL document models for offline-capable applications. Learn implementation techniques and contribute to open-source projects in this field.
Web Apps in Clojure and ClojureScript with Pedestal
Explore Pedestal for building collaborative Clojure/ClojureScript apps. Learn dataflow, pure functions, and state management to create complex applications with simplified code.
High Availability at Braintree
Explore high availability strategies at Braintree, including traffic pausing, rolling deploys, load balancing, and error handling, to minimize downtime and maintain seamless payment processing.
Why Ruby Isn't Slow
Explore Ruby's performance challenges and solutions through Topaz VM, addressing method dispatch, constant lookups, and allocation issues for improved speed and efficiency.
Getting Pushy - Pushing Data From Server to Browser
Explore server-push techniques for dynamic web apps, focusing on Lift framework's approach and its application in Clojure/ClojureScript/AngularJS projects.
Thinking DSLs for Massive Visualization
Explore domain-specific languages for parallel computing and program synthesis in massive interactive visualizations, focusing on Superconductor's innovative approach to browser-based data visualization.
Dart for the Language Enthusiast
Explore Dart's unique features with language enthusiast Bob Nystrom, covering laziness, higher-order functions, asynchrony, and abstraction in this engaging talk for programmers curious about Google's browser language.
Distributing the Go Language and Runtime
Explore Go Circuit, an extension to Go for distributed systems. Learn about spawning remote goroutines, simplified cloud application development, and powerful lifecycle maintenance tools.
JavaScript for Science
Exploring the intersection of JavaScript and scientific research, highlighting challenges in scientific software development and proposing solutions for better collaboration between developers and scientists.
Partitions for Everyone
Explores network partitions in distributed systems, revealing design limits and bugs. Demonstrates challenges in building reliable distributed services through real-world testing of popular systems.