Leverage vs. Autonomy in a Large Software System
Explore the balance between centralization and decentralization in large-scale software development, examining Twitter's strategies and introducing Strato, a new serverless platform for enhanced engineer productivity.
All the Languages Together
Explore the challenges and solutions for building multi-language software systems, focusing on language interoperability, safety, and toolchain improvements for seamless integration.
Architecting for Active-Active Resiliency in the Cloud
Explore multi-regional active-active resiliency in cloud architecture, covering data replication, availability calculations, and design patterns for maximizing service uptime and minimizing failures.
Machine Learning Failures - For Art
Explore hilarious machine learning failures in art, from cookie recipes to pony classification, and learn how to deliberately create amusing AI mistakes.
Privacy - The Last Stand for Fair Algorithms
Explore privacy's role in creating fair algorithms and ethical machine learning models. Learn about privacy-preserving techniques and their impact on data science and product design.
A Frontend Server, Front to Back
Explore the implementation of Fitbit's frontend server, covering queueing theory, software design, GC tuning, and Netty library, with practical insights on building fast, stable, scalable, and extensible systems.
End-to-End Encryption - Behind the Scenes
Explore end-to-end encryption protocols, their inner workings, and applications beyond messaging. Learn about key exchange, forward secrecy, and authentication in secure communication.
Knowing What You See - Let's Talk About Front-end Consistency
Explore techniques for maintaining consistency in interactive data visualizations, addressing asynchrony challenges and applying database transaction principles to enhance user experience.
Building Secure Systems in Haskell
Explore building secure web applications using Haskell's LIO and Hails framework, focusing on data privacy protection through language-level information flow control and declarative policy specification.
Project Jigsaw in JDK 9 - Modularity Comes To Java
Explore Project Jigsaw in JDK 9, its impact on Java modularity, and how it affects application development, security, and deployment. Learn about module fundamentals and new accessibility rules.
Diocletian, Constantine, Bedouin Sayings, and Network Defense
Explore ancient Roman military strategies and their surprising parallels to modern network defense, offering innovative approaches to cybersecurity challenges.
Exploring Conversational Interfaces with Amazon Alexa and Go
Explore conversational interfaces with Amazon Alexa, focusing on platform diversity, best practices, and creating Alexa Skills using Go. Learn about major players and their strengths in this emerging field.
Powering Interactive Data Applications at Scale
Explore Druid's architecture for powering interactive analytic applications with millisecond query latencies, comparing it to traditional databases and key/value stores for OLAP use cases.
Modelica - Component Oriented Modeling of Physical Systems
Explore component-oriented modeling of physical systems using Modelica, a language for simulating complex devices in various industries. Learn about compilation processes and algorithms.
Is It A Bug Or Is It A Story
Investigative data journalist shares insights on analyzing big data, focusing on outliers to uncover bugs or unique user behaviors, using examples from Iraq War Logs and FIFA Files.
Designing Cypher - A Graph Query Language
Explore the journey of designing Cypher, a graph query language for Neo4j. Learn about language design principles, implementation challenges, and lessons learned in creating a specialized yet expressive tool.
Reasoning About Performance - In the Context of Search
Explore performance estimation for search engines using back-of-the-envelope calculations. Learn about core algorithms, practical considerations, and the surprising effectiveness of "obsolete" technologies in modern search.
Agility and Robustness - Clojure Spec
Explore Clojure's spec library for robust, flexible programming. Learn declarative, predicative approaches for data validation, testing, and documentation to enhance code quality and maintainability.
Storytelling with Your Data
Explore data visualization techniques using Angular2, ngAnimate, and RxJS to create interactive, high-performance storytelling experiences at 60fps.
Ceptre - A Language for Modeling Generative Interactive Systems
Explore Ceptre, a formal language for modeling interactive systems, game design, and program rules, with applications in game development and balance evaluation.
An Overview of Probabilistic Programming
Explore probabilistic programming through BayesDB, Picture, and Venture platforms. Learn about Bayesian databases, 3D scene perception, and general-purpose probabilistic computing for data analysis and AI applications.