Ruby on the Apple II - Adventures in Retro Programming
Explore Ruby on the Apple II, blending modern language with retro hardware. Learn about 8-bit computing, assembly programming, and the challenges of implementing Ruby on limited resources.
The Strange Loop Making Parasitic Insects Our Friends
Explore the intersection of ecology and functional programming, focusing on parasitic insects for biological pest control. Learn about population modeling and the open-source Python package Generations.
Automating Operations of a Global CDN
Explore Netflix's transition to an in-house global CDN, focusing on automation challenges, microservices architecture, and lessons learned in streamlining content delivery operations.
Myths and Metaphors of Open Source
Exploring myths and metaphors in open source software, examining their impact on perception, value, and funding models for a healthier ecosystem.
RGB to XYZ - The Science and History of Color
Explore the science, history, and perception of color, from early color spaces to modern applications. Gain insights into color theory and its practical use in design and technology.
Watch the Watcher - Facial Recognition and Police Oversight
Explore facial recognition technology's impact on police accountability and learn how OpenOversight uses it to empower citizens. Discover ethical and legal considerations in leveraging AI for community oversight.
Probabilistic Scripts for Automating Common-Sense Tasks
Explore probabilistic scripting for automating common-sense tasks, focusing on data cleaning. Learn how to encode domain knowledge and leverage probabilistic programming for efficient problem-solving.
Securing Cloud Applications and Their Credentials
Learn about securing containerized cloud apps, common security issues, and advanced tools for protecting cloud-based systems. Explore strategies to enhance container and scheduler-level security in modern architectures.
Formal Specification and Taming Other People's Tech
Explore formal specifications for everyday system design, untangling assumptions and reworking designs. Learn to apply this approach to common technologies like load balancers and message queues.
How to Build with Data Trust and Privacy as a Baseline
Explore tactical approaches for data stewardship, privacy, and trust in software development, including differential privacy techniques, in the face of growing regulations.
Learning to Love JavaScript
Explore JavaScript's global impact, its role in web development, and why its imperfections may have contributed to its widespread adoption and enduring popularity.
Community Driven Development
Explore community-driven development for social justice through an open-source project with New Sanctuary Coalition. Learn strategies for effective collaboration, sustainability, and building a tech community to support immigrant rights.
Zipline - A Declarative Feature Engineering Library
Explore Zipline, Airbnb's declarative feature engineering library for ML, reducing data preparation time from months to days and enabling efficient point-in-time correct feature generation.
Realtime Hybrid Reinforcement Learning at Scale
Explore hybrid reinforcement learning for next best action recommendations, addressing challenges in incomplete feedback, dynamic actions, complex objectives, and real-time decision-making at scale.
Performance Matters
Explore performance optimization challenges and innovative solutions with Stabilizer for sound evaluation and Coz, a causal profiler for pinpointing impactful optimizations in modern applications.
How Your Company Can Help Sustain Open Source
Explore strategies for corporate open source support, including funding initiatives, OSPOs, employee contributions, and measuring impact. Gain practical ideas to promote sustainability.
Explainable AI - The Apex of Human and Machine Learning
Explore the emerging field of Explainable AI, its importance in high-risk domains, and how it bridges the gap between human cognition and machine learning for more intuitive and understandable AI systems.
Computer Vision and NLP for Multi-Task Fashion Modeling
Explore multi-task learning for e-commerce attribute modeling using CNNs for images and BERT for text, with insights on ensemble architectures and training protocols.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Distributed Tracing
Explore distributed tracing in microservices: concepts, implementation patterns, and troubleshooting techniques. Learn about OpenTelemetry and its benefits for modern, polyglot environments.
Compacting the Uncompactable
Innovative memory allocation technique eliminating fragmentation in C/C++ programs, reducing memory consumption and improving performance without modifying existing code.
Correctness Proofs of Distributed Systems with Isabelle
Explore formal verification of distributed systems using Isabelle/HOL. Learn to prove correctness of algorithms, focusing on consensus and agreement properties in infinite state spaces.