Workshops:March 10-11, 2016
Track: Modern Native Languages
Location:
- Mountbatten, 6th flr.
Day of week:
- Wednesday
The 21st century is 15 years old and yet mainstream native languages are still seemingly stuck in the 1970s or 1980s. Time for a new crop of languages that tackles the challenges of our time:
- Concurrency and parallelism - We'll get more cores, not necessarily faster cores
- State management - Mutable shared state clashes with concurrency
- Security - How are buffer overflows still a thing in 2015?
- Efficiency - Code that's done in less time lets the CPU shut down sooner and keeps the battery happy
In this track we'll show how modern native languages help achieve these goals without VMs.
by Sylvan Clebsch
CTO @Causality
Pony is a new actor-model language that's statically typed and ahead-of-time compiled (using LLVM), with a fully concurrent garbage collector and a data-race free type system. But this talk isn't about language features - it's about using Pony in a fintech environment to build high-performance tools.
What are some good design patterns?
What's the worst thing you can do to the Pony garbage collector?
What's the real cost of a message send?
We'll cover the runtime...
by Felix Klock
Research Engineer @Mozilla
Rust is a new programming language that provides memory safety and data-race freedom while offering efficiency and low-level control comparable to that of C and C++. Rust allows for safe systems programming, including concurrent threads with shared data.
I will describe the core concepts of the Rust language (ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes), as well as the tools beyond the compiler for open-source software component distribution (cargo, crates.io).
These pieces, along with...
by Peter Bourgon
Engineer @Weaveworks and Maintainer of Go Kit
Go has emerged from its infancy, and is now one of the preëminent languages in the server, microservice, and infrastructure space. This talk collects lessons learned from 6 years of professional Go development, highlighting the idioms, design patterns, and practices that have proven themselves at scale — and many that haven't. Attendees will leave with a stronger understanding of what good Go code looks like, and with strategies to improve their own Go projects.
by Alex Blewitt
Author of Swift Essentials
Swift was released as open-source in December 2015 and has continued to grow since its release. Now that Swift is available on Linux as well as OSX and iOS, what can you do with it? In this presentation, we’ll look at the open-source project, how applications and libraries can be built for both platforms, the differences between the different builds and how Swift works under the hood.
by Richard Kasperowski
Author of The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness
Open Space
by Patrick Bohrer
Distinguished Engineer @IBMCloud
by Chris Bailey
STSM, IBM Runtime Support, Monitoring and Diagnostics
The Swift language continues to grow and is now one of the most popular mobile programming languages. Since the introduction of open source Swift for Linux, IBM has been enabling the language on the IBM Cloud.
During this session, we will present a preview of our latest cloud deployment configurations, Swift package-based cloud services, and tools integration. In addition, the IBM Swift Sandbox continues to be the place to get a taste of Swift running on the cloud. Come join this...
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Monday, 7 March
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Back to Java
What to expect in Java 9 and Spring 5
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Stream Processing @ Scale
Big data, fast-moving data. Practical implementation lessons on Real-time Data
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DevOps & CI/CD
Lessons/stories on optimizing the deployment pipeline
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Head-to-Tail Functional Languages
Free-range Monads, Tackling immutability, tales from production, and more...
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Architecting for Failure
Your system will fail. Take control before it takes you with it
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21st Century Culture from Geeks on the Ground
New ways to organise technology companies and workplace culture
Tuesday, 8 March
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
In-depth technical case studies from giants like: Microsoft, Netflix, Google, Twitter, and more...
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Close to the Metal
Get efficiency back into your code, concepts like: cache efficient algorithm and lock free data structures
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Containers (in production)
Real-world lessons on scalability and reliability in production container deployments
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Modern CS in the real world
Real-world Industry adoption of modern CS ideas
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Security, Incident Response & Fraud Detection
Master-level classes on building security into your system and responding to incidents when things go wrong.
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Optimizing You
Keeping life in balance is always a challenge. Learning lifehacks
Wednesday, 9 March
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Disrupting Finance
Technology advances in finance (blockchain, P2P, Machine Learning, API's)
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Modern Native Languages
Modern native languages: Safe efficiency with Go, Rust, Swift
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Full Stack Javascript
Level up Javascript with topics like Angular, React/ReactNative, Node, Mongo/Couch/Other, Falcor, GraphQL, etc
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Data Science & Machine Learning Methods
A developer's data science and machine learning toolkit
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Microservices for Mega-Architectures
Practical lessons on Microservices success.
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Modern Agile Development
Revisiting Agile today and tackling challenges we are seeing in the wild
