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Testing Programmable Infrastructure with Ruby
With the rise of DevOps, programmable infrastructure is reaching widespread adoption. However, although automated testing of software is becoming ever more common, the same cannot be said with testing the target deployment environment itself. With microservices making our deployments more and...
Deep Learning @Google Scale: Smart Reply in Inbox
Anjuli will describe the algorithmic, scaling and deployment considerations involved in an extremely prominent application of cutting-edge deep learning in a user-facing product: the Smart Reply feature of Google Inbox.
Creating Space To Be Awesome
Bringing agile approaches into how we manage people and lead teams can have wonderful, far-reaching impact. How do we get the most out of these new ways of working and also ensure that we create an inclusive environment where all types of people can be successful? In this session we’ll take a...
Develop Your Development Experience
Developers don’t get paid to write code. We deliver working software in production. How does your team turn source code into running software? And how do you make sure it stays working? If it’s like my experiences, the process is too intricate for words. Instead, let’s code it. How quickly...
How Condé Nast Succeeds by a Culture That Embraces Failure
Systems architectures are increasingly diverse to serve the growing demands for scalability, fault tolerance, isolation, and extensibility. But the compromise is ever complex software to operate and maintain often with no single shared view of entire design. This is especially true with the...
The Good the Bad the Ugly: Making Teams Perform Better
A case study on how a team of engineers and data scientists worked together for a year and became high performing by embracing change, improving day to day practices, breaking the walls between disciplines and overcoming many communication (and other!) challenges together.
Interviews
Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad?
How you you describe the persona and level of the target audience?
Main target is developers who code every day. Primarily targeting Java developers, particularly those who are busy getting on with actual work and may not have had time to stay up to date on what's happened with recent versions of Java (8, 9) and what may be coming soon (Java 10, 11). Also relevant for tech leads and other people who...
Read Full InterviewWebAssembly (And the Death of JavaScript?)
What is the focus of your work today?
I’m the Technology Director of Scott Logic, a UK-based consultancy that provides bespoke software solutions for our financial services clients. The main focus of my day-to-day work is meeting with clients, understanding their problems, and finding ways in which they can capitalise on new tools and technologies.
Read Full InterviewBeyond the Distributed Monolith: Rearchitecting the Big Data Platform
What are you doing now?
I am a Principal Systems Engineer at the BBC, and within the BBC I work in the area that deals with our personalizations in services. What this means is that when you sign up with an account with the BBC, then you enter all this personalization features and you can get show recommendations, you can follow shows, stay up to date by...
Read Full InterviewHow the HotSpot and Graal JVMs execute Java Code
What is the work you're doing today?
I work at Morgan Stanley as a Java developer and architect. My main work is around APIs and API gateways. That includes working on architectural components like our cloud strategy, building API infrastructure and all kinds of Java related projects along the way. Besides focusing on the architecture side of things I'm still actively...
Read Full InterviewModular Java Development in Action
What's the focus of the work that you do at Luminis today?
I work as a software architect at Luminis, and I've been developing Java-based applications for more than 10 years. Currently I'm working on a system that revolves around personalized learning for Dutch secondary schools. We're building web applications and matching back-ends that do data analysis, all in order to improve education. We...
Read Full InterviewReinventing npmjs.com
What is the focus of your work today?
Developing npm’s websites and services.
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