Dealing with growing pains without sacrificing sustainability
Balancing optimization efforts across processes, technologies, and teams.
Ideas, insights, and strategies for today’s software engineers.
Ideas
Where programming meets the real world
Greg Brown's new book, Programming Beyond Practices, is a thoughtful exploration of how software gets developed.
Highlights from OSCON in London 2016
Watch highlights covering open source, open data, architecture, the business of open source, and more. From OSCON in London 2016.
Are microservices for you? You might be asking the wrong question.
Deciding whether to use microservices starts with understanding what isn’t working for you now.
2 major reasons why modern C++ is a performance beast
Use smart pointers and move semantics to supercharge your C++ code base.
20 Python libraries you aren't using (but should)
Discover lesser-known Python libraries that are easy to install and use, cross-platform, and applicable to more than one domain.
Configuring a continuous delivery pipeline in Jenkins
Learn the basics for setting up a continuous delivery pipeline in Jenkins, from modeling the pipeline to integrating the software.
Webcast: Easy persistence with Spring
This free webcast provides a quick lesson on accessing, storing, and updating relational data. Oct. 26, 2pm PT.
Learning
Analyzing and visualizing data with F#
Learn how to get more out of your data with real-world examples using the powerful F# programming language.
Real-World Maintainable Software
Abraham Marín-Pérez explains how 10 coding guidelines can work in a real-life environment, considering the typical issues, together with the hidden traps that programmers can fall into when trying to apply them.
Runnable code
Introduction to designing for scalability with Erlang/OTP
Erlang/OTP is unique among programming languages and frameworks in the breadth, depth, and consistency of the features it provides for scalable, fault-tolerant systems with requirements for high availability.
Runnable code
Ten steps to Linux survival
Learn Linux diagnostic and recovery tasks so you can jump in and fix a system problem when your site goes down.
Video
Thinking in coroutines
Lukasz Langa uses asyncio source code to explain the event loop, blocking calls, coroutines, tasks, futures, thread pool executors, and process pool executors.
RxJava for Android app development
RxJava is a powerful library, but it has a steep learning curve. Learn RxJava by seeing how it can make asynchronous data handling in Android apps much cleaner and more flexible.
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Events
Software Architecture Conference San Francisco
November 13-16, 2016
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA
Engineering the Future of Software
Sessions
Session archive
Open, closed, and demon haunted: An Internet of Things that act like inkjet printers
As the Internet of Things expands to include computers in our bodies and computers we put our bodies into, the question of open and closed takes on a new urgency.
Crossing the river by feeling the stones
Simon Wardley examines the issue of situational awareness and explains how it applies to the world of open source.
Incremental revolution: What Docker learned from the open source fire hose
Solomon Hykes explores the container ecosystem and shares lessons learned from managing successful open source projects.
Keynote performance by Sammus
Rapper, singer, producer, and songwriter Sammus performs at OSCON in Austin 2016.
People
Mark Bates
Mark Bates is the founder and chief architect of the Boston, MA based consulting company, Meta42 Labs. Mark spends his days focusing on new application development and consulting for his clients. At night he writes books, raises kids, and occasionally he forms a band and “tries to make it.” Ma...
Henrik Engstrom
After graduating with a M.Sc degree in Computer Science in 1998 at the Royal Institute of Technology Henrik Engström has been working as a consultant up until his Typesafe employment in 2011. Henrik ...
Carin Meier
Carin started off as a professional ballet dancer, studied Physics in college, and has been developing software for both the enterprise and entrepreneur ever since. She has a strong background in Ruby...
Topic image: Canal under construction, possibly the Bude Canal (circa 1840)
(source: Unknown Artist).
“Hacking through a project will get it done, but learning the why and how of a technology gives you information that will have an impact beyond the current situation.”
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