Technology Presentations, Interviews and Webinars

High Performance, Low Latency, Scalability

• Priming Java for Speed at Market Open - 3 August 2014, Gil Tene
• Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier - 26 Mar 2013
• React 2014 : Martin Thompson - Responding in a Timely Manner - 8 April 2014, Martin Thompson
• Java Marshalling: A Performance Approach - 5 Feb 2014, Todd Montgomery
• Top 10 - Performance Folklore - 29 Jan 2014, Martin Thompson
• Practicing at the Cutting Edge: Learning and Unlearning about Java Performance - 21 Jan 2014, Martin Thompson
• It's all a numbers game -- the dirty little secret of scalable systems - Martin Thompson, 20 Mar 2013
• Martin Thompson Discusses Reactive System Design - 2 Dec 2013, Martin Thompson
• Understanding the Disruptor, a Beginner's Guide to Hardcore Concurrency -Trisha Gee & Mike Barker
• Martin Thompson on Low Latency Coding and Mechanical Sympathy - 7 June 2013, Martin Thompson
• LMAX - How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency - 16 Dec 2010
• Trisha Gee from LMAX Discusses Concurrent Java Programming, Agile, and Diversity in IT - 18 May 2012
• Cliff Click on In-Memory Processing, 0xdata H20, Efficient Low Latency Java and GCs - 10 Jan 2014, Cliff Click
• Nathan Marz on Storm, Immutability in the Lambda Architecture, Clojure - 6 April 2014
• Runaway Complexity in Big Data, and a Plan to Stop It - 25 Oct 2012, Nathan Marz
• Everything I Ever Learned about JVM Performance Tuning @twitter
• Visualising Java Garbage Collection - Ben Evans, 19 April 2013
• Benchmarking JVM Concurrency Options for Java, Scala and Akka - Michael Slinn, 26 April 2012
• Anomaly Detection, Fault Tolerance and Anticipation Patterns
• Making the Web Faster at Google and Beyond
• Serkan Piantino on Scaling Facebook - 20 Aug 2012
• Scaling Pinterest - 26 Mar 2013
• GTAC 2013: Testing Systems at Scale @Twitter - 29 Apr 2013, James Walrdop

Continuous Delivery and Testing

• Jez Humble on Continuous Delivery - Berlin (Full) - 26 Oct 2012
• Continuous Delivery at 7digital - An Experience Report - May 25, 2014, Chris O’Dell
• Is TDD Dead? - 9 May 2014

Security

• Creating Self Defending Applications to Repel Attackers - 16 Mar 2014, Michael Coates

Scala Programming

• Martin Odersky: Scala with Style - 2 July 2013, Martin Odersky
• The Trouble With Types - 28 Oct 2013, Martin Odersky
• Scala in 2018: SF Scala panel with Rod Johnson - November 2013
• What's New in Scala 2.10 - Martin Odersky
• Simplicity in Scala Design - Bill Venners, 11 Mar 2013
• Pacific Northwest Scala 2013 Twitter: Taking Hadoop Realtime with Summingbird - 28 Oct 2013
• Deleting Code at Nokia - 19 June 2013
• ScalaDays 2014 - Parleys.com
• ScalaDays 2013 - Parleys.com
• Guerilla Scala Programming at eBay - 18 June 2013, Alex Cozzi
• North East Scala Symposium 2012 (nescala)
• How to Write a Functional Program with IO, Mutation, and other effects - Paul Chiusano, 9 April 2012
• What’s New in Scala 2.10 (Marakana) - Adriaan Moors, 9 May 2013
• Rúnar Bjarnason on Scalaz, Lenses, Functional Programming and Scala - 18 July 2012
• Scala Monads: Declutter Your Code With Monadic Design - Dan Rosen, MarakanaTechTV, 9 Feb 2012
• Contravariance is the Dual of Covariance - Eric Meijer, 30 April 2014
• JVM Evolution for Scala @ Oracle Santa Clara - 7 Mar 2013, Paul Philips
• JVMLS 2013: Scala War Stories - 26 Aug 2013, Paul Philips
• FOSDEM 2009 Scala - A Scalable Language
• Building a Data Science Platform in Scala - 5 Mar 2013, John A. De Goes, Precog
• Premature Optimization in Scala - 13 March 2013, Precog, Erik Osheim
• Functional Design Patterns
• Philip Wadler on Functional Programming
• SBT Introduction & Cookbook for Scala
• O'Reilly OSCON Java 2011: Martin Odersky, "Working Hard to Keep It Simple" - Martin Odersky, 2011
• Scala: Simplifying Development at guardian.co.uk - Graham Tackley, 21 Aug 2012
• How We (Mostly) Moved From Java To Scala - Graham Tackley (Web Platform Team Lead), 27 Mar 2012
• Dick Wall on Scala, DI with SubCut, Scala Compiler Plugins, Java's Future
• Miles Sabin on Dependent Types with Scala, Shapeless, Scala Macros
• Lance Walton on Scala in the Enterprise - 2 July 2012
• Functional Architecture - 29 Aug 2012, Phil Trelford
• Numeric Programming in Scala with Spire
• Cake Patterns
• Functional Programming at Facebook (Erlang) - 14 Sep 2011

Functional Reactive Programming

• Curing Your Event Processing Blues with Rx - 25 Nov 2013, Donna Malayeri, Matthew Podwysocki
• RxJava: Reactive Extensions in Scala
• CUFP 2013: Jafar Husain: End to end Reactive Programming at Netflix

Akka

• Akka Typed Channels: Implementing Type Calculations as Macros - 8 Mar 2013, Roland Kuhn
• Real-World Akka Recipes - ScalaDays 2013
• Webinar: Spray on Akka with Mathias Doenitz - Around November 2013
• Spray: REST on Akka from the Northeast Scala Symposium - 16 April 2012, Mathias Doenitz
• Scaling out with Akka Actors - 1 Nov 2013, Joshua Suereth
• Pacific Northwest Scala 2013 Akka in Production: Our Story by Evan Chan - 27 Oct 2013, Evan Chan, Ooyala, http://www.slideshare.net/EvanChan2/akka-inproductionpnw-scala2013
• Up, Up, and Out: Scaling Software with Akka - Viktor Klang - 4 Feb 2013, Viktor Klang
• Up And Out Scaling Software With Akka - Jonas Bonér - 3 Apr 2013
• Composable Futures With Akka 2.0 - 28 May 2012, Michael Slinn

Play Framework

• Optimizing Play for Production - 11 Dec 2013
• The Play Framework at LinkedIn: Productivity and Performance at Scale - 26 June 2013
• Non Blocking, Composable Reactive Web Programming with Iteratees in Play 2
• Scala, Functional Programming and Play 2.0 - Sadek Drobi, 28 June 2012

Scala Slick

• About Slick vs. ORM - June 2013
• Scala's Slick: A Library For Functional Database Access - May 2013 approx
• Other Slick Presentations

Clojure

• Simple Made Easy - Rich Hickey - 20 Oct 2011, Rich Hickey
• The Language of the System - Rich Hickey - 2013?, Rich Hickey
• Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure -
• Clojure core.async - 22 Nov 2013, Rich Hickey
• Real World Clojure - Doing Boring Stuff With An Exciting Language - 30 July 2012
• Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database - 23 Aug 2012, Rich Hickey
• SkillsMatter - Clojure Web Development - Clojure eXchange 2012, James Reeves

ElasticSearch, Kibana and LogStash

• bbuzz: Clinton Gormley "Getting down and dirty with Elasticsearch" - 19 June 2013
• Shay Banon - ElasticSearch: Big Data, Search, and Analytics - 9 Jan 2013
• ElasticSearch in Production: lessons learned - 30 Jan 2013
• More Logstash Awesome - Jordan Sissel - PuppetConf 2013 - Sep 2013, Jordan Sissel (Kibana demo)

Cassandra

Cassandra Resources

• Cassandra Meet Up Presentations, YouTube Playlist
• PlanetCassandra Community Webinars
• Datastax Training
• Data Modelling PlayList

Cassandra, How To

• Cassandra Community Webinar | The Data Model is Dead, Long Live the Data Model (Part 1 of 3) - 3 May 2013
• Cassandra Community Webinar | Become a Super Modeler (Part 2) - 20 May 2013
• C* Summit 2013: The World's Next Top Data Model (Part 3) - 2 Aug 2013
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdJlsOZVGwM (audience presentation) - 26 June 2013
• Cassandra Community Webinar | Understanding How CQL3 Maps to Cassandra's Internal Data Structure, http://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/understanding-how-cql3-maps-to-cassandras-internal-data-structure, 15 Nov 2013, John Berryman, Opensource connections
• Cassandra Community Webinar | Back to Basics with CQL3 - 24 Jan 2013
• Cassandra Data Modeling - Practical Considerations @ Netflix - 18 Sep 2013, Nitish Korla
• Cassandra Community Webinar | Is My App A Good Fit for Apache Cassandra? - 30 Oct 2012
• Cassandra Community Webinar | Creating Your First Java App

Moving to Cassandra

• NYC* 2013 - "A Big Data Quadfecta: Cassandra, Storm, Elastic Search and Kafka" - 8 Apr 2013
• C* Summit 2013: Hindsight is 20/20. MySQL to Cassandra - 27 June 2013, Michael Kjellman
• Cassandra Community Webinar | MySQL to Cassandra - What I Wish I'd Known
• Cassandra Community Webinar | From MongoDB To Cassandra Architectural Lessons - 25 Nov 2013, Shift
• Cassandra Community Webinar | Shift: Real World Migration from MongoDB to Cassandra - 6 Sep 2013
• C* Summit 2013: Jonathan Ellis Keynote

Cassandra Presentations

• Running Netflix on Cassandra in the Cloud - 2013?, Adrian Cockcroft
• C* Summit 2013: How Not to Use Cassandra - 26 June 2013, Axel Liljencrantz, Spotify Developer
• C* Summit 2013: Practice Makes Perfect: Extreme Cassandra Optimisation
• Cassandra Community Webinar | Cassandra Architecture, Development and Operations - 25 Oct 2013
• Real-time Analytics using Cassandra, Spark and Shark at Ooyala by Evan Chan - 22 Jan 2014
• Community Webinar | Large nodes with Cassandra - 28 Feb 2014, Aaron Morton

MongoDB

• Transactions without Transactions - 9 Feb 2012, Richard Kreuter and Kyle Banker
• MongoDB Large-scale Data Centric Architectures - Kenny Gorman, 9 Apr 2013
• Why I Chose MongoDB for guardian.co.uk - 11 Aug 2011, Mat Wall (Lead Software Architect)
• Scaling with MongoDB

NoSQL

• Introduction to NoSQL by Martin Fowler - 19 Feb 2013, Martin Fowler
• Database Superstar Panel of 10gen-MongoDB CTO, NuoDB CEO, Couchbase CEO - 6 May 2013
• Redefining Fast Big Data with NoSQL and Flash SSDs - Aerospike
• Data Modeling for NoSQL
• The Past, Present, and Future of NoSQL
• ThoughtWorks Event: Martin Fowler - Software Design in the 21st Century
• NoSQL at Twitter
• Big Data Architectures at Facebook
• Dynamo Is Not Just for Datastores

Go Language

• Rails Conf 2013: What Ruby Developers can Learn from Go - 22 May 2013, Lionel Barrow
• Why Node and Scala will dry up: Go will drink their milkshake - April 2013, Paul Dix
• E2E: Erik Meijer and Robert Griesemer - Going Go - 2013
• Let's Go Further: Build Concurrent Software using the Go Programming Language
• OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void" - Rob Pike
• Google I/O 2011: Writing Web Apps in Go - Rob Pike
• Go at Google

API

• REST+JSON API Design - Best Practices for Developers - 2 Oct 2012, Les Hazlewood, Stormpath
• API Design Best Practices (Apiary) - 21 June 2013
• How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters - Neil Mansilla, Client API evangelist
• Generating Developer Interest and Activity - Mashery - Jan 2013
• Introducing the BBC's Linked Data Platform and APIs - 29 April 2013, David Rogers
• Guardian News and Media: Sharath Bulusu, Group Product Manager - 2012 from Mashery Pro
• The Cisco Support API - BAPI San Francisco Oct 2 Martha van Berkel, Cisco - Late 2012
• Evolution of the Netflix API - 11 Dec 2013, Ben Christensen

Forms Design, Responsive Design and Mobile

• [Burn your select tags - EpicFEL 2014] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkMCQR4TpY) - Alice Bartlett, 24 Oct 2014
• [Conversions@Google 2014, Luke Wroblewski - Part 1] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-FMTPsgy_Y)
• [Conversions@Google 2014, Luke Wroblewski - Part 2 (Web Forms)] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmKMz3Fg76M)

Web Apps and JavaScript

• Douglas Crockford: Monads and Gonads (YUIConf Evening Keynote)
• Javascript Performance with Stoyan Stefanov
• ES6 and ES7 the future of Javascript - Brendan Eich, 3 Feb 2015
• The State of JavaScript - Brendan Eich, 19 Oct 2012
• Seamless iFrames: The Future, Today! - Marakana - Ben Vinegar
• Faruk Ates on Modernizr, Shims and Polyfills
• Rise of the Web App
• Broken Promises of HTML5, and What's Next? - 1 Nov 2012

AngularJS

• AngularJS 2.0 features and beyond - Rob Eisenberg, 19 June 2015
• AngularJS Fundamentals In 60-ish Minutes - 12 April 2013, Dan Wahlin
• AngularJS
• AngularJS 1.2 and Beyond - 11 June 2013
• AngularJS & D3: Directives for Visualizations - 22 Jan 2014
• AngularJS MTV Meetup: Best Practices (2012/12/11)
• Re-imagining the Browser with AngularJS
• Bringing Angular Apps to Life with Animation by Miško Hevery
• CRUD Apps with Angular & Breeze - AngularJS Mountain View (Mountain View, CA)
• AngularJS - YouTube

Node.js

• HTML5 Lessons from LinkedIn using Node.js
• Ryan Dahl - Node Summit 2012 - theCUBE
• Node.JS Is Stupid And If You Use It So Are You
• Operating Node.js in Production, with Bryan Cantrill

Computing History

• Steve Jobs - The Lost Interview -29 Apr 2013
• Computer Pioneers - Pioneer Computers Part 1
• Computer Pioneers - Pioneer Computers Part 2
• Fred Brooks, Jr.: Birth of the 360 Project - CHM Revolution
• John McCarthy (1927-2011): Artificial Intelligence (complete) - March 1989

Miscellaneous

• The Worst Programming Language Ever - 2 July 2015, Mark Rendle, InfoQ
• Technical Debt, Process and Culture
• Kafka and Storm Stream Processing Presentation - 9 May 2013
• Dumb and Dumber: How smart is your monitoring data - 6 June 2013, Jim Hirschauer, from AppDynamics
• Fightng Bitrot with your Mind - October 2013, Viktor Klang
• Taking PHP Seriously - 5 Nov 2013, Keith Adams
• Building Polyglot Projects - 10 July 2013, Kurt Schrader
• Perfect Workflow in Sublime Text 2
• Timelines at Scale, Twitter
• DevOps to NoOps: 10 Cloud Services You Should Be Using
• Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Meta-Programming Java
• Sonar Quality Dashboard 3.0: New Commercial Editions And The Developer's Cockpit
• To Java SE 8, and Beyond!
• GTAC 2011: Opening Keynote Address - Test is Dead
• Google Apps' Identity Crisis
• Gabriel Grant on stack.io. Node.js and Django
• Livin' on the edge: Netflix edge architecture - 18 June 2013, Adrian Cole
• Large Scala Crawling With Apache Nutch - 2013
• Apache Lucene : Then and Now - Feb 2014, Doug Cutting
• Apache Tika 1.0 Allows Easy Text Extraction for Java
• Hazelcast: Scalable Data Structures - 30 Jan 2013