Strange Loop Conference Courses

Understanding Microservices with Distributed Tracing

Explore distributed tracing for microservices: visualize request journeys, optimize performance, and gain system-wide insights. Learn implementation strategies and lessons from Lyft's adoption.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

PANOPTES - Open Source Exoplanet Discovery

Discover exoplanets using open-source PANOPTES: a distributed network of robotic telescopes combining cloud computing, affordable electronics, and innovative software.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Glitching Hour

Explore image formats, compression techniques, and data corruption to create artistic glitch effects. Learn how to manipulate digital imagery for unique visual aesthetics.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Building a Canary Testing Framework

Learn to build a canary testing framework for distributed systems, covering architecture, implementation in Go, test configurations, and result visualization using Prometheus.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

A Box of Chaos - The Generative Artist's Toolkit

Explore generative art techniques, from algorithms and color theory to creating natural-looking code-generated artwork. Learn practical tools for producing unique digital art pieces.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Leverage vs. Autonomy in a Large Software System

Explore the balance between centralization and decentralization in large-scale software development, examining Twitter's strategies and introducing Strato, a new serverless platform for enhanced engineer productivity.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

All the Languages Together

Explore the challenges and solutions for building multi-language software systems, focusing on language interoperability, safety, and toolchain improvements for seamless integration.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Architecting for Active-Active Resiliency in the Cloud

Explore multi-regional active-active resiliency in cloud architecture, covering data replication, availability calculations, and design patterns for maximizing service uptime and minimizing failures.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Machine Learning Failures - For Art

Explore hilarious machine learning failures in art, from cookie recipes to pony classification, and learn how to deliberately create amusing AI mistakes.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Privacy - The Last Stand for Fair Algorithms

Explore privacy's role in creating fair algorithms and ethical machine learning models. Learn about privacy-preserving techniques and their impact on data science and product design.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Contracts for Getting More Programs Less Wrong

Explore contracts in programming: preconditions, postconditions, and invariants. Learn to write correct algorithms, improve testing, and use tools like JML and C0 for better code quality.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Your Secrets Are Safe with Julia - A Compiler for Secure Computation

Explore Ramparts, a compiler translating Julia code for homomorphic encryption, enabling secure computation on encrypted data without cryptography expertise.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Tree-sitter - A New Parsing System for Programming Tools

Explore Tree-sitter, a powerful parsing system for multi-language developer tools. Learn about its features, integration, and potential applications in GitHub and Atom for improved code analysis.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Justice for Sale

Exploring how technology can address inequalities in the criminal justice system, focusing on mass incarceration and providing affordable legal tools to balance access to justice.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Hackett - A Metaprogrammable Haskell

Explore Hackett, a language combining Haskell's type system with Racket's macro system. Learn about interleaved macroexpansion and typechecking, and discover new possibilities for metaprogramming and DSLs.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk