Strange Loop Conference Courses

African Polyphony and Polyrhythm

Exploring computational models for African music, bridging ethnomusicology and programming to preserve and recreate traditional central African polyphony and polyrhythm.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Wikimedia Content API - A Cassandra Use-case

Explore Wikimedia's use of Apache Cassandra for their content API, addressing challenges in storing and serving massive datasets with low latency in a global environment.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Changing the Engine in Flight - Rebuilding Monitoring at Scale

Explore real-time data processing architecture for high-traffic monitoring, including distributed systems, Go-based microservices, and Kafka with ElasticSearch. Learn from successes and failures in upgrading monitoring systems.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

GraphQL - Designing a Data Language

Explore GraphQL's evolution from Facebook's internal tool to open-source query language. Learn its design process, motivations, and impact on server-client architecture.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Point-Free or Die - Tacit Programming in Haskell and Beyond

Explore tacit programming in functional languages, its benefits, drawbacks, and applications. Learn eta-reduction, develop intuition, and examine its use in libraries and specialized languages.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

An Interactive Web Visualization for Watershed Topology

Explore watershed topology through an interactive web visualization, combining data processing, graph algorithms, and graphics optimization to map water flow across nearly 100,000 regions.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

PureScript & Pux - A Safer, More Expressive Way to React

Discover PureScript and Pux: a powerful alternative to Elm for React development, offering gradual adoption, hot reloading, and advanced typing features while maintaining compatibility with existing components.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

If Gaudí Had a Cluster

Explore a visual programming environment for architects, combining Gaudí's innovative spirit with modern distributed computing to revolutionize building design and unleash creative potential.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Distributed Commit Log - Application Techniques for Transaction Processing

Explore techniques for leveraging distributed commit logs in transaction processing, including handling duplicates, sharding, exceptions, and debugging in real-time systems.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

How to Get Started With Functional Programming

Explore functional programming concepts and learn how to transition from object-oriented to functional paradigms for more reliable and readable code.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Idealized Commit Logs - Code Simplification via Program Slicing

Explore a tool for generating Idealized Commit Logs to simplify complex software systems. Learn about type analysis, code coverage, AST transformations, and program slicing to enhance code understanding and modification.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

"Eve" by Chris Granger

Explore the innovative programming system "Eve" and its potential to revolutionize software development through a novel approach to coding and problem-solving.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Apparatus - A Hybrid Graphics Editor - Programming Environment

Explore Apparatus, a hybrid tool combining vector graphics and dataflow capabilities for rapid creation of interactive diagrams, bridging spatial and symbolic approaches to visualization.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Constraint Logic Propagation Conflict Spreadsheets

Live coding system bridging constraint logic programming with data-centric reactivity, enabling speculative analysis and conflict resolution through domain propagation and provenance tracking in relational tables.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

How NOT to Measure Latency

Explore common pitfalls in latency measurement and learn effective techniques for accurate response time analysis using open-source tools to improve application performance and reliability.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk