Strange Loop Conference Courses

What We Learned Dissecting the World's Most Popular Containers

Insights from analyzing popular container images: security risks, complexity, and trade-offs between developer experience and production readiness in Kubernetes environments.

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

Powering Spotify's Audio Personalization Platform

Explore Spotify's ML platform powering personalized audio recommendations for 400M+ users, featuring insights on model training, prediction serving, and engineering challenges.

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

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Explore the groundbreaking Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Learn about its advanced technology, automated operations, and potential to revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

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

In the Land of the Sizing, the One-Partition Kafka Topic is King

Demystifying Kafka topic partitioning: impacts on consistency, concurrency, and durability. Learn optimal sizing strategies and consequences of poor decisions for efficient system performance.

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

LiveViewJS is the Anti-SPA Library for Reactive App Development in NodeJS and Deno

Explore LiveViewJS, a reactive web development approach using web sockets for NodeJS and Deno. Learn about its simplified API, automatic handling of connections, and efficient UI updates.

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

Workflows, a New Abstraction for Distributed Systems

Explore how Workflow Systems revolutionize distributed systems development, mitigating challenges like failure at the platform level and enabling coding as if failures don't exist.

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

Don't Get Owned by Your Dependencies

Explore innovative techniques for mitigating memory safety vulnerabilities in third-party C libraries, focusing on Firefox's lightweight in-memory sandboxing approach and the RLBox framework for efficient, secure application development.

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

How to Avoid Safety Hazards When Using Closures in Scala

Explore safety hazards in Scala closures, learn to identify unsafe code, write safer closure-using code, and utilize new library components for increased flexibility and safety in parallel and distributed programming.

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

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Autoscaling with Constant Work

Explore constant work as an alternative to on-demand scaling, addressing regional outages and cascading failures. Learn implementation strategies, trade-offs, and real-world examples for improved system reliability.

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

Polymorphism Unbound

Explore polymorphism across languages like C++, Java, Python, Kotlin, and Scala. Gain insights into different forms, abilities, and constraints to enhance your understanding of this fundamental concept.

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

Fight AI Bias With Bias

Explore techniques to de-bias datasets and build fair, equitable AI systems. Learn how to address biases, increase trust, and promote responsible AI practices for improved adoption and safety.

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

CodeGen with Types, for Humans, by Humans

Explore a code generation engine built in Elm for creating readable, typesafe, and maintainable code, featuring automatic imports, formatting, and built-in type checking.

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

All About Regular Expressions

Explore the history, implementations, and best practices of regular expressions in programming, including their origins, language-specific variations, and strategies for efficient usage.

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

Symbolic Numeric Programming in Julia

Explore Symbolics.jl for computer-algebra metaprogramming in Julia, enabling powerful code transforms, optimization, and automatic differentiation with symbolic techniques.

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

A Distributed File System for Secure P2P Applications

Explore WebNative File System: a content-addressed, encrypted forest of blocks enabling secure, user-centric collaborative software without platform dependence. Learn its applications in decentralized, multiuser scenarios.

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