Strange Loop Conference Courses

Systems That Run Forever - Self-Heal and Scale

Explore architectural principles for building large distributed systems that detect failures, recover at runtime, evolve while running, and scale through isolated parallel components.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Pushing the Limits of Web Browsers

Explore how virtual machines and programming language design—from V8’s JavaScript engine to Dart—can push web browsers toward more capable web applications.

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

Qbrt Bytecode - Interface Between Code and Execution

A look at Qbrt, a bytecode language and VM that gives front-end languages concurrency, asynchronous I/O, multiple dispatch, and pattern-matching primitives.

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

Dao Programming Language for Scripting and Computing

An overview of Dao, a lightweight optionally typed language featuring expressive syntax, simpler concurrency, embeddable VM interfaces, and LLVM-based JIT compilation.

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

Enso - Composing DSL Interpreters, Languages & Aspects

Enso demonstrates how a self-describing language workbench composes textual and graphical DSLs with reusable interpreters.

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

Fast and Dynamic

A tour of how JIT compilers and runtime techniques make expressive dynamic languages faster, from Lisp machines and Smalltalk to Google V8.

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

Visualization Driven Development

Use interactive visualizations to understand and debug application algorithms, connecting simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript displays to code.

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

Erlang for Authoritative DNS

See how Erlang’s bit syntax, processes, OTP, and caching support an authoritative DNS server, including techniques for overcoming performance bottlenecks.

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

Simplifying Asynchronous Code With Scala Async

Learn how Scala Async uses async and await to make nonblocking asynchronous I/O read like familiar sequential code.

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

Chrome Security Secret Sauce

Explore Chrome's security principles and defenses against browser exploits, malicious sites, phishing, malware, and SSL attacks.

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

Software for Programming Cells

Explore software for programming cells through molecular circuits, genetic computation devices, DNA-compiled consensus algorithms, and tools for combining genetic parts into cellular devices.

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

Real-World Datomic - An Experience Report

A production case study of Datomic’s indexing, schema, and transactor behavior while modeling real-world sales funnel events.

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

How Does Text Become Data

Learn how concept-based text understanding turns language into data for classification, visualization, search, and recommender systems.

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

Philosophy of Scala Macros

Explore the evolution, internals, and design tensions of Scala macros, from def macros to blackbox and whitebox macros.

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

Spores - Distributable Functions in Scala

Explore Scala's Spores and fast pickling framework for transporting functional behavior and persisting data across distributed systems.

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