Strange Loop Conference Courses

Partitions for Everyone

Explores network partitions in distributed systems, revealing design limits and bugs. Demonstrates challenges in building reliable distributed services through real-world testing of popular systems.

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

Clojure Core.async

Explore core.async in Clojure: Learn about independent threads, queue-like channels, and efficient communication between components. Discover how to build more manageable and scalable systems.

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

Exercises in Style

Explore diverse programming styles through one simple program, showcasing the richness of computational thought and its impact on large-scale systems design.

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

Taking PHP Seriously

Exploring PHP's unique design choices in programmer workflow, concurrency, and shared state, highlighting its strengths and impact on successful projects like Facebook and WordPress.

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

The Trouble With Types

Exploración de sistemas de tipos estáticos y dinámicos, sus ventajas y desventajas, y el diseño de lenguajes de programación, con énfasis en Scala y futuros desarrollos.

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

Machine Learning for Relevance and Serendipity

Explore machine learning for personalized content discovery, featuring real-time relevance models, topical classification, and targeted serendipity in news recommendation systems.

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

Humanity 2.0

Explore humanity's journey through technological progress, from our origins to future brain augmentation, and understand the role of technology in our evolution and survival.

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

Building a Unified Cancer Immunotherapy Data Library

Explore a unified cancer immunotherapy data library leveraging Datomic for efficient storage, querying, and collaboration. Learn about CANDEL's innovative approach to managing complex research data.

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

Privacy Governance and Explainability in ML - AI

Explore privacy governance in ML/AI, addressing GDPR compliance, explainability challenges, bias identification, and strategies for enhancing consumer trust in complex data-driven decision-making processes.

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

Pattern Matching at Scale Using Finite State Machine

Explore pattern matching at scale using finite state machines for big data analysis. Learn to build a framework for expressing user journey patterns and applying them across billions of events using Spark.

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

A Better Story for Kubernetes Secrets

Explore techniques for securing Kubernetes secrets, including encryption, KMS plugins, and HashiCorp Vault. Learn the tradeoffs of each approach to enhance cluster security.

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

Apache Pulsar and the Legacy of Telegraphy

Explore the parallels between wireless telegraphy and Apache Pulsar, uncovering design principles for distributed, low-latency messaging systems. Gain insights into Pulsar's architecture, features, and future potential.

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

Lang Wishful Thinking

Explore language design and metaprogramming with Racket, implementing FastCGI protocol using innovative techniques like metatables, custom syntax, and domain-specific languages for efficient problem-solving.

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

Unison - A New Distributed Programming Language

Explore Unison, a functional language for distributed systems. Learn its unique features, including self-deployment, elastic scaling, and simplified code management for building complex distributed applications.

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

Rhapsody in Zero Knowledge - Proving Without Revealing

Explore zero-knowledge proofs: a cryptographic technique enabling proof verification without revealing sensitive information, balancing security and privacy in modern computing.

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