Philly ETE – Metor.js Talk Summary
I went to a talk at Philly ETE on Meteor, a Javascript-based webapp development platform. The talk was given by Avital Oliver, one of the core meteor developers, on “smart packages,” which is what...
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Philly ETE – Database as a Value
This was the first time I’ve seen Rich Hickey’s talk on Datomic, which lent great clarity to the product. As implemented, Datomic functions as an immutable database for philosophical reasons, although...
View Article“WTF does a Developer Evangelist do?”
I went to see a great talk by Ryan Joy (MSFT) and Keith Casey (Twilio), at Refresh Austin, on what developer evangelists do. I found this surprisingly interesting; this combination of programming and...
View ArticlePGConfNYC: KeyNote notes (Goldman Sachs)
One of the the keynotes addresses to PGConf NYC was a talk by a technology manager at Goldman Sachs who had a bunch of interesting insights into the ecosystem. In their environment, Postgres is one of...
View ArticlePGConfNYC Keynote Notes (Gilt)
One of the keynote presentations for PG Conf NYC was a founder of Gilt Groupe (a site for flash sales of fashion items). This is an interesting business arena, in that the application has an inherent...
View ArticlePhilly ETE Talk notes: NixOS
In the interest of seeing new developments in DevOps, I went to a talk at Philly ETE on Nix OS, by Susan Potter, which ended up being quite interesting as it’s outside what I normally work on. NixOS...
View ArticlePhilly ETE Notes: Protocol Buffers, gRPC, and Kubernetes
I watched a really awesome talk by Kelsey Hightower at Philly ETE (go watch his talks! ) In this he covered in brief three things I’d never seen: Protocol Buffers gRPC Kubernetes Protocol buffers are...
View ArticlePhilly ETE Talk Summary: Rust in Production
Going into Philly ETE I had heard of Rust (programming language) but didn’t know anything about it. Steve Klabnik positions Rust in an interesting fashion: it is both a newer C/C++, with very...
View ArticlePhilly ETE Talk Summary: “Security Vulnerabilities in Third Party Code”
Security is an interesting dimension of software quality; essentially invisible to users, except for the inconvenience of managing passwords, public keys, and the like. Like performance, it is also...
View ArticlePhilly ETE talk notes: WebAssembly
The last talk I attended at Philly ETE was by Luke Wagner on WebAssembly, which is an intermediate assembly language for browsers to use. There are conceptually equivalent technologies in .NET and the...
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