January 2015 Blog Posts (6)

Phone Software Entrepreneurs? Under 30 Forbes List

Forbes published an under 30 tech list featuring entrepreneurs who've made it big. Read about it …

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Added by Michael Levin on January 27, 2015 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Getting Started With Android

Interested in Android programming? Here's a nice, recent article at Lifehacker outlining good, free resources to get you going. http://lifehacker.com/i-want-to-write-android-apps-where-do-i-start-1643818268 ;

Added by Michael Levin on January 22, 2015 at 11:05am — No Comments

Pay What You Want: Back-End Developer Course Bundle

Pay What You Want: Back-End Developer Course Bundle…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 20, 2015 at 10:23am — No Comments

Speak at OSCON!

Here's a message from O'Relly about OSCON 2015:

We're deep into planning OSCON 2015 and we've got some exciting news: OSCON is changing. We're no longer beating the drum and…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 11:47am — No Comments

O'Reilly Solid Conference CFP closes 1/20!

The O'Reilly Solid conference is in San Diego in June and it's all about the merging of HW/SW for the IoT. Want to get involved? The Call for Papers is open and there are loads of benefits in giving a presentation for an O'Reilly conference., Take it from me! It's a great thing to do for the community and you learn a ton…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments

How to Use SQL, Hadoop, Drill, REST, JSON, NoSQL, and HBase in a Simple REST Client

Our friend Carol just published this article.

SQL will become one of the most prolific use cases in the Hadoop ecosystem, according to Forrester Research. Apache Drill is an open source SQL query engine for big data exploration. REST services and clients have emerged as popular technologies on the Internet. Apache HBase is a hugely popular Hadoop NoSQL…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 7, 2015 at 1:45pm — No Comments

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Presentation: From Friction to Flow: How Great DevEx Makes Everything Awesome

Nicole Forsgren discusses the "AI Productivity Paradox", explaining why generating code faster often makes deployment bottlenecks more expensive. She shares the DevEx framework to help architects and leaders systematically remove friction. Learn how to use DORA metrics and RICE prioritization to make a data-driven case for platform health.

By Nicole Forsgren

Article: Lessons from Adopting SwiftUI in an App with 50 Million Users

Most SwiftUI educational content focuses on small projects and sample apps that do not explain what it means to adopt it in a 50 million user app developed by a team of 20+ iOS engineers. This article will attempt to fill this gap. and show how to succeed without breaking your team, your app, or your users' trust along the way.

By Jimit Patel

Article: Architecting Portable Systems on Open Standards for Digital Sovereignty

Digital sovereignty is about maintaining control of critical systems by limiting reliance on any single vendor. Open standards and portable architectures reduce lock‑in and keep migration options open, even when providers change pricing, licensing, or viability. Full independence is impossible, but disciplined design and clear guardrails strengthen resilience.

By Jakob Beckmann

QCon London 2026: Running AI at the Edge - Running Real Workloads Directly in the Browser

At QCon London 2026, James Hall discussed running AI workloads directly in browsers, highlighting local processing benefits such as enhanced privacy, reduced latency and cost. He examined technologies like Transformers.js and WebGPU, illustrated practical applications, and provided guidelines for browser-based AI implementation, emphasizing appropriate use cases and evaluation principles.

By Daniel Curtis

Inside Netflix’s Graph Abstraction: Handling 650TB of Graph Data in Milliseconds Globally

Netflix engineers built Graph Abstraction, a high-throughput platform managing 650 TB of graph data with millisecond latency. Supporting services from Netflix Gaming’s social graphs to operational topology graphs, it maintains global availability via asynchronous replication. This article covers its architecture, caching, and traversal design for high-scale performance.

By Leela Kumili

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