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Can design be so amazing that it makes us feel superheroic? Can it be so poor that it angers and fr… Tags: Superheroes & Villains in Design, design Michael Levin Mar 6, 2014 146 views
President Barack Obama asks every American to give it a shot to learn to code, kicking off the Hour… Tags: Code, of Michael Levin Dec 10, 2013 100 views
Roy Singham @ ThoughtWorks and Herman @ Softdrive talk with BBC about incubating the software devel… Tags: africa Michael Levin Jul 24, 2012 75 views
This original rap music video made for JavaOne 2011 celebrates the "Java Life". Dedicated to the de… Tags: video, rap Michael Levin Jan 12, 2012 100 views
Steve Jobs's speech at Standford 2005 - Thai sub Tags: innovation, freelance Michael Levin Oct 6, 2011 114 views
Murray's concern with the problems presented by unwanted but usable old computers being discarded i… Tags: eWaste Michael Levin Aug 15, 2010 90 views
Including a performance by Isaac "Shovelman" Frankle at Maker Faire. It's amazing what you can do w… Tags: faire, maker Michael Levin Jun 7, 2009 158 views
This video introduces developers to building apps on Google App Engine. For more in-depth informati… Tags: Engine, App Michael Levin Jan 26, 2009 138 views
Video of the "Conversation with Josh Bloch" from Pearson Education's Voices That Matter: Google Web… Tags: GWT, bloch Michael Levin Jan 26, 2009 144 views
Joshua Bloch, Chief Java Architect at Google, presents his Effective Java™ Programming Language Gui… Tags: bloch, java Michael Levin Jan 26, 2009 186 views
Q&A interview with Bruce Eckel, best selling author Tags: patterns, recipes Michael Levin Jan 26, 2009 126 views
Bruce Eckel covers what Open Spaces are how they are run, and resolves many misconceptions about 'U… Tags: conferences, eckel Michael Levin Jan 26, 2009 114 views
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. But that also provides opportunities for engineers to invent and shape the role of principal engineers.
By Ben Linders, Joy Ebertz, Pablo Fredrikson, Charlotte de Jong SchouwenburgAndy Burgin explains what the customer experience team did in one of their projects, starting from scratch and how they have attained feedback with recommendations from across the business.
By Andy BurginNetflix engineers recently published a deep dive into their Distributed Counter Abstraction, a scalable service designed to track user interactions, feature usage, and business performance metrics with low latency. The system balances performance, accuracy, and cost through configurable counting modes, resilient data aggregation, and a globally distributed architecture.
By Eran StillerAmazon Web Services (AWS) has launched S3 Metadata, enhancing data management for S3 users. This new capability enables near real-time querying and analysis of S3 data via organized metadata updates. By adopting Apache Iceberg, it ensures interoperability and scalability, allowing businesses to efficiently leverage their data for analytics and AI applications.
By Steef-Jan WiggersJake Zimmerman, Technical Lead of Sorbet at Stripe, and Getty Ritter, Ruby Infrastructure Engineer at Stripe, presented Refactoring Stubborn, Legacy Codebases at the 2024 QCon San Francisco conference. Zimmerman and Ritter demonstrated how to fix complaints on maintaining a large codebase with leverage and by ratcheting incremental progress.
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