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Jim Baker - Getting to Jython 2.7 and beyond - PyCon 2015
"Speaker: Jim Baker So how did we get to Jython 2.7 anyway? And what are our future plans? In this… Michael Levin Apr 25, 2015 108 views
A smartphone dongle to diagnose sexually transmitted infections
A step-by-step demonstration of a smartphone dongle to diagnose sexually transmitted infections thr… Michael Levin Feb 17, 2015 82 views
JCertif International project KITA-MATA : Pilote #Drone using #African language
JCertif International project KITA-MATA : Pilote #Drone using #African language Michael Levin Oct 17, 2014 82 views
OTN IoT Developer Challenge: JCertif International
Tori Wieldt interviews Max Bonbhel on their IoT project and the African developer communities. Michael Levin Oct 17, 2014 104 views
Welcome to JavaOne
You'll see some familiar faces in this video. Java One 2014 begins soon... Michael Levin Sep 29, 2014 81 views
The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh
The Original 1984 Macintosh Introduction: the magic moment, when Steve Jobs unveils the Macintosh a… Michael Levin Jun 11, 2014 100 views
Model Lyndsey Scott Talks Developing Apps
Lyndsey Scott is a model for Victoria's Secret and Prada who develops iOS apps in her spare time. S… Michael Levin Jun 11, 2014 100 views
Steve Jobs talks about managing people
"we are organized like a startups" Michael Levin Mar 13, 2014 96 views
Song A Day #588: That's Just The Woz
DOWNLOAD this song: http://jonathanmann.bandcamp.com/track/thats-just-the-woz For the Woz! Michael Levin Mar 7, 2014 95 views
Aral Balkan: Superheroes & Villains in Design
Can design be so amazing that it makes us feel superheroic? Can it be so poor that it angers and fr… Michael Levin Mar 6, 2014 146 views
President Obama calls on every American to learn code
President Barack Obama asks every American to give it a shot to learn to code, kicking off the Hour… Michael Levin Dec 10, 2013 100 views
BBC - Software Development in Africa
Roy Singham @ ThoughtWorks and Herman @ Softdrive talk with BBC about incubating the software devel… Michael Levin Jul 24, 2012 76 views
The "Java Life" Rap Music Video
This original rap music video made for JavaOne 2011 celebrates the "Java Life". Dedicated to the de… Michael Levin Jan 12, 2012 104 views
Steve Jobs' speech at Stanford university 2005 - Thai sub
Steve Jobs's speech at Standford 2005 - Thai sub Michael Levin Oct 6, 2011 114 views
Murray Wilson - eWaste and the Social Landfill
Murray's concern with the problems presented by unwanted but usable old computers being discarded i… Michael Levin Aug 15, 2010 91 views
Maker Faire '09
Including a performance by Isaac "Shovelman" Frankle at Maker Faire. It's amazing what you can do w… Michael Levin Jun 7, 2009 158 views
Auditing Reduces IT Overhead -Internal compliance auditing will reduce IT overhead, expense and liability on several levels. 01:15
Internal auditing massively reduces technology overhead and costs on several different levels, incl… Sadien Intellectual Property May 30, 2009 168 views
Big-Software (Part 1): How Big-Software can use the law to destroy other companies featuring G.C. Hutson, CEO for Sadien 03:16
Big-Software companies have the power and legal backing to use federal copyright law to destroy oth… Sadien Intellectual Property May 22, 2009 172 views
James Gosling and I are talking about CongoJUG 02:47
We are talking at the JavaOne event about my project to start a Java User Group in Congo (Africa).… Max Bonbhel Apr 23, 2009 152 views
MixJavaOne 02:47
Conversation with James Gosling about CongoJUG Max Bonbhel Apr 23, 2009 126 views
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How Observability and Telemetry Can Enhance the Practice of Software Engineering
Observability must evolve with serverless, event-driven architectures. OpenTelemetry can decouple telemetry from vendors, letting developers emit consistent, high-quality data that explains real system behavior. Shared vocabularies and good telemetry make debugging faster and improve reliability, speed, and developer productivity.
By Ben LindersPresentation: How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud
Frank Yu shares Coinbase’s engineering philosophy for building resilient, fair, and fast financial exchanges. He explains the power of a single-threaded architecture combined with the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain 24/7 availability. He discusses how determinism enables zero-downtime rolling deployments and the ability to replay production logs for perfect bug reproduction.
By Frank YuDropbox Collaborates with GitHub to Reduce Monorepo Size from 87GB to 20GB
Dropbox reduced its backend monorepo from 87GB to 20GB by optimizing Git delta compression in collaboration with GitHub. The changes improved clone times, CI performance, and developer velocity, highlighting how repository storage inefficiencies can impact large-scale engineering workflows.
By Leela KumiliPresentation: Panel: Building a Culture that Works
The panelists share insights on evolving company culture. They discuss leveraging feedback loops, lending social capital, and the friction between legacy bureaucracy and agile engineering. The panel explains how to maintain cohesion in remote teams and use interviews to uncover the true "unmanicured" culture of a firm.
By Nicky Wrightson, Suhail Patel, Lesley Cordero, Matthew Card, Natan Žabkar NordbergCloudflare Sandboxes Reach General Availability, Giving AI Agents Persistent Isolated Environments
Cloudflare has released Sandboxes and Containers into general availability, providing persistent isolated Linux environments for AI agent workloads. New capabilities include secure credential injection via egress proxy, PTY terminal support, persistent code interpreters, filesystem watching, and snapshot-based session recovery. Active CPU pricing charges only for used cycles.
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