Strange Loop Conference Courses

Art You Can Make by Spying on Yourself with Your Phone

Explore video art created with custom software that captures phone camera and screen activity, examining human-device interactions and digital surveillance.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Disaster Recovery Options Running Apache Kafka in Kubernetes

Explore disaster recovery strategies for Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, including active-active replication and multi-regional clusters. Learn to architect reliable deployments and leverage automation tools for mission-critical applications.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

An IPC Language for the Whole Operating System

Explore Fuchsia's innovative FIDL system for unified API and ABI boundaries across the entire OS stack, from kernel to GUI apps, discussing its benefits and challenges.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Monad I Love You Now Get Out Of My Type System

Explore a novel programming paradigm that separates business logic from execution concerns, offering automated asynchronous execution, caching, and more without invasive type system changes.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Detecting and Addressing Overload in LinkedIn Microservices

Explore LinkedIn's Hodor framework for automatic detection and mitigation of microservice overloads, ensuring optimal performance without manual intervention.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

A Hipster History of CORS

Explore the evolution of CORS, its historical context, and modern cross-origin standards. Gain insights into web security and learn how to design secure web applications effectively.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Skip Ratchet

Innovative cryptographic ratchet for decentralized environments, combining hierarchical hashing and skip lists. Enables efficient key agreement, synchronization, and backward secrecy in local-first deployments.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Hedy - A Gradual Programming Language

Explore Hedy, a gradual programming language designed to bridge the gap between visual and textual coding for kids, featuring localized keywords and progressive syntax complexity.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Level Up Your Machine Learning Lifecycle

Discover a scalable ML lifecycle framework that simplifies end-to-end projects, reduces development time, and enhances code quality through modular design across data, model, and deployment stages.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

What We Learned Dissecting the World's Most Popular Containers

Insights from analyzing popular container images: security risks, complexity, and trade-offs between developer experience and production readiness in Kubernetes environments.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Powering Spotify's Audio Personalization Platform

Explore Spotify's ML platform powering personalized audio recommendations for 400M+ users, featuring insights on model training, prediction serving, and engineering challenges.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Explore the groundbreaking Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Learn about its advanced technology, automated operations, and potential to revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

In the Land of the Sizing, the One-Partition Kafka Topic is King

Demystifying Kafka topic partitioning: impacts on consistency, concurrency, and durability. Learn optimal sizing strategies and consequences of poor decisions for efficient system performance.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

LiveViewJS is the Anti-SPA Library for Reactive App Development in NodeJS and Deno

Explore LiveViewJS, a reactive web development approach using web sockets for NodeJS and Deno. Learn about its simplified API, automatic handling of connections, and efficient UI updates.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Workflows, a New Abstraction for Distributed Systems

Explore how Workflow Systems revolutionize distributed systems development, mitigating challenges like failure at the platform level and enabling coding as if failures don't exist.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk