Strange Loop Conference Courses

Add ALL the Things - Abstract Algebra Meets Analytics

Explore how abstract algebra principles apply to analytics systems, enhancing distributed and real-time aggregation efficiency through group theory laws and practical coding examples.

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

Make Your Mobile Apps Accessible to All

Learn to make iOS and Android apps accessible for users with disabilities, covering accessibility libraries, implementation techniques, and creating accessibility services for existing apps.

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

Concurrency and Parallel Computing in JavaScript

Explore concurrency and parallel computing in JavaScript, covering actors, futures, and throughput computing in browsers. Learn techniques for leveraging modern parallel hardware in web development.

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

Programming a 144-Computer Chip to Minimize Power

Explore ultra-low power computing with a 144-core chip. Learn programming techniques to minimize energy consumption, optimize instruction execution, and leverage asynchronous architecture for efficient computing.

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

Raft - The Understandable Distributed Protocol

Explore Raft, a new distributed protocol designed for real-world applications and understandability. Learn its key concepts, implementation, and advantages over Paxos.

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

Sync is the Future of Mobile Data

Explore the future of mobile data synchronization using NoSQL document models for offline-capable applications. Learn implementation techniques and contribute to open-source projects in this field.

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

Web Apps in Clojure and ClojureScript with Pedestal

Explore Pedestal for building collaborative Clojure/ClojureScript apps. Learn dataflow, pure functions, and state management to create complex applications with simplified code.

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

High Availability at Braintree

Explore high availability strategies at Braintree, including traffic pausing, rolling deploys, load balancing, and error handling, to minimize downtime and maintain seamless payment processing.

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

Why Ruby Isn't Slow

Explore Ruby's performance challenges and solutions through Topaz VM, addressing method dispatch, constant lookups, and allocation issues for improved speed and efficiency.

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

Getting Pushy - Pushing Data From Server to Browser

Explore server-push techniques for dynamic web apps, focusing on Lift framework's approach and its application in Clojure/ClojureScript/AngularJS projects.

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

Thinking DSLs for Massive Visualization

Explore domain-specific languages for parallel computing and program synthesis in massive interactive visualizations, focusing on Superconductor's innovative approach to browser-based data visualization.

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

Dart for the Language Enthusiast

Explore Dart's unique features with language enthusiast Bob Nystrom, covering laziness, higher-order functions, asynchrony, and abstraction in this engaging talk for programmers curious about Google's browser language.

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

Distributing the Go Language and Runtime

Explore Go Circuit, an extension to Go for distributed systems. Learn about spawning remote goroutines, simplified cloud application development, and powerful lifecycle maintenance tools.

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

JavaScript for Science

Exploring the intersection of JavaScript and scientific research, highlighting challenges in scientific software development and proposing solutions for better collaboration between developers and scientists.

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

Partitions for Everyone

Explores network partitions in distributed systems, revealing design limits and bugs. Demonstrates challenges in building reliable distributed services through real-world testing of popular systems.

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