At the heart of every software product is the code, and code can have smells as well. Ignoring the smells in your code can lead to disastrous results for your product as well. What are some of those code smells, how can they bring down your software product and do …
We routinely make systems that exceed our ability to understand completely. Instead, we explore pieces at a time – small local details or large global abstractions, but rarely both at once. But software is far from unique in this. We are surrounded by physical and social systems that are too …
JavaScript, like English, is the language of commerce and is spoken everywhere – usually badly. Like English there is widespread debate about the best way to speak JavaScript – and if there even *is* a good way. Like English, JavaScript is a mix of idioms and syntaxes borrowed or stolen …
In this gentle introduction, with examples, to the forthcoming Java Platform Module System, you will learn how to create a module from scratch, compile it, test it, and run it. The session also shows basic techniques for modularizing existing libraries and applications.
Gilt, a billion dollar e-commerce company, implemented a sophisticated microservices architecture on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure to handle millions of customers visiting their site at noon every day. The microservices architecture pattern enables independent service scaling, faster deployments, better fault isolation, and graceful degradation.
Stack Overflow is developed with a hands-on approach, where practical facts always trump theoretical concerns and this allows us to have a unique blend of techniques and approaches to coding. This talk presents Stack Overflow’s usage of application architecture, coding abstractions, continuous deployment, methodology. I will give demos of our …
