As a software system grows in size, it becomes progressively difficult for programmers to understand the underlying architectural intent and to extract the architectural knowledge they need to implement changes successfully. Unfortunately, anecdotal evidence has shown that such knowledge tends to be tacit, stored in people’s heads, and scattered across …
As a conceptual framework, functional programming empowers us to write software that is modular, highly reusable, and easy to reason about. But practicing this discipline in Scala comes with a number of difficulties and idiosyncrasies that need to be addressed. This video presents what functional programming is, brings up some …
Limundo/Kupindo websites daily have more than 300 000 visitors which generate 10 million page views per day. During peak hours around 10 000 users are online simultaneously. On the other side, speed, stability and scalability are three main requirements that need to be matched with a PHP application architecture.
For most developers, the security team at Google is a black box. Yet Safe Browsing and its API have been around for years and currently protect over a billion users. We also recently launched the source code to End-To-End, an encryption extension for Chrome, where we’re explicitly calling for community …
This video presents on SimpleReach’s use of message architectures and why they an important part of a distributed system stack. They are often overlooked because the prevailing sentiment is that the storage and processing engines are the most important aspects of the system. Without the highways, the data won’t be …
This is a quick-fire, whistle-stop, shallow-to-the-point-of-vacuous tour through the history of programming and programming languages, from the surprise twist at the beginning, through the Golden Age of LISP, C and Smalltalk, right up to the present day.
