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Java 13 with Georges Saab

12.03.2019

Java has been popular since the 90s, when it started to be used as a programming language for enterprises. Today, Java is still widely deployed, but the infrastructure environment is dramatically different. Java is often deployed to containers in the ...

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12.03.2019 Java 13 with Georges Saab Java has been popular since the 90s, when it started to be used as a programming language for enterprises. Today, Java is still widely deployed, but the infrastructure environment is dramatically different. Java is often deployed to containers in the ...
11.22.2019 Web Application Testing with Gabriel-James Safar Web applications are used on a wide variety of platforms. On each of these platforms the web app needs to load properly and allow the user to navigate the website and interact with all of the user flows, such as ...
11.21.2019 HTTP with Julia Evans HTTP is a protocol that allows browsers and web applications to communicate across the Internet. Everyone knows that HTTP is doing some important work, because “HTTP” is at the beginning of most URLs that you enter into your browser. You ...
11.11.2019 Gatsby with Kyle Mathews and Sam Bhagwat Frontend software development has become as complex as backend development. There was a time when frontend web development was simple. There was a small number of JavaScript frameworks and templating systems. Your CSS was simple configuration for the colors on ...
10.11.2019 Webflow: No-Code with Vlad Magdalin Webflow is a platform for building applications without programming. Software engineering has barely been around for 30 years. Over that period of time, there have been many attempts to create a platform that allows for the creation of software without ...
09.25.2019 WebAssembly Isolation with Tyler McMullen Isolation is a fundamental concept in computer science. Software workloads are isolated from each other in order to keep resource access cleanly separated. When programs are properly isolated, it is easier for the programmer to reason about the memory safety ...
09.06.2019 Repl.it: Browser Coding with Amjad Masad The browser has become the central application of the consumer operating system. Every piece of client software, from email to document management, has become usable through the browser. Even modern desktop software such as Slack is built using Electron, a ...
07.15.2019 Facebook PHP with Keith Adams Facebook was built using PHP, a programming language that was used widely in the late 90s and early 2000s. PHP allows developers to get web applications built quickly and easily, although PHP has a reputation for being difficult to scale. ...
07.08.2019 Edge Storage with Steve Klabnik Edge computing allows for faster data access and computation. When your client application makes a request, that request might be routed to the edge. Edge servers are more numerous and more widely distributed than normal data centers, but an edge ...
07.02.2019 Google Earth WebAssembly with Jordon Mears Google Earth allows users to explore the imagery of the real world. Imagery for Google Earth is taken from satellites, cars equipped with cameras, and other sources. Google Earth renders a data intensive 3-D model of the world on a ...
06.24.2019 Project Management with Kurt Schrader Software projects are organized and planned using project management software. Examples of project management software include JIRA, Trello, and Asana. There are hundreds of tools for managing a software project because there are infinite ways that a project could be ...
06.20.2019 WebAssembly Compilation with Till Schneidereit WebAssembly allows for web-based execution of languages other than JavaScript. Programs written in Rust or C++ can be compiled down to WebAssembly and shipped over the browser for on-the-fly execution in a safe, memory controlled environment. WebAssembly has been in ...
05.08.2019 Web Assembly Runtime with Tyler McMullen WebAssembly is a binary instruction format for applications to run in a memory-constrained, stack-based virtual machine. The WebAssembly ecosystem consists of tools and projects that allow programs in a variety of languages to compile into WebAssembly and run in a ...
03.25.2019 CodeSandbox: Online Code Editor with Bas Buursma and Ives van Hoorne Upcoming events: A Conversation with Haseeb Qureshi at Cloudflare on April 3, 2019 FindCollabs Hackathon at App Academy on April 6, 2019 Coding in the browser has been attempted several times in the last decade. Building a development environment in ...
03.06.2019 WebAssembly Execution with Syrus Akbary WebAssembly is a runtime that lets languages beyond JavaScript to execute in frontend web applications. WebAssembly is novel because most modern frontend applications are written entirely in JavaScript. WebAssembly lets us use languages like Rust and C++ after they have ...
02.22.2019 React Native Rearchitecture with G2i Team React Native allows developers to build native applications for iOS and Android using components written in the React JavaScript framework. These ReactJS components render to native application code by going over a JavaScript bridge, a message bus that communicates between ...
01.23.2019 Storybook: UI Engineering with Zoltan Olah React, Vue, and Angular are the most popular frontend JavaScript frameworks. Each of these frameworks lets frontend developers build components. A component is a high level visual abstraction that is used to compose a user interface. Frontend development has moved ...
12.20.2018 Modern Front End: React, GraphQL, VR, WebAssembly with Adam Conrad Ten years ago, there was a distinction between “backend” and “frontend” developers. A backend developer would be managing the business logic and database transactions using Ruby on Rails or Java. A frontend developer would be responsible for implementing designs and ...
12.14.2018 Full Stack JavaScript with Wes Bos Wes Bos has created popular courses on React, GraphQL, and JavaScript. With hundreds of thousands of students, Wes has earned a cult following for his fun, practical lessons on web development. The courses produced by Wes teach developers how to ...
10.24.2018 JAM Stack with Phil Hawksworth Engineers can build applications faster by using tools that abstract away infrastructure. Major cloud providers offer this tooling in the form of functions-as-a-service, as well as managed services such as Google BigQuery or Azure Container Instances. The term “serverless” refers ...
10.22.2018 Google JavaScript with Malte Ubl Google Search is a highly interactive JavaScript application. As you enter a query, results are being automatically suggested to you before you even finish typing. When you press enter, some of your search results may be widgets that represent the ...
10.02.2018 Kotlin Design with Andrey Breslav Kotlin is a statically typed programming language that started as a JVM language. It gained popularity because it reduces the amount of boilerplate code required for a typical Java project. Many of the early adopters of Kotlin were building Android ...
09.26.2018 JavaScript Engines with Mathias Bynens JavaScript performance has improved over time due to advances in JavaScript engines such as Google’s V8. A JavaScript engine performs compiler optimization, garbage collection, hot code management, caching, and other runtime aspects that keep a JavaScript program running efficiently. JavaScript ...
08.20.2018 WebAssembly Engineering with Ben Smith and Thomas Nattestad WebAssembly allows developers to run any language in a sandboxed, memory controlled module that can be called via well-defined semantics. As we have discussed in recent episodes with Lin Clark and Steve Klabnik from Mozilla, WebAssembly is changing application architectures ...
08.17.2018 WebAssembly Future with Steve Klabnik WebAssembly is a low-level compilation target for any programming language that can be interpreted into WebAssembly. Alternatively, WebAssembly is a way to run languages other than JavaScript in the browser. Or, yet another way of describing WebAssembly is a virtual ...
07.27.2018 React Native at Airbnb with Gabriel Peal React Native allows developers to reuse frontend code between mobile platforms. A user interface component written in React Native can be used in both iOS and Android codebases. Since React Native allows for code reuse, this can save time for ...
07.20.2018 WebAssembly with Lin Clark JavaScript has been the exclusive language of the web browser for the last 20 years. Whether you use Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari, your browser interprets and executes code in a virtual machine–and that virtual machine only runs JavaScript. ...
04.19.2018 React Stack with G2i Team Most new frontend webapps today use ReactJS. An increasing number of mobile apps are created using the cross-platform components of React Native. GraphQL, Facebook’s open source data-fetching middleware tool is being used by more and more companies, who are finding ...
12.21.2017 React Components with Max Stoiber Modern frontend development is about components. Whether we are building an application in React, Vue, or Angular, components are the abstractions that we build our user interfaces out of. Today, this seems obvious, but if you think back five years ...
12.01.2017 Animating VueJS with Sarah Drasner Most user interfaces that we interact with are not animated. We click on a button, and a form blinks into view. We click a link and the page abruptly changes. On the other hand, when we interact with an application ...
10.02.2017 ReactVR with Andrew Imm React is a programming model for user interfaces. ReactJS is for building user interfaces for web applications. React Native is for building UI on Android or iOS. ReactVR is for building user interfaces in virtual reality. React Native was originally ...
08.24.2017 Advertiser Bidding with Praneet Sharma Content websites are supported by advertising. Most of the advertisements around the internet are dynamic ad slots that change depending on the user who visits the site. Those dynamic ad slots are available to a variety of different bidders. For ...
08.17.2017 GatsbyJS with Kyle Mathews GatsbyJS is a framework for building web applications for JavaScript. Gatsby’s original goal was to allow users to create super fast static web sites that could be hosted and served efficiently at a low cost. Most web pages have components ...
08.11.2017 TypeScript at Slack with Felix Rieseberg Slack is an application for team communication. Users chat across mobile devices, web browsers, and a desktop application, which means Slack has three places to deploy on rather than two. And the desktop apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux are ...
08.10.2017 Lottie Animation with Brandon Withrow and Gabriel Peal Animations make an application more fun and engaging. For most apps, animation is an afterthought. Developers are concerned with getting the functionality right, and designers have enough work to do simply getting icons, text formatting, and page layout correct. There ...
08.09.2017 State of JavaScript with Sacha Greif JavaScript is moving so fast. It’s not easy to keep up with all of the frameworks, build tools, and packages. No other language spans frontend to backend, mobile to web to server. Sacha Greif is an independent designer and developer ...
07.07.2017 React Native Interfaces with Leland Richardson Airbnb is a company that is driven by design. New user interfaces are dreamed up by designers and implemented for web, iOS, and Android. This implementation process takes a lot of resources, but it used to take even more before ...
07.06.2017 React Native Ecosystem with Nader Dabit React Native allows developers to reuse components from one user interface on multiple platforms. React Native was introduced by Facebook to reduce the pain of teams who were rewriting their user interfaces for web, iOS, and Android. Nader Dabit hosts ...
06.28.2017 Linux Kernel Governance with Greg Kroah-Hartman The code in the Linux kernel changes all the time–11k lines are added, 5.8k lines are removed, and 2k lines are modified DAILY. Linux is an open source operating system that has been worked on for 25 years, and one ...
05.23.2017 Healthcare Engineering with Isaac Councill Healthcare is a complex business. Oscar is a company that wanted to build a new insurance provider–but realized that healthcare is so interconnected that in order to build a new insurance provider, realized it actually needed to build an entire ...
04.11.2017 The Future of React Native with Brent Vatne and Adam Perry React Native has unlocked native mobile development to web engineers who may now apply their skills to build iOS and Android applications in JavaScript. For the first time, cross platform JavaScript-based applications feel as if they were written in the ...
03.31.2017 WebAssembly with Brendan Eich Brendan Eich created the first version of JavaScript in 10 days. Since then JavaScript has evolved, and Brendan has watched the growth of the web give rise to new and unexpected use cases. Today Brendan Eich is still pushing the ...
01.23.2017 Hybrid Mobile Apps with Adam Bradley Building a mobile app requires developers to build a separate version for Android and iOS. The approval process for app stores makes it difficult to deploy quickly and iterate in small batches for developers who are making native apps. These ...
01.19.2017 Inferno with Dominic Gannaway Over the past few years, React has become the most popular front end JavaScript framework. As React has matured, the open source community around React has identified areas for improvement. Since React itself is too mature to refactor completely, new ...
10.25.2016 Reactive JavaScript with Ben Lesh Netflix has a highly interactive user interface. As I move my mouse around the page, hovering over titles and inspecting movie descriptions, there is a lot going on under the hood. One component of this UI is RxJS, a library ...
10.06.2016 ScalaJS with Haoyi Li Scala is a functional programming language built on the JVM. For more than a decade, this didn’t mean anything to front end web developers. More recently, ScalaJS has brought Scala to the front end. ScalaJS is a project that compiles ...
06.13.2016 JavaScript Concurrency with Kyle Simpson JavaScript programming usually is done through the use of frameworks, such as ReactJS, AngularJS, and EmberJS. These frameworks abstract away some of the messy details of JavaScript, and simplify web development so that engineers can build products at a faster ...
06.06.2016 Google’s Polymer Project with Rob Dodson Smart phone apps have better performance than web apps. When we have an application that we use on a regular basis, we download that application to a smart phone rather than using the browser based version on our mobile browser. ...
05.10.2016 React Data Flow with Jared Forsyth React started as just a view layer–it was the V in MVC. React has moved down the stack, with Flux, Redux, GraphQL, and Relay providing opinions for how React applications should structure their data flow. Jared Forsyth works at Khan ...
04.11.2016 JavaScript and Frontend Development with Marc Grabanski “Seeing stuff happen is exciting in the early days. But when you try to be at the senior level, at the architect level, you have to understand that there is a cost to adopting a higher level abstraction.” Frontend web ...

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Java 13 with Georges Saab

Web Application Testing with Gabriel-James Safar

HTTP with Julia Evans

Gatsby with Kyle Mathews and Sam Bhagwat

Webflow: No-Code with Vlad Magdalin

WebAssembly Isolation with Tyler McMullen

Repl.it: Browser Coding with Amjad Masad

Facebook PHP with Keith Adams

Edge Storage with Steve Klabnik

Google Earth WebAssembly with Jordon Mears

Project Management with Kurt Schrader

WebAssembly Compilation with Till Schneidereit

Web Assembly Runtime with Tyler McMullen

CodeSandbox: Online Code Editor with Bas Buursma and Ives van Hoorne

WebAssembly Execution with Syrus Akbary

React Native Rearchitecture with G2i Team

Storybook: UI Engineering with Zoltan Olah

Modern Front End: React, GraphQL, VR, WebAssembly with Adam Conrad

Full Stack JavaScript with Wes Bos

JAM Stack with Phil Hawksworth

Google JavaScript with Malte Ubl

Kotlin Design with Andrey Breslav

JavaScript Engines with Mathias Bynens

WebAssembly Engineering with Ben Smith and Thomas Nattestad

WebAssembly Future with Steve Klabnik

React Native at Airbnb with Gabriel Peal

WebAssembly with Lin Clark

React Stack with G2i Team

React Components with Max Stoiber

Animating VueJS with Sarah Drasner

ReactVR with Andrew Imm

Advertiser Bidding with Praneet Sharma

GatsbyJS with Kyle Mathews

TypeScript at Slack with Felix Rieseberg

Lottie Animation with Brandon Withrow and Gabriel Peal

State of JavaScript with Sacha Greif

React Native Interfaces with Leland Richardson

React Native Ecosystem with Nader Dabit

Linux Kernel Governance with Greg Kroah-Hartman

Healthcare Engineering with Isaac Councill

The Future of React Native with Brent Vatne and Adam Perry

WebAssembly with Brendan Eich

Hybrid Mobile Apps with Adam Bradley

Inferno with Dominic Gannaway

Reactive JavaScript with Ben Lesh

ScalaJS with Haoyi Li

JavaScript Concurrency with Kyle Simpson

Google’s Polymer Project with Rob Dodson

React Data Flow with Jared Forsyth

JavaScript and Frontend Development with Marc Grabanski

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