Blockchain: What's Not To Like?
Quite a collection of dunks on blockchain, Bitcoin, ICOs, the DAO, Ethereum, etc.
talks
bitcoin
blockchain
icos
ethereum
dao
security
3 days ago by jm
'We're in a period when blockchain or "Distributed Ledger Technology" is the Solution to Everything™, so it is inevitable that it will be proposed as the solution to the problems of academic communication and digital preservation. These proposals typically assume, despite the evidence, that real-world blockchain implementations actually deliver the theoretical attributes of decentralization, immutability, anonymity, security, scalability, sustainability, lack of trust, etc. The proposers appear to believe that Satoshi Nakamoto revealed the infallible Bitcoin protocol to the world on golden tablets; they typically don't appreciate or cite the nearly three decades of research and implementation that led up to it. This talk will discuss the mis-match between theory and practice in blockchain technology, and how it applies to various proposed applications of interest to the CNI audience.'
Quite a collection of dunks on blockchain, Bitcoin, ICOs, the DAO, Ethereum, etc.
3 days ago by jm
Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance
advertising
facebook
google
internet
politics
surveillance
democracy
maciej-ceglowski
talks
morality
machine-learning
april 2017 by jm
We built the commercial internet by mastering techniques of persuasion and surveillance that we’ve extended to billions of people, including essentially the entire population of the Western democracies. But admitting that this tool of social control might be conducive to authoritarianism is not something we’re ready to face. After all, we're good people. We like freedom. How could we have built tools that subvert it?
As Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
I contend that there are structural reasons to worry about the role of the tech industry in American political life, and that we have only a brief window of time in which to fix this.
april 2017 by jm
Netty @Apple: Large Scale Deployment/Connectivity [video]
january 2016 by jm
'Norman Maurer presents how Apple uses Netty for its Java based services and the challenges of doing so, including how they enhanced performance by participating in the Netty open source community. Maurer takes a deep dive into advanced topics like JNI, JVM internals, and others.'
apple
netty
norman-maurer
java
jvm
async
talks
presentations
january 2016 by jm
Intercom Engineering Insights - Scale and Reliability 2015
december 2015 by jm
next Intercom hiring^Wevent coming up, Dec 10th in Dublin, talking about how they scale and ops their ElasticSearch and Mongo clusters
elasticsearch
mongodb
intercom
engineering
talks
dublin
december 2015 by jm
Analysing user behaviour - from histograms to random forests (PyData) at PyCon Ireland 2015 | Lanyrd
october 2015 by jm
Swrve's own Dave Brodigan on game user-data analysis techniques:
swrve
talks
user-data
big-data
spark
hadoop
machine-learning
data-science
The goal is to give the audience a roadmap for analysing user data using python friendly tools.
I will touch on many aspects of the data science pipeline from data cleansing to building predictive data products at scale.
I will start gently with pandas and dataframes and then discuss some machine learning techniques like kmeans and random forests in scikitlearn and then introduce Spark for doing it at scale.
I will focus more on the use cases rather than detailed implementation.
The talk will be informed by my experience and focus on user behaviour in games and mobile apps.
october 2015 by jm
What Happens Next Will Amaze You
september 2015 by jm
Maciej Ceglowski's latest talk, on ads, the web, Silicon Valley and government:
talks
slides
funny
ads
advertising
internet
web
privacy
surveillance
maciej
silicon-valley
'I went to school with Bill. He's a nice guy. But making him immortal is not going to make life better for anyone in my city. It will just exacerbate the rent crisis.'
september 2015 by jm
Patrick Shuff - Building A Billion User Load Balancer - SCALE 13x - YouTube
june 2015 by jm
'Want to learn how Facebook scales their load balancing infrastructure to support more than 1.3 billion users? We will be revealing the technologies and methods we use to route and balance Facebook's traffic. The Traffic team at Facebook has built several systems for managing and balancing our site traffic, including both a DNS load balancer and a software load balancer capable of handling several protocols. This talk will focus on these technologies and how they have helped improve user performance, manage capacity, and increase reliability.'
Can't find the standalone slides, unfortunately.
facebook
video
talks
lbs
load-balancing
http
https
scalability
scale
linux
Can't find the standalone slides, unfortunately.
june 2015 by jm
Stu Hood and Brian Degenhardt, Scala at Twitter, SF Scala @Twitter 20150217
march 2015 by jm
'Stu Hood and Brian Degenhardt talk about the history of Scala at Twitter, from inception until today, covering 2.10 migration, the original Alex Payne’s presentation from way back, pants, and more. The first five years of Scala at Twitter and the years ahead!'
Very positive indeed on the monorepo concept.
monorepo
talks
scala
sfscala
stu-hood
twitter
pants
history
repos
build
projects
compilation
gradle
maven
sbt
Very positive indeed on the monorepo concept.
march 2015 by jm
AWS re:Invent 2014 Video & Slide Presentation Links
november 2014 by jm
Nice work by Andrew Spyker -- this should be an official feature of the re:Invent website, really
reinvent
aws
conferences
talks
slides
ec2
s3
ops
presentations
november 2014 by jm
Building a Smarter Application Stack - DevOps Ireland
june 2014 by jm
This sounds like a very interesting Dublin meetup -- Engine Yard on thursday night:
meetups
talks
dublin
deployment
smartstack
ec2
docker
yelp
service-discovery
This month, we'll have Tomas Doran from Yelp talking about Docker, service discovery, and deployments. 'There are many advantages to a container based, microservices architecture - however, as always, there is no silver bullet. Any serious deployment will involve multiple host machines, and will have a pressing need to migrate containers between hosts at some point. In such a dynamic world hard coding IP addresses, or even host names is not a viable solution. This talk will take a journey through how Yelp has solved the discovery problems using Airbnb’s SmartStack to dynamically discover service dependencies, and how this is helping unify our architecture, from traditional metal to EC2 ‘immutable’ SOA images, to Docker containers.'
june 2014 by jm
Creative Commons event in Dublin this Friday
january 2014 by jm
'Maximising Digital Creativity, Sharing and Innovation', Event organised by Creative Commons Ireland and Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Lecture Theatre, National Gallery of Ireland, Clare Street entrance, Dublin 2, Friday 17 January 2014, 9.45 a.m. to 1 p.m. (via Darius Whelan)
creative-commons
ireland
dublin
events
talks
law
copyright
january 2014 by jm
Jeff Dean - Taming Latency Variability and Scaling Deep Learning [talk]
november 2013 by jm
'what Jeff Dean and team have been up to at Google'. Reducing request latency in a network SOA architecture using backup requests, etc., via Ilya Grigorik
youtube
talks
google
low-latency
soa
architecture
distcomp
jeff-dean
networking
november 2013 by jm
Down the Rabbit Hole
charles-nutter
java
jvm
compilation
reversing
talks
slides
october 2013 by jm
An adventure that takes you through several popular Java language features and shows how they compile to bytecode and eventually JIT to assembly code.
october 2013 by jm
Rob "b3ta" Manuel in Dublin next week
rob-manuel
b3ta
dublin
comments
internet
meetings
talks
lecool
april 2013 by jm
The Bottom Half Of The Internet -- "Racism; typos; filth; spam; ignorance; rage – that's all the bottom half of the internet is good for, right? Rob Manuel wants you to question the internet dictum, most beloved of high-profile columnists, that you should ignore all of the comments all of the time. The 'war on comments', he reckons, might just be an echo of a fourth estate that's having trouble adjusting to the idea of an unwashed public disagreeing with their sacred opinions. Sous les pavés, la plage."
On Tuesday, le cool Dublin & Pilcrow present SPIEL. Rob Manuel is the flashy animator behind B3ta and he's joined by Ed Melvin, who wants to educate you on 'The Unreal Engines' of virtual currencies and economies.
april 2013 by jm
Performance Testing Java Applications [talk]
march 2013 by jm
Martin "Disruptor" Thompson on performance testing.
testing
performance
towatch
talks
video
slides
infoq
qcon
This talk explores when to start performance testing, how to avoid the common pitfalls, how to profile when the results cause your team to pull a funny face, and what you can do about that funny face. Specific issues to Java and managed runtimes in general will be explored, but if other languages are your poison, don't be put off as much of the content can be applied to any development.
march 2013 by jm
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