💥 Tech Talks Weekly #28

2024-08-22: Featuring all the newly uploaded talks from GopherCon UK 2024, PyData Eindhoven 2024, Chain React 2024 and many more!

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Welcome to the 28. issue of Tech Talks Weekly! This week, we have plenty of new talks from 15 conferences including GopherCon UK 2024, PyData Eindhoven 2024, Chain React 2024 and many more!

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🏆 Featured talks of the week

Here are the must-watch talks uploaded since the last issue:

1. "How To Reduce Cold Starts for Java Serverless Applications in AWS • Vadym Kazulkin • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 29s

   (…) Java is known for its high cold start times which may heavily impact the latencies of your application. But the times change: Community and AWS as a cloud provider improve things steadily for Java developers. In this talk, we look at best practices, features and the possibilities AWS offers Java developers to reduce the cold start times like GraalVM Native Image and AWS Lambda SnapStart based on on FirecrackerVM snapshot and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) project. [...]

2. "Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database" ⸱ Aug 20, 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 15s

   James Munro discusses ArcticDB and the practicalities of building a performant time-series datastore and why transactions, particularly the Isolation in ACID is just not worth it.

3. "Debugging Go Applications - Matt Boyle, Cloudflare" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 18 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 42s

   In this talk, I will perform a live demo of different debugging techniques that Go developers can use to figure out why their application is not performing optimally (or even correctly). (…)

4. "Vincent D. Warmerdam - Scikit-Learn can do THAT?!" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 34m 54s

   Many of us know scikit-learn for it's ability to construct pipelines that can do .fit().predict(). It's an amazing feature for sure. But once you dive into the codebase ... you realise that there is just so much more. This talk will be an attempt at demonstrating some extra features in scikit-learn, and it's ecosystem, that are less common but deserve to be in the spotlight.

5. "RPC in WhatsApp - Zeyu Zhang | Code BEAM America 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 35m 42s

   In this talk, we will cover multiple areas in WhtasApp's infrastructure related to the lifecycle of a request flowing between our Erlang services. It incudes how to overcome the limitation and scale our cluster to more than 40 thousand nodes using Erlang Distribution, the service discovery and routing mechanism, the job dispatching and queueing model, as well as the bottlenecks and overload protections.

📆 New talks

Here’s a list of all the recently uploaded talks since the last issue, grouped by conference and ordered by the number of views for your convenience.

GopherCon UK 2024

1. "Event Driven Workflows - Andrew Wormald, Luno" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 18 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 16s

2. "Debugging Go Applications - Matt Boyle, Cloudflare" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 18 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 42s

3. "Using Go to Scale Audit Logging at Cloudflare - Arti Phugat, Cloudflare" ⸱ +700 views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 26m 00s

4. "Boost application performance with profile guided optimization Michael Pratt, Google" ⸱ +700 views ⸱ 18 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 57s

5. "Go Channels slow down with more CPUs - Grant Stephens, Fastly" ⸱ +700 views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 38m 26s

6. "Understanding the Go runtime, Jesús Espino, Mattermost" ⸱ +600 views ⸱ 18 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 38s

7. "The Key to Go Efficiency is Just a Few Go Runtime Metrics Away! - Bartłomiej Płotka & Arianna Vespri" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 55m 36s

8. "AI is coming for your job - Adam Scholey, Benefex" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 18 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 56s

9. "The Business of Go - Cameron Balahan, Google" ⸱ +400 views ⸱ 18 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 21s

10. "Go for serverless functions - Edson Ticona Zegarra" ⸱ +400 views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 41m 23s

11. "Decoding AI: A Go Programmer's Perspective - Beth Anderson, BBC" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 18 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 57s

12. "Improving your code craft with generative AI - Liam Hampton, Microsoft" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 18 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 54m 11s

PyData Eindhoven 2024

1. "Vincent D. Warmerdam - Scikit-Learn can do THAT?!" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 34m 54s

2. "Pedro Tabacof - How I lost 1000€ betting on CS:GO with machine learning and Python" ⸱ +700 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 27s

3. "Sam Aaron - Sonic Pi - Live Coding as a tool for next-gen education." ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 01h 10m 34s

4. "Maurice du Mée - Software at ASML: the Force behind making microchips" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 50m 31s

5. "Yannis Moudere - Enhancing Event Analysis at Scale: Leveraging Tracking Data in Sports" ⸱ +200 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 41m 15s

6. "Maria Medina - Risks and Mitigations for a Safe and Responsible AI" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 34m 32s

7. "Ennia Suijkerbuijk - Evaluating LLM Frameworks" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 42s

8. "M.Brouwer, M.Kempe-CV at the Dutch Tennis Federation: Utilizing YOLO to create insights for coaches" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 16s

9. "Ferdinand Schenck - 🌳 The taller the tree, the harder the fall. Determining tree height from space.." ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 19s

10. "Dmitriy Pastushenkov, Adrian Boguszewski - Cloud? No Thanks! I’m Gonna Run GenAI on My AI PC" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 09s

11. "Marc Nientker - Causal Forecasting: How to disentangle causal effects, while controlling for ..." ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 08s

12. "N. Alagoz, A. Mahfoudhi-Maximizing marketplace experimentation: switchback design for small samples" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 36s

13. "Sanne van den Bogaart - Explainable AI in the LIME-light" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 49s

14. "Nina van Diermen - BERTopic to accelerate Ukrainian aid by the Red Cross" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 54s

15. "Rob Claessens - Predicting the Spring Classics of cycling with my first neural network" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 34m 26s

Chain React 2024

1. "Gant Laborde - The React Native Paradox (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 22s

2. "Robin Heinze - Sweetening React Native Development With Ignite (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 58s

3. "Neil Dhar - Optimizing With Static Hermes (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 51s

4. "Sarah Guthals & Krystof Woldrich - It Worked on My iPhone 15 Pro Max… (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 35s

5. "Erik Thorelli - Real Strategies To Modernize a Legacy React Native Project (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 31s

6. "Rafael Mendiola & Kyle Rosenberg (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 15s

7. "Israa Taha - No App Center? No Problem! (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 13m 27s

8. "Dan Stepanov - Being a Good Platform Citizen (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 28m 14s

9. "Michał Chudziak and Ada Gawrysiak (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 27s

10. "Tom Targosz - Stability First: Building React Native Apps That Scale (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 23m 25s

11. "Belén Carozo - Visualizing the Impact of React Native’s New Architecture (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 21m 09s

12. "Eric Fahsl - Build a React Native App for TV in 15 minutes (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 33s

13. "Summer Knight - Optimizing React Native Performance (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 26m 14s

14. "Kacper Kapuściak - Microinteractions: The Little Big Things (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 20m 48s

15. "Shiven Mian & Nikolai Aristo - React Native for Desktop in Microsoft Word (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 53s

16. "Jack Herrington - React Native Local First Semantic Search (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 21m 59s

17. "Colin Gray - Default to Consistent (Chain React 2024)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 58s

QCon 2024

1. "Uncomplex: Modern Hardware for Better Software" ⸱ Aug 22, 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 23s

2. "Rethinking Connectivity at the Edge: Scaling Fleets of Low-Powered Devices Using NATS.io" ⸱ Aug 21, 2024 ⸱ 00h 40m 14s

3. "Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database" ⸱ Aug 20, 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 15s

4. "Incremental Data Processing with Apache Hudi" ⸱ Aug 16, 2024 ⸱ 00h 41m 53s

5. "Thinking Like an Architect" ⸱ Aug 15, 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 33s

Build Stuff Conference 2024

1. "Succeeding at Reactive Architecture | Ian Cooper | Build Stuff Conference" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 41m 36s

Code BEAM America 2024 / Europe 2023

1. "RPC in WhatsApp - Zeyu Zhang | Code BEAM America 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 35m 42s

2. "Khepri: Replacing Mnesia in RabbitMQ by Michael Davis | Code BEAM Europe 2023" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 20m 16s

3. "ChatGPT as your Erlang coach by Georgiana Chelu | Code BEAM Europe 2023" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 18 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 08s

CppCon 2024

1. "Interview With Phil Nash (Accelerated TDD: For More Productive C++) - CppCon 2024" ⸱ +600 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 13m 04s

Data Science Conference ADRIA 2024

1. "Tired of coding? No problem. AI uprising for the developers | Radovan Bacovic | DSC ADRIA 24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 08s

2. "Fireside Chat: The Importance of National Investment in NLP Development | Leo Mrsic | DSC ADRIA 24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 16 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 28m 39s

3. "A Guide to Modern Data Stack | Aya Khaled & Essam Ammar | DSC ADRIA 24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 01h 10m 54s

Droidcon Italy 2023

1. "Cha-Ching Chronicles: Boosting Revenue with Adv Tech Transformation! | Droidcon Italy 2023 Talk" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 23s

2. "How Google’s Relay Creates Synergy between Designers and Developers! | Droidcon Italy 2023 Talk" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 22 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 00s

GOTO 2024

1. "Bottom-up Architecture: Bridging the Architecture-Code Gap • Oliver Drotbohm • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +5k views ⸱ 16 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 15s

2. "Inside GPT – Large Language Models Demystified • Alan Smith • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 47m 21s

3. "EDA Panel • R. Sethi, S. Brisals, L. Mezzalira, M. Gasch, J. Beswick & E. Johnson • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 15 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 40m 17s

4. "How To Reduce Cold Starts for Java Serverless Applications in AWS • Vadym Kazulkin • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 29s

5. "Dynamic Teams: Reteaming Patterns & Practices • Heidi Helfand & Charles Humble • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 47m 03s

6. "Insights on Leadership & Innovation • Gene Kim & Charles Humble" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 16 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 08s

7. "Bootstrapping Microservices • Ashley Davis & Damian Maclennan • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 22 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 38m 52s

JCon Europe 2024

1. "Going beyond ORMs | Andres Almiray (EN)" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 15 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 54s

2. "Java 8 to 17+ Upgrade - Lessons Learned and Best Practices | Volker Simonis (EN)" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 50m 13s

3. "Jakarta EE 11 - Performance and Developer Productivity | Ivar Grimstad (EN)" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 16 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 12s

4. "How to Reduce the Footprint of Your Spring Boot Applications | Martin Lippert & Sandra Ahlgrimm (EN)" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 39m 12s

5. "Enterprise Runtimes im Vergleich: Spring Boot vs. Quarkus | Dirk Weil & Hendrik Jungnitsch (DE)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 20s

NDC Oslo 2024

1. "Goodbye Azure Kubernetes Service! Hello Azure Container Apps! - Johnny Hooyberghs - NDC Oslo 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 16 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 54m 35s

2. "From Dreams to Reality: The Magic of 3D Printing - Elle Hunt & Troy Hunt - NDC Oslo 2024" ⸱ +400 views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 01h 01m 57s

PyCon US 2024

1. "Talks - Yury Selivanov: Overcoming GIL with subinterpreters and immutability" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 28s

2. "Talks - Tian Gao: What makes a Python debugger possible and how can we make it 100x faster" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 28m 07s

SF Python 2024

1. "Ari Lamstein - A Python App to Explore how Covid Changed America - SF Python @ Sentry (2024-06-12)" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 20 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 18m 15s

CSS Day 2024

1. "The “Other” C in CSS | Sara Soueidan | CSS Day 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 19 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 55m 56s

Enjoy the weekend ☀️ and see you next week!