Awesome Programming Presentations

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Table of Contents

• General
• Programming Languages
  • Bash
  • CPP
  • CSS
  • Elixir
  • Elm
  • Erlang
  • F#
  • Go
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Scala
• APIs
• Artificial Intelligence
• Paradigms and Principles
  • Event-Driven Architecture
    • CQRS and Event Sourcing
  • Functional Programming
  • Programming Language Principles
• Cloud Computing
• Computer Security
• Cryptocurrency
• Database Systems
• DevOps
• Distributed Systems
• Microservices
• Operating Systems
• Software Testing
• Miscellaneous
  • Fun to Watch
  • IDEs and Editors
  • Version Control
• Contribute
• License

General

• A Conversation with Linus Torvalds
• Building and Motivating Engineering Teams - by Camille Fournier
• Evolutionary Software Architectures - by Neal Ford
• Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos - by Bryan Cantrill
• Growing a Language by Guy Steele
• How to Get a Job at the Big 4 - Amazon, Facebook, Google & Microsoft by Sean Lee
• I See What You Mean - by Peter Alvaro
• I want you to contribute to open source by Max Stoiber
• It's Dangerous to Go Alone: Battling the Invisible Monsters in Tech - by Julie Pagano
• Linux Kernel Development - by Greg Kroah-Hartman
• Moving Fast At Scale - by Randy Shoup
• Overkill - by Katrina Owen
• System We Love
• Systems programming as a swiss army knife - by Julia Evans
• The art of destroying software - by Greg Young
• The Future of Programming - by Bob Martin
• The Future of Programming - by Bret Victor
• The Mess We're In - by Joe Armstrong
• The Motivation for a Monolithic Codebase - by Rachel Potvin
• The Myth of the Genius Programmer - by Brian Fitzpatrick & Ben Collins-Sussman
• Thinking Above the Code - by Leslie Lamport
• You can be a kernel hacker! - by Julia Evans

Programming Languages

Bash

• Introduction to Advanced Bash Usage - by James Pannacciulli
• The Functional Tao of Bash - by Garrett Smith

CPP

• C++ as a "Live at Head" Language - by Titus Winters
• CPU Caches and Why You Care - by Scott Meyers
• Data-Oriented Design and C++ - by Mike Acton

CSS

• 3.14 Things I Didn't Know About CSS - CSSconf EU 2014
• CSS for Software Engineers for CSS Developers - by Harry Roberts
• CSS Performance Tooling - by Addy Osmani
• Refactoring CSS Without Losing Your Mind - by Harry Roberts
• Your CSS is a Mess - by Jonathan Snook
• Your Very Own Component Library - by Alex Sexton

Elixir

• A GraphQL-on-Elixir Primer - by Bruce Williams
• A Practical Guide to Elixir Protocols - by Kevin Rockwood
• Building beautiful systems with Phoenix contexts - by Andrew Hao
• Building Umbrella Project - by Wojtek Mach
• Consistent, Distributed Elixir - by Chris Keathley
• Debugging Techniques in Elixir - by Erich Kist
• Dialyzer: Optimistic Type Checking for Erlang and Elixir - by Jason Voegele
• Discovering Processes - by Saša Jurić
• Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - by Daniel Azuma
• Don't Write Macros But Do Learn How They Work - by Jesse Anderson
• ElixirDaze 2018 Keynote - by Rob Conery
• Elixir by the Bellyful - by Bryan Hunter
• Elixir in Elixir - by Jay Hayes
• Elixir Native UI - by Boyd Multerer
• Elixir Power Tracing - by Gabi Zuniga
• GenStage in the Kitchen - by Claudio Ortolina
• Go vs Elixir: A concurrency comparison - by Anna Neyzberg and Hannah Howard
• High availability with Elixir and Erlang - by Saša Jurić
• Introducing HDD: Hughes Driven Development - by José Valim
• Let's Get Functional With Elixir! - by Nate Taylor
• Metaprogramming Elixir - by Chris McCord
• Micropatterns: Learning to Reach Quickly for the Right Tool - by Cameron Price
• OOP in Elixir - Lightning Talk - by Wojtek Mach
• Phoenix - Productive. Reliable. Fast - by Chris McCord
• Phoenix 1.3 - by Chris McCord
• Phoenix after 100000 lines - by Renan Ranelli
• Phoenix Is Not Your Application - by Lance Halvorsen
• Plugging the Security Holes in Your Phoenix Application - by Griffin Byatt
• Processing 2.7M Images with Elixir (vs Ruby) - by David Padilla
• Profiling and Tracing for all with Xprof - by Péter Gömöri
• QuickCheck for Elixir - Generate Tests Automatically - by Thomas Arts
• Releases and Elixir: Envisioning a more perfect union - by Paul Schoenfelder
• Securing Elixir Applications - by Bram Verburg (Applies to Erlang as well in general)
• Solid Ground - by Saša Jurić
• Taking Elixir to the Metal with Rust - by Sonny Scroggin
• The Feature That No One Knew About in Elixir 1.5 - by José Valim
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Unexpected - by Fred Hebert
• The Joy of Connecting Elixir to the Physical World - by Frank Hunleth
• The Soul of Erlang and Elixir - by Saša Juric
• Thinking In Ecto - by Darin Wilson
• Well Behaved Native Implemented Functions for Elixir - by Andrew Bennett
• Writing an Editor in Elixir - by Ian Duggan

Elm

• Demystifying Parsers - by Tereza Sokol

Erlang

• 26 years with Erlang or How I got my grey hairs - by Joe Armstrong
• Erlang: Evolution - by Robert Virding
• Erlang Performance Lab - by Michal Slaski
• How We Program Multicores - by Joe Armstrong
• Scaling Distributed Erlang - by Zandra Norman
• Scaling Erlang cluster to 10,000 nodes - by Maxim Fedorov
• The Zen of Erlang - by Fred Herbert

F#

• Understanding parser combinators: a deep dive - by Scott Wlaschin

Go

• 7 common mistakes in Go and when to avoid them - by Steve Francia
• Concurrency Is Not Parallelism - by Rob Pike
• Crypto For Go Developers - by George Tankersley
• Do not fear first class functions - by Dave Cheney
• Go Proverbs - by Rob Pike
• "go test -race" Under the Hood - by Kavya Joshi
• How to write your own Go tool - by Fatih Arslan
• Inside the Map Implementation - by Keith Randall
• Program your next server in Go - by Sameer Ajmani
• Self Deploying Go Applications - by Kelsey Hightower
• Simplicity is Complicated - by Rob Pike
• Stupid Gopher Tricks - by Andrew Gerrand
• The Design of the Go Assembler - by Rob Pike
• The Scandalous Story of the Dreadful Code Written by the Best of Us - by Katrina Owen

JavaScript

• 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - by Ryan Dahl
• A Cartoon Intro to Fiber - by Lin Clark
• A Cartoon Intro to WebAssembly - by Lin Clark
• Benchmarking Javascript - by Vyacheslav Egorov
• Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong! - by Brian Lonsdorf
• How to Build a Compiler - by James Kyle
• Immutable Data and React - by Lee Byron
• In The Loop - by Jake Archibald
• Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript by Anjana Vakil
• Performance and benchmarking - by Vyacheslav Egorov
• Really. Javascript. - by Douglas Crockford
• RxJS + Redux + React = Amazing! - by Jay Phelps
• The myth of the "Real JavaScript Developer" - by Brenna O'Brien
• V8, modern JavaScript, and beyond - by Seth Thompson
• What the heck is the event loop anyway? - by Philip Roberts

PHP

• 25 Years of PHP - by Rasmus Lerdorf
• PHP in 2017 - by Rasmus Lerdorf

Python

• 10 Tips for Pythonic Code - by Michael Kennedy
• A tale of concurrency through creativity in Python: a deep dive into how gevent works - by Kavya Joshi
• Beyond PEP 8 - Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - by Raymond Hettinger
• Builtin Superheroes - by David Beazley
• Crypto 101 - by Laurens Van Houtven
• Decorators: A Powerful Weapon in your Python Arsenal - by Colton Myers
• Fear and Awaiting in Async: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Coroutine Dream - by David Beazley
• Learn Python Through Public Data Hacking - by David Beazley
• Modern Dictionaries - by Raymond Hettinger
• Modules and Packages: Live and Let Die! - by David Beazley
• Python asyncio - by David Beazley
• Python Concurrency From the Ground Up - by David Beazley
• Statistics for Hackers - by Jake Vanderplas
• Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python - by Raymond Hettinger
• Type Hints - by Guido van Rossum
• Understanding the Python GIL - by David Beazley
• What Does It Take To Be An Expert At Python? - by James Powell

Ruby

• In Relentless Pursuit of REST - by Derek Prior
• Let's build a blockchain! — A mini-cryptocurrency in Ruby - by Haseeb Qureshi
• Nothing is Something - RailsConf 2015 by Sandi Metz

Scala

• Striving to Make Things Simple and Fast - by Phil Bagwell

APIs

• How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters - by Joshua Bloch

Artificial Intelligence

• Large-Scale Deep Learning with TensorFlow - by Jeff Dean
• Self-Driving Lessons from Comma AI - by George Hotz
• TensorFlow and Deep Learning without a PhD - by Martin Gorner
• TensorFlow and Deep Learning without a PhD, Part 2 - by Martin Gorner

Paradigms and Principles

Event-Driven Architecture

• Creating event-driven microservices: the why, how and what - by Andrew Schofield
• The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture - by Martin Fowler

CQRS and Event Sourcing

• A Decade of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing - by Greg Young
• CQRS and Event Sourcing - by Greg Young
• DDD, event sourcing and CQRS – theory and practice - by Golo Roden
• Scaling Event Sourcing for Netflix Downloads - by Phillipa Avery and Robert Reta

Functional Programming

• Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP - by Evan Czaplicki
• Functional Programming Patterns for Mere Mortals - by Daniel Chambers
• Railway Oriented Programming - error handling in functional languages - by Scott Wlaschin
• Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? - by Richard Feldman

Programming Language Principles

• Clean Code - Uncle Bob - by Robert Cecil Martin
• Types, and why you should care - by Yaron Minsky

Cloud Computing

• 12-Factor Apps and the Hashistack - by Kelsey Hightower
• Achieving Rapid Response Times in Large Online Services - by Jeff Dean
• A Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer - AWS re:Invent 2015 - by Dave Hahn
• Build user trust: running containers securely with Google Container Engine - by Alex Mohr and Jessie Frazelle
• Building Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned - by Jeff Dean
• Cluster Management at Google with Borg - by John Wilkes
• Container management and deployment: from development to production - by Kelsey Hightower
• Infrastructure as Code Might Literally Be Impossible - by Joe Damato
• Infrastructure as Code Might Literally Be Impossible Part Two - by Joe Damato
• Scaling at GitHub - by Patrick Reynolds
• Scaling Redis at Twitter - by Yao Yu
• Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users - by Joel Williams

Computer Security

• Esoteric sub-domain enumeration techniques - by Bharath Kumar
• Knocking my neighbors kids cruddy drone offline - by Michael Robinson
• OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (in plain English) - by Nate Barbettini
• Pwned By the owner: What happens when you steal a hackers computer - Defcon 18 - by Zoz

Cryptocurrency

• Ethereum in 25 Minutes, Version MMXVII - by Vitalik Buterin

Database Systems

• Efficient Time Series with PostgreSQL - by Steve Simpson
• Modern SQL in PostgreSQL - by Markus Winand
• PostgreSQL + ZFS: Best Practices and Standard Procedures - by Sean Chittenden
• Things every developer absolutely, positively needs to know about database indexing - by Kai Sassnowski
• Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities - by Martin Kleppmann
• Tuning PostgreSQL for High Write Workloads - by Grant McAlister

DevOps

• How Netflix Thinks of DevOps - by Dave Hahn
• Modern Continuous Delivery - by Ken Mugrage
• Tracing, Fast and Slow: Digging into & improving your web service’s performance - by Lynn Root

Distributed Systems

• Applying the Saga Pattern - by Caitie McCaffrey
• A Brief History of Distributed Programming - by Christopher Meiklejohn, Caitie McCaffrey
• A Tour Through the Distributed System Zoo - by Mariano Guerra
• Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency - by Martin Kleppmann
• CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency - by Martin Kleppmann
• Distribution, Scale and Flexibility with ZeroMQ - by Pieter Hintjens
• Everything Will Flow - by Zach Tellman
• Jepsen 9: A Fsyncing Feeling - by Kyle Kingsbury
• Practical Load Balancing with Consistent Hashing - by Andrew Rodland
• The Anatomy of a Distributed System - by Tyler McMullen
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems - by Alvaro Videla

Microservices

• Deploying And Scaling Microservices - by Sam Newman
• Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way - by Michael Bryzek
• Globally scalable microservices with Container Engine & Cloud Load Balancing - by Sandip Dinesh
• Mastering Chaos - A Netflix Guide to Microservices - by Josh Evans
• Microservices at Netflix Scale: Principles, Tradeoffs & Lessons Learned - by R. Meshenberg
• Principles Of Microservices - by Sam Newman
• The Seven (More) Deadly Sins of Microservices - by Daniel Bryant

Operating Systems

Unix

• Early days of Unix and design of sh - by Stephen R. Bourne
• Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD Important Milestones and Lesson - by Diomidis Spinellis

Software Testing & Automation

• Integrated Tests Are A Scam - by J.B. Rainsberger
• Modern Web Testing and Automation with Puppeteer - by Andrey Lushnikov and Joel Einbinder
• The Magic Tricks of Testing - by Sandi Metz

Miscellaneous

Fun to Watch

• Best Practices for Software Development - by Chet Haase
• Computers are a sadness, I am the cure by James Mickens
• Developer Stand up Comedy - by Scott Hanselman
• If you wish to learn ES6/2015 from scratch, you must first invent the universe - by Ashley Williams
• It Was Never Going to Work, So Let’s Have Some Tea - by James Mickens
• Life As A Developer: My Code Does Not Work Because I Am A Victim Of Complex Societal Factors That Are Beyond My Control - by James Mickens
• Life is Terrible: Lets Talk About The Web - by James Mickens
• Not Even Close: The State of Computer Security - by James Mickens
• Perfectly Executing The Wrong Plan - by Tomer Sharon
• Programming is terrible — Lessons learned from a life wasted. - by Thomas Figg
• Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords - by Tom Scott
• Tail Call Optimization: The Musical!! - by Anjana Vakil & Natalia Margolis
• The Birth & Death of Javascript - by Gary Bernhardt
• The Social Coding Contract - by Justin Searls
• The Worst Programming Language by Mark Rendle
• Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler - by Scott Hanselman
• WAT - by Gary Bernhardt
• What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty? - by Jacob Thornton
• WTFJS - by Brian Leroux

IDEs and Editors

• 7 Habits For Effective Text Editing - by Bram Moolenaar
• How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim) - by Max Cantor
• Learning Vim in a Week - by Mike Coutermarsh
• Mastering the Vim Language - by Chris Toomey
• More Instantly Better Vim - by Damian Conway
• Precision Editing at the Speed of Thought - by Drew Neil
• Going Mouseless with Vim, Tmux, and Hotkeys - by Leeren Chang
• vim + tmux - by Nick Nisi
• Xi: an editor for the next 20 years - by Raph Levien

Version Control

• Dissecting Git's Guts - by Emily Xie
• Git - by Linus Torvalds

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