code.talks 2014
2014-10-09..2014-10-10
Hamburg, Germany
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| I see your 127.32+, a tale of rationals | Xavier Noria | 38m |
A Rails betting site requires a zero-sum betting ledger and a three‑field calculator where stake, odds and profit are editable; floating point fails, integers… | ||
| Hand Grenades for Developers | Nils Lauk | 37m |
The talk describes how persistent conflict between developers and designers wastes time and quality and proposes concrete fixes: schedule a recurring Front vs… | ||
| Open Commerce | Sebastian Betz | 34m |
About You presents an open developer platform that enables external apps to sell its product catalogue via a Merchant API implemented in Python (bottle.py)… | ||
| How to Build a Data Warehouse? | Martin Loetzsch | 32m |
Argues that startups build a practical warehouse with simple SQL and scripts instead of big BI vendors, using a fact table and simple aggregations as the core… | ||
| Speeding up Code, Webpages and Teams | Christian Hardenberg | 45m |
Rocket Internet cuts latency with concrete tooling and rules: a bad join that counts in 8.5s becomes 2.5ms by proper indexing, frontends handle 5,000 RPM per… | ||
| Are Developers Better Entrepreneurs? | Heiko Hubertz | 38m |
Argues that software developers often make strong tech entrepreneurs because they identify technical leverage, can hire and evaluate engineers, and drive rapid… | ||
| Guerrilla software design: doing it wrong and getting it right | Marco Cecconi | 34m |
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"Guerrilla software design: doing it wrong and getting it right" by Marco Cecconi | ||
| Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana | Alexander Reelsen | 49m |
Introduces the ELK stack—Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana—explaining how these technologies work together for centralized logging and search. Covers using… | ||
| 10 Lessons Learned Growing from 1 to 1000 | Stefan Klemm | 51m |
Describes how a small studio scaled to ~1000 staff after a 2010 merger with Goodgame, using concrete operational changes: tuning game servers to handle about… | ||
| What Doesn't Fit Gets Made Responsive | Christoph Reinartz | 38m |
Christoph Reinartz explains making non-responsive web layouts responsive by retrofitting existing sites. He covers practical techniques and tools for adapting… | ||
| Machine Learning with Artificial Neural Networks in Clojure | Stefan Richter | 44m |
Presents a hand-implemented artificial neural network library written in Clojure using Clojure protocols to encode forward and backpropagation equations, plus… | ||
| Welcome | Tarek Müller, Sebastian Betz | 07m |
The conference opens late due to an internet outage that delayed registration and led organizers to extend badge grace periods and move distribution of 1,000… | ||
| COMPANY REFACTORING | Lars Jankowfsky, Thorsten Rinne | 51m |
Legacy PHP4/MySQL4 monolith serves ~3M uniques/month with 2.4M LOC and peaks of ~3,000 reads/sec causing daily micro‑outages; code only runs on production over… | ||
| Code and Society | Nico Lumma | 51m |
Argues for urgent teaching of programming as a second language, citing concrete technological wins like a 1997 student-built dorm network delivering 100 Mbit… | ||
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