Nerdearla 2020
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Myths and Truths About Starting in Systems After Thirty | Denise Neustadt, Bel Rey | 37m |
The presenters discuss common concerns and misconceptions about starting a career in software after age 30, especially for people returning after a long break… | ||
| 10 things a developer should know about databases | Carlos Tutte | 35m |
Covers ten concrete database rules: choose the engine to match workload (relational for joins, document stores for schemaless data, columnar for analytics) and… | ||
| COVID-19 impact on RIPE Atlas #internet #measurements | Agustin Formoso, Michela Galante | 37m |
Analysis uses RIPE Atlas active measurements (pings, traceroutes from probes and anchors) and RIS BGP routing data to show how COVID-19 moved traffic from… | ||
| Technical writing in English | Tomas Fernandez | 36m |
Provides practical methods and resources to improve technical writing in English, based on one year of experience producing blogs, articles, tutorials and a… | ||
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| Backstage #Nerdearla 2020 - This was the seventh edition! | 03m | |
A backstage recap of Nerdearla 2020 presents event metrics: the seventh edition (first held virtually) ran five days with over 21,000 active users, more than… | ||
| Special 1 - 23/10/2020 | Clarisa Herrera, Sebastián De Toma, Vicky Guareschi, Claudio Leyer, Gabriel Eisbruch, Patricio Traverso, Pablo Casas, Joe Karlsson, María Luján Oulton, Diego Golombek | 02h 29m |
This episode is a Flow special from Nerdearla 2020 hosted by Clarisa Herrera and Sebastián De Toma, containing interviews and technical talks. It features… | ||
| Special 2 - 24/10/2020 | Melisa Avolio, Sebastián De Toma, Valentin muro, Cecilia García, Carlos Sarraute, Ezequiel Gutesman, Norberto Javier Enrique Geiler, Guadalpue Nogués, Valeria Edelsztein, Elder Moraes, Vicky Guareschi | 02h 37m |
A special Nerdearla Flow episode hosted by Melisa Avolio and Sebastián De Toma features short segments on boredom by Valentín Muro; a Data Science talk about… | ||
| Divide and conquer, or how to split your web app experiences into micro-frontends | Mariano Vazquez | 36m |
The talk explains why a single monolithic UI can be a problem even when backends use microservices, and describes the real challenges that motivate splitting a… | ||
| SRE fundamentals: a lightning rod against storms in the cloud | Marga Manterola | 25m |
Introduces core Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices for building and maintaining more reliable cloud applications, with concrete real-world examples… | ||
| Rocking Innovation | Sergio Mastrogiovanni | 32m |
How digital transformation became urgent during COVID-19, and how data science and technology careers let companies and professionals reinvent themselves to… | ||
| Learning to Read in the Digital Age | Eliana Moccia, Alejandro Taboada, Gastón Armando | 34m |
Santander Tecnología describes building AI that reads human handwritten text so machines can understand paper-based writing. The talk covers using machine… | ||
| Making VR More Interesting With React and Brain.js | Milecia McGregor | 32m |
Live demo builds a browser VR search-and-find game using A-Frame and an environment package, with a Node backend using Brain.js and node express to adapt… | ||
| NERD SLEEP. Sleeping in Times of Uncertainty | Diego Golombek | 35m |
Examines sleep science for tech-oriented people, explaining why, when, how long and how we sleep in normal and pandemic conditions; covers the biological need… | ||
| With great privilege comes great responsibility | Daiana Vainstein | 24m |
Frames workplace inequality as a center–periphery hierarchy and highlights a concrete disparity in life expectancy for trans people (~35–40 years versus 70–80… | ||
| HR, the Illusion of Added Value | Julia Cacciapuoti | 31m |
Examines conventional HR in tech and questions the idea of being a “strategic partner” to the business. Julia Cacciapuoti names which HR skills and mindsets… | ||
| Internet for What Things?? | Guillermo Jacobi | 33m |
Guillermo Jacobi describes practical uses of Internet-connected monitoring at scale, asking what you would monitor if you had $1 million and what data and… | ||
| Reactive programming for massive mobile multiplayer games | Lucas Marino, Diego Barberio | 35m |
An in-device ad SDK for mobile games combines waterfall sequencing and real-time bidding across about 20 providers using reactive libraries (RxJava/RxSwift via… | ||
| A New Way to Build OCI Images Using Buildkit | Marcos Nils | 35m |
Introduces BuildKit as a more efficient, feature-rich alternative to docker build for creating OCI-format container images. Covers both practical and… | ||
| A Guide to Event-driven SRE-inspired DevOps | Andreas Grabner | 36m |
Claims that 95% pipeline maintenance wastes engineering time and that manual validation consumes ~80% of wait time, then shows Keptn as an event-driven control… | ||
| FreeBSD: Code, Community and Collaboration | Deb Goodkin | 41m |
FreeBSD presents itself as a complete, integrated OS with a permissive BSD license, a ~5.5M-line kernel versus Linux’s ~27M, and about 33,000 packages… | ||
| Data-driven Design: How to Become an Influencer in Your Organization | Laura de Miguel, Adri Calero | 34m |
Shows how UX designers and product managers can use metrics daily to align product and UX decisions and to influence organizational choices. Presents examples… | ||
| Migrating Testing to Open Source | Federico Toledo | 35m |
Practical guidance on migrating testing processes to open-source tools, covering functional, automated and performance testing. It reviews available… | ||
| Artificial Intelligence as a Multiplier of Human Capability | Nicolás D’Ippolito | 31m |
ASAPP’s goal is to amplify people’s abilities by using artificial intelligence as an assistant/exoskeleton. The talk explains that achieving products that… | ||
| Mind the gap: closing the rift between front and back | Marcos Navarro | 28m |
Presents a front-end scaling approach that splits the app into independently owned modules wired together by deep-link contracts, supported by shared module… | ||
| How to Save Millions of Dollars Using Kubernetes in Production | Pablo Fredrikson | 31m |
Pablo Fredrikson explains how his team cut over one million dollars from their AWS bill by optimizing resource usage with Kubernetes and related tooling. The… | ||
| The Easy and the Not-so-Easy of Indoor Tracking and Localization Systems | Florencia Giotti, Nahuel Pelli | 34m |
Covers indoor localization technologies (Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, UWB) and implementation guidelines, explaining positioning methodologies such as Time of… | ||
| Centralized Logging Patterns | Emanuil Tolev | 30m |
Five concrete patterns for centralizing logs with Elastic Stack: parsing raw files via Filebeat → Logstash → Elasticsearch → Kibana (fixes multi-line stack… | ||
| Enough with agility | Eze Apfel, José Sahad | 34m |
Argues that modern “agility” has become a rigid methodology focused on sprints, endless backlogs and rituals rather than customer outcomes. Recommends… | ||
| How to Turn an Elephant into a Greyhound: “Episode II, the Awakening of Elsa” | Norberto Javier Enrique Geiler | 36m |
A technology leader from Santander describes transforming a traditional bank into an open financial services platform (the ‘elephant’ becoming a greyhound) by… | ||
| The Not-so-Secret Ingredient for Successful Machine Learning: Software Engineering | Carlos Iguaran | 38m |
ASAPP’s product core is AI, mostly machine learning, and the talk explains that software engineering is the central component for turning daily ML improvement… | ||
| IaC – Improving and Securing Infrastructure Provisioning in the Cloud | Diego Rodríguez | 34m |
Covers Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud provisioning, explaining its advantages over traditional manual deployment and management of infrastructure… | ||
| An Intro To IoT (Internet of Toilets 🚽); Or How I Built an IoT Kitty Litter Box with JavaScript | Joe Karlsson | 32m |
A working IoT litter box built with a Raspberry Pi and JavaScript uses Johnny-Five and raspi-io for hardware events, a magnetic switch for maintenance mode… | ||
| Behind the Scenes of React: Tips to Master Hooks | Guadalupe Lazzo, Sabrina del Poy, Agustina Demaldé | 36m |
React Hooks can become hard to manage without a scalable architecture; the talk presents practical tips and lessons learned for mastering Hooks in React… | ||
| The Fourier Piggies and Machine Learning | Pablo Casas | 31m |
Introduces the Fourier transform and how it connects time and frequency domains, explaining behind-the-scenes roles in audio equalizers, video processing, and… | ||
| Everything You Tweet Can Be Used Against You | Javier Smaldone | 32m |
Explains how Argentine security forces use OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) techniques and social-media monitoring («ciberpatrullaje») to investigate people… | ||
| Software development practices for companies that want to make an impact | Yuval Pemper | 33m |
Argues that an online product must push small changes to production constantly and shows how: continuous deployment on Kanban plus a CI/CD pipeline, end-to-end… | ||
| Our Experience Migrating to Continuous Delivery and Agile Testing | Daniela Da Riz, Mariana Perez de Ambrogio | 27m |
Ualá engineers describe their migration to Continuous Delivery and Agile Testing, explaining challenges they faced and how they adopted tools like code… | ||
| Defensive Programming at cURL | Daniel Stenberg | 33m |
cURL claims deployment in 10 billion installations and remains C code with tightened limits on string growth and unified buffer handling to avoid integer… | ||
| PostgreSQL: Joining Heterogeneous Databases is a reality, not a Myth | Ibrar Ahmed | 39m |
Claim: PostgreSQL uses SQL‑MED and Foreign Data Wrappers to query and join MySQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, HDFS and local Postgres tables as if they were local… | ||
| Balancing fast-paced innovation and technical debt | Allan Leinwand | 19m |
Slack operates at scale — 150 million peak messages per minute, 130,000 paid customers, 9 PB of storage and over 2 trillion metrics — and the engineering… | ||
| Trust, but Verify: Maintaining Democracy Despite Informational Countermeasures | Allie Mellen | 35m |
Examines Russia’s use of cyberwarfare and information operations to influence elections worldwide and details how other countries have developed technical and… | ||
| Rocking Innovation | Sergio Mastrogiovanni | 30m |
The talk describes how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed industry fragilities and accelerated digital transformation, arguing that data science and tech careers… | ||
| Unix: History and Memoir | Brian Kernighan | 01h 47m |
Unix originates at Bell Labs about 50 years ago and starts as a three-week prototype on a PDP-7, moves to the PDP-11, and by 1975 Sixth Edition is ~9,000 lines… | ||
| What Is Software Design and How Can We Do It Well? | Hernán Wilkinson | 58m |
Defines what “design” means in software engineering and questions whether design is just UML diagrams or something broader. Covers where software design is… | ||
| Employee Engagement: how we’ve got it all wrong (and what we can do about it) | Juan Dellarroquelle | 26m |
Argues that company-wide engagement surveys fail because they treat employees like customers and obscure individual needs, illustrated by an overlong… | ||
| Employee Experience: the New Normal in HR | Alirio Silva | 26m |
How personalized employee experiences driven by technology and design can boost engagement and business outcomes. The talk covers using people-centered tech… | ||
| It's Going to Be So Nice to Build a Bridge | Micaela Herrera | 40m |
The talk explores how recruiters and technical people can better connect, using topics like data and privacy and comparing sourcing techniques to hacking… | ||
| I Married a Referral! | Victoria Charra | 31m |
Victoria Charra describes running employee referral programs for technical hiring at startups, examining myths and documented effects of referrals. She covers… | ||
| OKR and Performance Management, Separation or Coexistence | Matias Ponce | 26m |
The talk examines whether OKRs should replace traditional performance management or coexist with it, questioning if OKRs are a methodology, a tool, or a… | ||
| If There's No Analytics in the Data, There Should Be Nothing | Adrián Quilis | 40m |
Mercado Libre's Business Intelligence team explains how they built an analytical culture to make the company data-driven: they use data and embedded machine… | ||
| Rip the Data | Gaston Laterza, Sergio Garcia Mora | 38m |
Practical HR analytics playbook for choosing metrics that actually change business outcomes: align hiring and HR process KPIs to strategic objectives… | ||
| Secure Software & Domain Driven Design | Francisco Miglario | 40m |
Argues for treating security as an architectural concern and shows how Domain‑Driven Design (DDD) techniques produce concrete security improvements. Recommends… | ||
| Agility and Slow Talent | Ximena Pia Canosa | 34m |
The talk examines how learning enjoyment and the psychological concept of flow relate to organizational “learning agility” and people’s learning speed in VUCA… | ||
| 3 Principles for Building Global Diversity Programs | Lauren Jackman, Carolina Bel | 30m |
Small diversity team supports ~1,800 employees across 17 countries and shares three concrete practices: set locally meaningful goals (use local research —… | ||
| The DOM Wars: React vs d3 | Juan Cruz Fortunatti | 29m |
Compares two concrete integration patterns for combining React and d3: either let d3 manipulate the shared DOM (direct SVG manipulation with d3 transitions)… | ||
| PedidosYa: Behind the Delivery | German Scoglio | 29m |
PedidosYa explains how they scaled delivery tech by breaking a monolithic stack into modular front-end modules, building a self-service infrastructure console… | ||
| AI: your enemy or your ally | Liliana De Gregorio | 22m |
A case study of Prisma Medios de Pago’s intelligent automation program using RPA combined with machine learning and virtual assistants. It describes a Centre… | ||
| Data Science Challenges in the Mobile Games Industry | Cecilia García, Carlos Sarraute | 34m |
This talk describes how Wildlife Studios’ Data Science team uses billions of player-generated data points to solve business questions for mobile games, such as… | ||
| Rediscovering the User in Isolation | Claudio Leyer | 24m |
Flow scaled its platform to handle pandemic-driven usage by expanding CDN capacity and a hybrid backend (cloud plus on-premises data centers), accelerating… | ||
| Unlocking Data-Driven Apps with TensorFlow | Manuel Torres | 47m |
Shows how to build a street‑camera vehicle counter by running TensorFlow Lite inference on a Raspberry Pi with a USB camera, after training models in Google… | ||
| Living organisms can’t survive in their own waste products | Alan Kay | 02h 41m |
Argues that software is a growing pollution like the Pacific Gyre and blames short‑term tinkering for trillion‑ton scale waste, backing that with concrete… | ||
| How To Get On This Stage (And What To Do When You Get There) | Mark Smith | 33m |
Step-by-step method for getting accepted and actually delivering: five stages: submit, write, rehearse, perform, bask; write a 25‑minute outline of 5–10… | ||
| Curating Video Games in Quarantine: How to Organize Virtual Interactive Exhibits | María Luján Oulton | 30m |
Two pandemic-era projects for presenting playable games and artworks online: a fork of the open-source i-like-gallery (JavaScript, on GitHub) was adapted into… | ||
| Apollo 13: 50 Years Since the Great Space Odyssey | Diego Córdova | 35m |
A talk recounts the Apollo 13 accident of April 1970 and explains how mission control planned and executed the rescue of the three astronauts after an in-space… | ||
| Esports, Spectacle and What's Coming Next | Ivan Dario Niello | 36m |
Explains what electronic sports (esports) are, their origins, and how they evolved into mainstream entertainment. Describes professional video game leagues… | ||
| What We Mean When We Talk About Computational Astrophysics | Susana Pedrosa | 35m |
The talk explains numerical astrophysics as a method to study galaxy formation and evolution using large compute clusters, addressing initial conditions, the… | ||
| Artemis, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Future Developments | Pablo De León | 46m |
Covers NASA’s Artemis program planning a 2024 lunar south‑pole return using Artemis‑1 (uncrewed), Artemis‑2 (crewed test) and Artemis‑3 (descent), plus a… | ||
| Smart Phones, Apple & Magic: a Genesis story | Marc Porat | 01h 10m |
A tiny Silicon Valley team designs and ships a personal communicator in 1995 (years before the iPhone), builds its own interpreted language Telescript, and… | ||
| Exoplanets, Strange New Worlds | Rodrigo Díaz | 29m |
Overview of exoplanet discoveries and measurement methods: transit photometry and radial-velocity (RV) surveys have found thousands of planets since 1995 and… | ||
| According to a Study from the University of Narnia… | Guadalupe Nogués | 23m |
The talk explains how scientific knowledge is produced and how to read scientific findings with both openness and healthy skepticism. It discusses… | ||
| Give Me🔥 a Trip from Your Favorite Stove to the Gender Pay Gap through Machine Learning | Valeria Edelsztein | 37m |
A data-driven talk describing surveys about why people pick a favorite stovetop burner and the subsequent analysis that produced a machine learning model… | ||
| Aedes aegypti: Why All the Fuss About a Mosquito? | Raquel M. Gleiser | 33m |
This talk explains why Aedes aegypti is such a problematic mosquito by describing its role transmitting dengue, Zika and chikungunya and why population control… | ||
| Free and Open Source Software and Hardware for Your Career | Jon "maddog" Hall | 30m |
Argues that Free and Open Source Software and Hardware speed development, teach deeper skills, and keep money and jobs local: IBM shifts from 3–5% hardware… | ||
| Our Journey to the Cloud and the Use of Containers in Corporate Environments | David Bruno Cortarello | 41m |
A presentation about the team’s move from datacenters to cloud and how their cloud consumption evolved, comparing datacenter vs cloud models. It covers why… | ||
| How to Scale Your Services with Kafka | Leonel Badi | 27m |
Introduces Apache Kafka as a distributed streaming platform to scale communication between microservices. Covers Kafka fundamentals and common usage patterns… | ||
| Key Technologies for a New Project in the Digital Wave | Gabriel Arango | 30m |
A practical checklist for launching a greenfield digital product: target a first release in 3–6 months and iterate, design cloud-first using managed services… | ||
| UX without UI – How Research and Content Collaborate in Building Digital Products | Nathalia Viegas Conte, Sheila Schuster | 26m |
The talk explains how UX Research and UX Content teams collaborate when building digital products, showing how each discipline leverages its methods and… | ||
| Program Without Barriers | Andrea Durutty, Andrea Durruty | 25m |
Accenture presents the “Programa Sin Barreras” to promote inclusion of people with disabilities by making teams and workplaces fully accessible, inclusive and… | ||
| Production ML Models in the Mobile Gaming Industry | Jose Sanchez, Andrés Tobelem | 33m |
Wildlife Studios describes taking a reinforcement‑learning auction model from research to production in six weeks, serving real‑time ad bids at millions of… | ||
| PANEL GENERAL MAGIC | Matt Maude, Sarah Kerruish, Megan Smith, Rebeca Hwang, Tony Fadell, Marc Porat | 01h 14m |
Documentary presents newly assembled archival footage from 1992–93 and follows General Magic’s attempt to build a precursor smartphone with custom chips, touch… | ||
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