Philly ETE 2023
2023-04-11..2023-04-12
Philadelphia, United States
[Philly ETE 2015, Philly ETE 2016, Philly ETE 2023]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Choreorobotics: Teaching Robots How To Dance | Catie Cuan | 39m |
Argues that movement makes robots legible and emotionally engaging, and demonstrates a deployed system: six Everyday Robots mobile manipulators running a… | ||
| Reducing The Carbon Footprint Of Your Software Systems | Tammy McClellan | 59m |
Uses the Green Software Foundation’s Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) spec and the formula E×I + M per R to produce concrete numbers: a Raspberry Pi measured at… | ||
| WebXR For Cooperative Work, Thought, And Play | John Shaughnessy | 45m |
WebXR is a browser API that exposes headset position, orientation, and controllers while using WebGL or the new WebGPU for rendering; Chrome just shipped… | ||
| Your Distributed System is Talking to You: OpenTelemetry | Jessica Kerr | 57m |
Modern observability uses distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry to turn requests into correlated spans and full traces; a demo app with about 10 services in 8… | ||
| dbt: A Software Engineering Approach To The Analytics Workflow | Kshitij Aranke, Brandon Segal | 49m |
dbt is an open‑source SQL-first transformation framework that adds git-based version control, CI/CD, declarative tests (YAML) and lineage to cloud warehouses… | ||
| Starbeam: Universal Reactivity And What It Means For You | Yehuda Katz | 01h 02m |
Starbeam is a reactivity library extracted from Ember that builds cells, resources, services and element modifiers as universal reactive primitives and ships… | ||
| Leading With The Platform: A Platform Engineering Approach To Tech Debt | Jess mink | 29m |
Platform team converts on‑call symptoms into proposals: trace shows slow deletes, a library upgrade reduces DB CPU and forecasts a 10x capacity gain; project… | ||
| How To Steal From Maintainers | Richard Schneeman | 55m |
Actionable tactics: porting the Ruby buildpack to cloud native buildpacks to produce a Docker image locally; running CodeTriage (70,000 developers signed up)… | ||
| Demystifying Digital Twins: The Digital Twin Consortium’s Capabilities Periodic Table | Dan Isaacs | 34m |
A practical framework maps specific capabilities to use cases so teams pick exact requirements not vague buzzwords: the Capabilities Periodic Table lists 62… | ||
| Hacking The Pachyderm: Scaling Servers And People | Hazel Weakly | 42m |
Hachyderm scales from ~700 to 30,000 users in weeks and migrates a live distributed Mastodon deployment across the Atlantic with lift-and-shift migration to… | ||
| A Survey Of JavaScript Meta-Frameworks | Ken Rimple | 57m |
Practical comparison of five meta-frameworks with concrete trade-offs: Next.js 13 app router and its server components support server-side rendering… | ||
| Whither Programming Languages: Where Did They Go And Where Are They Going? | Jamie Allen | 38m |
Argument: language innovation is slowing because cloud platforms and large vendors prioritize a small set of supported runtimes, so enterprises pick what the… | ||
| Making Hoagies With Node, MongoDB, And Golang | Pi Mohan | 36m |
Wawa refactors its in‑store kiosks into an Electron app with Electron + Next.js + Node.js front end, Golang ACLs and APIs that consume Kafka events, and Golang… | ||
| REPLs All The Way Up: A Rubric For Virtuous Feedback Loops | Avdi Grimm, Jessica Kerr | 55m |
Argues that the REPL is a practical archetype for better feedback loops and gives a concrete rubric—Read–Eval–Print–Loop—to evaluate them. Demonstrates tools… | ||
| Your Browser is Pooped: Using Web Workers To Create A Browser-Based Barcode Scanner | Drew DeCarme | 41m |
Demonstrates a 100% browser barcode scanner built with React/Vite/TypeScript that moves per-frame image work off the UI thread into web workers, using… | ||
| An Open Book Test: Securing Open Source Software With OpenSSF’s Scorecard | Stephen Augustus | 27m |
OpenSSF Scorecard runs concrete automated checks — 20+ checks — against repositories via a GitHub Action, CLI and REST API, flagging checked-in binaries… | ||
| Navigating A World Where AI-Generated Misinformation Can Be Created At Scale | Alex Cui | 29m |
Claims a practical detector and dashboard called GPTZero API that returns sentence‑level and document‑level probabilities and an overall “document generated”… | ||
| Building And Deploying Omni-Channel Digital Experiences At Scale | Russ Danner | 50m |
Claims that omnichannel scales when content is stored as a headless Git-based CMS and served through GraphQL are backed by concrete tooling and processes… | ||
| Tips For Detecting The Use Of AI-Generated Text | Jake Ryland Williams | 45m |
Demonstrates that shallow neural networks trained with a single pass and no gradient descent can produce workable language models that train on CPUs for far… | ||
| Achieving Resiliency With A Multi-Cloud Or Multi-Region Approach | DaShaun Carter | 51m |
A single-region Spring Boot app is rebuilt as a active-active system: identical services run in North Europe and South Central US on Azure Spring Apps, Azure… | ||
| Shaping Up Your Development Process With Shape Up | Martin Snyder | 56m |
Pinnacle21 adopts Shape Up with six-week builds plus two-week cooldowns, enforcing a strict appetite (time) limit and 25% elective cooldown time so technical… | ||
| Calling Functions Across Languages | Richard Feldman | 48m |
Shows how to replace network or process RPC with direct in-process calls using C FFIs so Node.js can call Ruby (and Python, Fortran, etc.), converting JS/Ruby… | ||
| Getting Creative with HPA Scaling in Kubernetes | Drew Rogers | 08m |
Demo compares VM ASG that takes ~6 minutes to bring capacity vs Kubernetes pods that scale in seconds and shows HPA replaced by external/custom metrics via… | ||
| The Art of Problem-Solving: Strategies for Finding Your Way in the Dark | Gary Sieling | 07m |
Early-stage product work focuses on turning vague goals into measurable experiments: use end-to-end prototypes that deploy to users with minimal features to… | ||
| A Simple Talent Development Program for Software Departments | Sue Gerace | 06m |
A simple, repeatable early-career program that runs lunch sessions and produces actual PRs: three formats — Round Table (one hour split between show‑and‑tell… | ||
| Technologies That Last | Dan Boykis | 07m |
Argues that applying the Lindy effect to software gives a practical rule: future lifetime ≈ half existing lifetime, so SQL ~40 years → ~20 more and message… | ||
| Linux is Getting Rusty (And So Is Android) | Matt Gilbride | 08m |
Linux kernel drivers start appearing in Rust for Linux codepaths as an actual option; a current effort rewrites the Android Binder driver (~6,000 lines) in… | ||
| There’s an Action for That! Exploring the Possibilities of GitHub Actions | Kedasha Kerr | 42m |
Overview of concrete outcomes and tools: a lint CI pipeline runs on GitHub-hosted Ubuntu using Super-Linter, a CD workflow deploys static sites to GitHub… | ||
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