Silicon Valley Code Camp 2018
2018-10-13..2018-10-14
San Jose, United States
as the organisers put it
Silicon Valley Code Camp are community events where developers learn from fellow developers. Both virtual and live sessions.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Silicon Valley Code Camp 2018 Hosted by PayPal | 03m | |
This is a short remembrance of some highlights from our 13th Silicon Valley Code Camp that happened October 13-14, 2018 at PayPal Town Hall in San Jose… | ||
| Productive React/TypeScript/TDD: Love Story from Hell | Paul Everitt | 01h 03m |
Walks through a working React+TypeScript project scaffolded with create-react-app (typescript fork), run inside WebStorm, using Jest + Enzyme for TDD, showing… | ||
| Cracking the Coding Interview | Gayle Laakmann McDowell | 01h 03m |
Explains a concrete interview flow: listen, draw an example, brute-force, optimize and never start coding until interviewer signs off. Teaches specific… | ||
| Web Panel | Douglas Crockford, Steve Souders, Mike North | 58m |
Panel gives concrete takeaways: the web’s user wait is still ~80% front end, the current bottleneck is CPU mostly from JavaScript, and real pages commonly load… | ||
| How JavaScript Works | Douglas Crockford | 01h 08m |
Announces a new book and shows a manuscript tool written in JavaScript that transpiles to HTML/PDF but delays printing; claims JavaScript is the bridge to… | ||
| Istio on Kubernetes: Smart Canaries, Dark Launches and Chaos | Burr Sutter | 01h 06m |
Deploys Envoy sidecars via Istio CRDs (Pilot, Mixer, Citadel) to intercept pod traffic and add mTLS, Prometheus metrics and Jaeger tracing; uses Envoy sidecar… | ||
| Event Driven Architecture – Enabling Microservices | Brad Irby | 01h 08m |
Explains a concrete migration path: add an append-only event store (Kinesis / Azure Event Hub / Kafka) and initially write to an event store first alongside… | ||
| OAuth 2.0 and OIDC | Sara Daqiq | 28m |
Explains that OAuth 2.0 is an HTTP-based authorization framework while OpenID Connect adds an identity layer that returns an ID token (JWT) containing user… | ||
| Develop Galaxy Apps for Samsung Wearables | Josue Bustos, Tony Morelan | 01h 02m |
Shows how to build a standalone Galaxy Watch app using existing web skills (HTML/CSS/JS) with Tizen Studio (Eclipse-based), create certificates, package as a… | ||
| MongoDB First Steps | Nuri Halperin | 01h 08m |
Live demo shows how to start a MongoDB server (mongod.exe) on port 27017, connect with the JavaScript shell, create a database and collection, and insert… | ||
| Understanding Functions and "this" in the World of ES2018 | Bryan Hughes | 57m |
Explains that JavaScript sets this by how a function is called — call-site determines this — so plain function calls get global/window, object.method calls get… | ||
| Microservices: Decomposing Applications for Testability and Deployability | Chris Richardson | 01h 03m |
Microservice architecture decomposes a large monolith into independently deployable services with private databases, enabling automated pipelines that cut lead… | ||
| Talks about 'Interview Like Google (or not)-But Better!' | Gayle Laakmann McDowell | 01h 16m |
Focus on getting usable signal not whether a problem is finished: probe why mistakes happen, adjust for lost time, and note communication or nervousness as… | ||
| Introduction to Understanding Deep Learning | Antony Ross | 54m |
Quick walkthrough of what deep learning actually does: contrasts linear regression and classification with neural nets, shows perceptron → multilayer MLPs… | ||
| CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast | David Spark, Mike Johnson, Ahsan Mir, Geoff Belknap | 58m |
Live podcast records a practical, unscripted conversation that drops concrete takeaways: start with password manager and two-factor authentication as a… | ||
| Cracking the Product Manager Interview | Gayle Laakmann McDowell | 01h 00m |
Practical playbook for PM interviews: prepare five labeled stories across roles, state the nugget first, use SAR with at least three action bullets and say “I”… | ||
| 400 Billion Messages a Day with Kafka | MAULIN VASAVADA, Kevin Lu, Na Yang | 39m |
PayPal runs 400 billion messages a day across 50+ Kafka clusters, ~3,000 topics and 7 PB of disk, upgrading from 0.8 to 1.1 while supporting Java, Python and… | ||
| Introduction to Chatbots | Upkar Lidder | 54m |
Covers the concrete workflow for building a chatbot: defining intents and entities, collecting slot values, using confidence thresholds, and testing with the… | ||
| Human Learning: How We Learn & Why it Matters | Ted Young | 01h 06m |
Covers evidence-backed tactics: cognitive load theory and working memory 3–4 items (not 7±2), the forgetting curve and the testing effect, plus spaced… | ||
| Intro to Blazor, WebAssembly and Razor in .Net | Corey Weathers | 58m |
Blazor builds browser apps with C# and Razor that compile to DLLs and run on WebAssembly (demo downloads ~1.9 MB of mono + assemblies). Requires Visual Studio… | ||
| Augmented Reality For The Masses | Siamak Ashrafi | 01h 16m |
Overview of concrete claims and how-to: mobile AR runs on iOS ARKit, Android ARCore and via Unity/Unreal; core technique is SLAM and IMU dead reckoning to… | ||
| The Location of Things from A to (X,Y,Z) | Jayson DeLancey | 52m |
Covers concrete tools and demos: using GeoJSON uploaded to an XYZ geospatial database (premium tier with ~10 spaces) and visualized with Tangram + Leaflet… | ||
| TensorFlow in your Browser | Oswald Campesato | 01h 04m |
Shows real training inside the browser using TensorFlow.js (formerly deeplearn.js) with WebGL doing the heavy lifting, including a demo CNN on MNIST that… | ||
| Powering an API with GraphQL, Golang, and NoSQL | Nic Raboy | 36m |
Walks through a working GraphQL API implemented in Go backed by Couchbase NoSQL, demonstrating schema objects, resolver functions, queries and mutations, and… | ||
| Advancing your Career through technical leadership skills | Claudia Galvan | 49m |
Career advancement requires an intentional plan: evidence includes leading development of global internationalization libraries at Adobe, managing a $1.2M… | ||
| Interfacing Lua and Ruby with C | Vijo Cherian | 35m |
Claims that a professional C/C++ programmer can embed and script with Lua after these basics, noting Lua is ~60,000 lines and LuaJIT exists for speed. Explains… | ||
| Accelerating Android Development with Google Jetpack | Siamak Ashrafi | 01h 13m |
Google Jetpack is presented as a full-stack way to speed Android development by replacing activity-heavy code with ViewModel survives configuration changes… | ||
| Exploring Google APIs with Python & JavaScript | Wesley J. Chun | 01h 16m |
Shows concrete code and working demos using Python and JavaScript client libraries, not slides-only theory: list first 100 Drive files (prints name and… | ||
| Ask the Expert: Q&A with Engineering Managers | Ron Lichty, Mickey W. Mantle, Tammy Baker | 01h 07m |
Panelists argue that engineering managers usually stop regular coding and should focus on leverage and people work, noting a survey of 39 attendees where most… | ||
| 10 steps to build a strong Token based API Security | Senthilkumar Gopal | 43m |
Live demo shows an OAuth flow registering a client with eBay, exchanging an authorization code for a short-lived access token and a refresh token, and using… | ||
| Regular Expressions, To Match Or Not, That is the Question | Peter Thoeny | 57m |
Covers how to read and build real patterns with examples such as a word boundary anchored email validation that enforces a dot and 2–6 letter TLD, a… | ||
| Dissecting Dynamo: Highly available key value store | Aswani Nerella | 27m |
Aswani Nerella Talks about 'Dissecting Dynamo: Highly available key value store' at https://SiliconValley-CodeCamp.com in San Jose Hosted by… | ||
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