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Teaching agents to pay: what devs need to knowAndroidMakers by droidcon 20262026-04-09
Claim: agent-driven purchases convert about four times better (≈3.1% → ≈12%), enabled by Stripe integration using Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) and Shared…
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Building Low-Code Applications with Serverless WorkflowsGOTO Amsterdam 20232023-06-13
AWS Step Functions used to replace Lambda glue: choose Standard vs Express (1 year vs 5 minute durations, exactly-once vs at-least-once), and optimize cost — a…
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New NewsDLD Munich 232023-01-12
Semafor launches a global news product that separates facts from analysis and bundles original reporting with curated alternative perspectives and external…
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Never Waste a Crisis: Identifying and Transforming Digital Risk into RewardRSAC 20222022-06-06
Presenter: Ben Smith, Field CTO, RSA You’ve heard it before: the pandemic changed nearly every aspect of how we live, work and play, exposing businesses and…
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Best practices for building interactive applications with LambdaAWS Summit San Francisco 20222022-04-20
Practical guidance for building interactive backends: use AWS Lambda with API Gateway or the new Lambda function URLs (HTTPS, SigV4 IAM or custom auth, CORS…
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How to Ruin your SOC in 5 Easy StepsRSAC 20212021-05-17
Five actionable failure modes: rely only on SIEM logs instead of logs + network + endpoint visibility (use XDR); keep incident procedures in outdated binders…
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Modelling complex business domains with eventsAlchemy Conf 20212021-05-14
Claims that complex domains become manageable by modelling everything as immutable domain events and building an event-sourced Elixir app around them. Uses…
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The New LAMP Stack Is ServerlessForum PHP 20202020-10-22
Shows how to replace a LAMP VM stack with Lambda + API Gateway + Aurora + RDS Proxy, demonstrating that PHP (including Laravel/Symfony) runs on Lambda via a…
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Applied WebAssembly: Compiling and Running C++ in Your Web BrowserCppCon 20192019-09-15
Ported Clang and LLD to WebAssembly so a full C++ compile+link pipeline runs client-side in the browser, using a WASI-like capability layer, an in-memory…
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An event-driven approach to building Elixir applicationsCode Elixir LDN 20192019-07-18
A demo application called Segment Challenge records Strava webhooks, fetches activity data with Phoenix/Ecto, and originally updated leaderboards in Postgres…
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WebAssembly and Node.jsNodeConf EU 20172017-11-05
Node 8 runs WebAssembly and the demo compiles a C compression library to wasm with emscripten then loads it in Node, exposing a decoder via a small JS shim…
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WebAssembly: birth of a virtual ISAFull Stack Fest 20162016-09-05
Claims WebAssembly is a portable, size‑ and load‑time‑efficient compilation target for C++, rust and similar languages that runs inside the browser and shares…
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How I Architected My Big Rails App For SuccessRubyConf AU 20142014-02-19
Claims an eight‑month Rails rebuild succeeds by breaking the app into in‑repo rails engines with namespaced tables and migrations kept inside each engine (via…
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How I architected my big Rails app for success!Rocky Mountain Ruby 20132013-09-25
Claims a single Rails app split into web and domain engines with four engines plus one gem handling SMS, uses namespaced tables and keeps migrations inside…
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Hacking With GemsRubyConf AU 20132013-02-20
Demonstrates four malicious gems that actually harvest plaintext passwords from Rails requests, expose a live DB console, exfiltrate source code (attempted but…
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Hacking with GemsAloha RubyConf 20122012-10-08
Shows concrete malicious gems: awesome Rails flash messages exfiltrates cleartext emails and passwords to a web service and writes them into public…
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