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▶  Building Your First AWS Lambda Function in VS Code — A tight tutorial screencast that clocks in at under 10 minutes.

▶  Java's Quirks and Wrong (?) Defaults with Brian Goetz — An interesting chat with one of the leading figures in the Java world about what Java got ‘wrong’ but why it still works well that way.

▶  Working with WebSockets on AWS — A 30 minute screencast focusing on using API Gateway as a WebSocket endpoint to talk with a serverless Lambda function.

▶  The Pragmatic Programmer, 20 Years Later — Dave Thomas (of The Pragmatic Programmer and Pragmatic Bookshelf fame) reflects on the development of a new edition 20 years on from the original.

▶  What Comes After Open Source? — The creator of The Open Source Definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative reflects on what ‘open source’ has come to mean and why it might be time to move forward with a new paradigm.

▶  SaaS Deep Dive: Designing and Building Multi-Tenant Solutions — A practical and accessible talk on some approaches to setting up multi-tenancy in a typical SaaS app.

▶  A Chat with Brian Kernighan of Unix, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Fame — Lex Fridman, a well known AI researcher, spent well over an hour chatting with Brian Kernighan, the even better known computer scientist! Brian touches on the early days of Unix, what programming means to him, what he thinks about JavaScript, and a lot more. There’s a lot to enjoy here...

▶  Remote Development with Visual Studio Code — I’ve only recently started to play with VS Code’s remote editing and development features but have been very impressed. If it’s all new to you, this talk rounds up the general concepts.

▶  A Practical-ish Introduction to Data Science — This is pretty high level but extremely accessible and well worth the time if the terms ‘data science’ and ‘machine learning’ leave you scratching your head half the time.

▶  Making Music with Haskell From Scratch — This is one of those fun things to watch. A 49 minute livestream.

▶  Databases on Kubernetes: Why You Should Care — Now Kubernetes supports StatefulSets and CRDs, one of the next logical steps is to run databases on it..

▶  Does Agile Make Us Less Secure? — Weighing up the balance between older ways of making things ‘just so’ before deploying versus pushing to production numerous times a day.

▶  Mob Programming and the Power of Flow — I enjoyed this insightful walk through the idea of bringing people together and attempting to develop things in an efficient way with numerous people around the same machine (a.k.a. ‘mob’ programming). It’s not for everyone, but it’s neat to see how it can work.

▶  Performance Profiling for Web Applications — An overview of how to use Chrome DevTools to understand a Web application’s performance bottlenecks.

▶  Easy And Correct High Availability Postgres with Kubernetes — A 50 minute talk from PostgresOpen 2019 that goes all the way ‘from containers up’ until actually doing stuff with Postgres.

▶  Explore Your Microservices Architecture with Graph Theory and Network Science — Can we improve microservice architectures using graph theory? Apparently yes.

▶  On 'Good Enough' Architecture — A 40 minute talk on software architecture looking at situations where architecture was too elaborate or too simple and how we can learn to hit the ‘sweet spot’ for our own projects. As one commenter says: “One of the best talks I heard about the important balance between centralization and autonomy in the age of DevOps and microservices.”