Thursday's Matter
Topics covered:Join us for a weekly online meetup organised by Skills Matter.
What is Thursday's Matter?
Thursday's Matter is a virtual meetup on the topics that truly matter to today's developers.
Join us every Thursday at 16:00 UTC when we'll be joined by an expert from around the globe. Each week we'll explore topics such as functional languages, mobile development, agile methodologies and machine learning.
THE FORMAT A 40-minute expert talk followed by a Q&A session.
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Lean Code: How to Code Efficiently
Organised by Thursday's Matter
Are you struggling with technical debt? Are you actively working to reduce your impact on future technical debt? Join Joan as he uses Express.js to show the benefits of Lean Code while drawing lessons from his work developing Drepakin a healthcare app for sickle cell anemia patients.
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Strategic Domain-Driven Design Tools For Non‑DDD People
Organised by Thursday's Matter
Domain-Driven Design has a reputation for being hard to grasp for newcomers. In this session Nick Tune will introduce several open-source tools that even people with no prior DDD experience can utilise to create a loosely-coupled architecture.
architecture domain-driven-design strategic-ddd ddd
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Implementing Microservices: Nobody Told Me About That
Featuring Khaled Souf
I'm sure you've heard about microservices. Did you suffer when implementing microservice architecture? Did you fail (like I did) implementing them?
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Build High Performance Stream Processing and Workflows with TPL Dataflow
Featuring Riccardo Terrell
TPL Dataflow is a data processing library from Microsoft that consists of different "blocks" that can be composed together to make a pipeline, which can be parallelized. Writing a highly performant application is not trivial, but with the proper tools it can be significantly simplified....
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Arthas: Inside Alibaba’s Java Diagnostic Tool
Featuring Loïc Mathieu
Alibaba — the Chinese colossus of e-commerce — recently open-sourced Arthas, a diagnostic tool for the JVM, which they use in production for find and solves issues.
In this live tools-in-action talk come and discover how Arthas works as we diagnose the behavior of a Java application.
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Web Performance & Agility: A Curious Mashup
Featuring Jérôme Bourgeon
Utilising lessons learned over 6 years working with web performance and crisis management, Jérôme Bourgeon explores the complexities of Web Performance, and illustrates us how managing Web Performance may lead to overall Agility inside an entire company.
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Post Quantum Cryptography Apocalypse
Featuring James Birnie
Quantum computers are real and are starting to be used for some interesting applications. As well as many applications in finance, organic chemistry and complex dynamical systems there is an ugly elephant in the room. That elephant is Shor's algorithm.
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Accessibility in Flutter
Featuring Miguel Beltran and Lara Martín
Reaching a larger audience with your apps is not just about targeting as many platforms as possible (mobile, web, desktop) but also about making them accessible for everyone. Native platforms already provide accessibility mechanisms, and thankfully, Flutter does too!
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Essential Techniques for Leading Software Teams in the Work From Home Era
Featuring Robin Bate Boerop
Is your software team headed the wrong way? Is it inefficient? Changing that will require leadership. You don't need to be the boss to lead, but you do need to know how. Leadership best practices have changed in the work-from-home era. This talk gives the new essential techniques.
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Ceci n’est pas un canard - Machine Learning and Generative Adversarial Networks
Featuring Matthew Hamilton
In this talk Matt will guide you through a specific type of A.I. He will introduce the concept of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and how they can be used for both fun and serious tasks. You will learn what a GAN is, and how they work.
data artificial-inteligence generative-adversarial-network machine-learning
