Ep 6 – 8 Nov 2016 – ..tell me over and over and over again..
..you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction….
Location: Byron Burger, 114 High Holborn, WC1V 6JQ
Order: 1 x Bun Free, Classic Chicken + Sweet Potato fries + Oreo Shake, 1 x Chilli Burger + Sweet Potato fries + Gamma Ray
Review: 4/5
Comment: You Know what you’re getting at Byron. Good service. Good food. We got good seats having arrived before the rush. 1 point deducted for about 10mins of drilling part way through food. Otherwise, gotta love a Byron Burger!
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News and Links
- General:
- Metering and chargeback at Twitter, for scale and efficiency: https://www.linux.com/blog/twitters-chargeback-system-measures-resource-use-and-sends-out-bill
- Netflix don’t do agile: https://t.co/zlroiTMTsT
- CRISPR Hacking genetic codes: https://t.co/6OueazaqsR
- James Dyson puts £15m into tech ed: https://t.co/zgVbAgGony
- Govt new cyber security initiative: https://t.co/htiljDJctX
- …and Govt Self harm playbook: https://medium.com/@sheldonline/the-government-it-self-harm-playbook-6537d3920f65#.u0hi2opyl
- New TWerk’s Radar is out! – https://assets.thoughtworks.com/assets/technology-radar-nov-2016-en.pdf
- Crossing the chasm book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crossing-Chasm-Marketing-Technology-Mainstream/dp/1841120634
- New Mac’s out to mixed reception, but FAA rules help explain some of the restrictions:
- IBM states Mac’s have lower opex: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3131906/apple-mac/ibm-says-macs-are-even-cheaper-to-run-than-it-thought.html
- Download RAM: https://t.co/01RIIKP262
- Scala/FP related:
- Scala 2.12 OUT!!!:
- https://www.lightbend.com/blog/scala-2-12-released
- https://t.co/mftDzZory2
- https://t.co/7Nsca9IWSv
- Main changes around Java 8 feature compat, perf improvements, built with sbt, Right based Either..
- Sbt 0.13.13 – New command and templates:
- Miles Sabin on the Typelevel Scala rebooted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H7FsMCuMMk
- Scala 2.12 OUT!!!:
- Blockchain:
- Trend toward zero knowledge proofs: https://t.co/S3iEkzGc0K
- ZCash is launched: https://t.co/mXTRLH8DRF
- Blockchain basics explained:
- Microsoft productises Ethereum: https://t.co/JlhWwaL23i
- Docker/Ops:
- Kubernetes out on Azure container service: https://t.co/lS85Xb7IJs
- Moving Windows VMs to Containers using image2docker: https://blog.docker.com/2016/10/containerize-windows-workloads-image2docker/
- First chapters of Measuring continuous delivery are out by Steve Smith: https://t.co/kOLX1u5YF0
- Docker in production, a history of failure: https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/
- And finally…
- OK Google Potter commands: https://t.co/xSIqTpQlLK
- Propel SW: https://youtu.be/CI4MXslYJWc
- US Presidential results: https://twitter.com/BBCUSElection
Events
- MuCon – Nov 7th and 8th – London
- LSUG – Typeclasses and Shapeless with Dave Gurnell – Nov 8th – London
- ScalaWave – 25th and 26th Nov – Gdansk, Poland
- ChainConf – 5th and 6th Dec – London
- Scala Exchange – 8th and 9th Dec – London
- LambdaDays – 9th and 10th Feb 2017 – Krakow, Poland
- ScalaSphere – 2nd and 3rd March 2017 – Krakow, Poland
- Scala Matsuri – tickets released – 25th and 26th Feb 2017 – Japan
That’s a wrap!