Programming Language

Presenters Prasanna Dangalla Source apidays Australia 2025 APIs: The Secret Sauce for a Smarter, More Engaged Government 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts and civic-minded folks! Today, we’re diving deep into a topic that’s quietly revolutionizing how we interact with our governments: Government APIs. Forget clunky websites and endless paperwork; APIs are the unsung heroes making public services more accessible, transparent, and efficient than ever before. Prasanna, a Senior Software Engineer at Leica Solutions, recently shared some incredible insights into this transformation, and we’re here to break it down for you in a way that’s easy to digest and, dare we say, exciting! ✨ ...

Presenters Jonathan Catrell Source Developer Tea podcast 🤯 Developer Burnout: It’s More Than Just Working Less 🤯 Let’s face it, being a developer is demanding. We’re constantly learning, problem-solving, and adapting to new technologies. But what happens when that constant pressure starts to take its toll? We start to talk about burnout. But often, the advice we hear – “just work less!” – feels simplistic and doesn’t quite address the root of the problem. ...

Presenters Jenish Shah Source InfoQ podcast Level Up Your Microservices: Building a Universal Exception Library 🚀💡👨‍💻 Managing a fleet of microservices can quickly become a tangled web of duplicated code, inconsistent practices, and a whole lot of frustration. That’s precisely what one Netflix engineer experienced – and their solution is a brilliant example of how to build infrastructure that directly improves the developer experience. This post dives deep into the creation of a universal exception library, a powerful tool for streamlining error handling and boosting overall system resilience. ...

Presenters Evan Czaplicki Kris Jenkins Source GOTO podcast Level Up Your Language Design: Lessons from Rails, Rust, and the “Wife Principle” 🚀💡👨‍💻 Ever wondered what it takes to build a language or library that developers actually want to use? It’s not just about clever algorithms and cool syntax; it’s a complex dance between ease of use, long-term maintainability, and even the realities of human nature. This conference presentation segment, delivered by Evan Chublitzky, dives deep into these challenges, offering invaluable insights for anyone involved in language design or open-source development. ...

Presenters Wes Castro Source Scale Product 2025 💧 Invisible Watermarking: How Meta is Protecting Creators at Scale 🚀 The internet is a vibrant ecosystem of content creators, and the ease of sharing and reposting videos has fueled incredible creativity. But it’s also created a challenge: how do we ensure creators get the credit they deserve when their work is shared and reused across the web? Meta is tackling this problem head-on with a fascinating solution: invisible watermarking (IW). Let’s dive into how they’re doing it, the hurdles they faced, and what the future holds! ...