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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Ceci n’est pas un canard – Machine Learning and Generative Adversarial Networks
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Matt Hamilton introduces the concept of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) —a machine learning model that creates new data instances resembling your training data. As we learn what GANs are and how they work, Matt will show us how GANs can be used for both fun and serious tasks.
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Essential Techniques for Leading Software Teams in the Work From Home Era
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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. Join Robin Bate Boerop to learn the new essential...
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Accessibility in Flutter
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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! In this talk, Lara Martin and Miguel Beltran will show you how to prepare your Flutter app for a larger audience.
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Rewriting Legacy Code
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Have you ever had to maintain a 15-year-old application? Dead code, hard dependencies, null pointer exceptions, who knows what else...
In this talk, Anna Filina will show you how to modernise your application using a variety of strategies to overcome the challenges of dealing with legacy.
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Building a Cloud Native Application with Quarkus
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In this "tools-in-action" talk, Loic Mathieu will demonstrate Quarkus, a Java framework that enables developers to create cloud-ready microservice applications.
cloud cloud-native-applications java quarkus
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Applied Domain-Driven Design — Full-Stack Event Sourcing
Featuring Roman Sachse
In this SkillsCast Roman Sachse shares a functional approach to DDD that allows you to actually reuse your carefully crafted domain types and behaviour with ease by leveraging F# and the SAFE-Stack to combine CQRS/Event-Sourcing on the backend and the Elm architecture on the frontend.
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Intro to OCaml
Featuring Richard Bonichon
OCaml is a modern pragmatic functional programming language of the ML family, that also supports imperative or object-oriented paradigms.
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Let’s Play with Cloud Code to Run Cloud Native Applications
Featuring Julien Landuré
Are you creating or playing with Docker images everyday? You’re pushing them on K8S? Let’s discover a DevOps tool to improve your Developer eXperience: “Cloud Code”.
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The Secrets of the GHC Garbage Collector
Featuring Cheng Shao
Garbage collectors are an important component in today's language runtimes which liberate developers from the need to track allocations of small objects.
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Digital Discrimination: Cognitive Bias in Machine Learning
Featuring Maureen McElaney
With increasing regularity we see stories in the news about machine learning algorithms causing real-world harm. People’s lives and livelihood are affected by the decisions made by machines. Learn about how bias can take root in machine learning algorithms and ways to overcome it.
data cognitive-bias ai machine-learning
