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Abstract Does your current employer prefer to hire experienced engineers rather than entry level because of the cost of training? Do the entry level engineers at your workplace thirst for more technical knowledge, and do the senior engineers express a desire to share what they have learned throughout their careers? At Certara, our engineers inspired us to design a simple but effective early career engineering development program. This program not only benefits the entry level folks, but it also enriches…

Abstract Until late last year, working on the Linux kernel required writing C. Thanks to the Rust-For-Linux project, that’s not true anymore. There are now several efforts to write kernel drivers in Rust. I’ll talk a bit about the effort to rewrite the Binder driver — one of the most security and performance critical components of Android. About Matt Gilbride Matt is a native Philadelphian working on Android at Google. Trust The Process. About the Conference The Philly Emerging Technologies…

About Dan Boykis Dan Boykis is a software consultant at Chariot Solutions. About the Conference The Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (ETE) is the Mid-Atlantic’s premier developer’s conference. Entering its 17th year, we’ve brought world-class speakers — including some local favorites — to speak about leading-edge technologies being used today, and emerging technologies that will be important for attendees to know about in the near future. Watch More Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from…

Abstract Did you know that you could order a pizza and send a text message with GitHub Actions? While Github Actions is the perfect tool for automating all aspects of your software workflows and deployment processes, you can also use actions to automate and streamline a variety of tasks. Whether you’re looking to compress images for the web, generate semantic release notes or check if your team member is awake – there’s an action for that! This talk explores how…

Abstract Any developer who is trying to build a platform for authentic human content is under threat from the capabilities enabled by ChatGPT, and other text generation services. Whether it’s education, applications, hiring, reviews, publishing, email, or social media, we are now dealing with actors who can distribute convincing, unique, and factually-unchecked content at scale. Alex Cui, CTO of GPTZero, will be discussing some of the first-hand challenges that our partners have faced, and the approach we are taking to…

Abstract Few researchers have access to the resources needed to train the state-of-the-art language models (LMs) used in cutting-edge technologies. Processing “big data” over computational frameworks and expensive GPUs, there are substantial environmental implications: in 2019, one team of researchers estimated that 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide were produced from the costs associated to producing one model’s parameters (GPT-2’s)—the lifetime emissions of approximately five cars. Its developers, OpenAI, reported in 2018 that “since 2012, the amount of compute used in…

Abstract From personalized websites to mobile apps to immersive video, omnichannel digital experiences are all about making our customer journeys consistent, simple, and engaging for our audience throughout across all channels. But building and rolling out content-rich digital experiences for many channels and at scale can be anything but simple! In this session, we’ll explore modern omnichannel experiences and the common challenges that product teams face when building and delivering them. We’ll discuss the latest industry trends, including headless architectures…

Abstract Is your app alone and trembling in a dark, single-region of a cloud platform, suffering with failures, latency, and retry storms closing in on every side? In this talk, you will learn how to modernize a single-region application, using a multiple-region or multi-cloud architecture. You’ll see why connecting geographically distributed applications to data sources in a different region is an anti-pattern. I’ll demonstrate how even destroying an entire region will prove the value of active-active level resilience. I will…

Abstract Suppose you want a new feature which requires a lower-level language to get the performance it needs. Or maybe your code is already low-level, but a new feature could be built much faster in a higher-level language without a noticeable performance hit. Or maybe you want to migrate incrementally from one language to another. Whatever the motivation, calling functions across languages while staying within the same process is commonly overlooked in favor of more familiar techniques like spinning up…

Abstract 37signals pioneered “Shape Up” a macro-level methodology focused on product/engineering collaboration, which was developed by their former Head of Strategy, Ryan Singer. Shape Up helped 37signals manage periods of extensive growth and a rewrite of their flagship product from scratch for its 2.0 release. In the Foreword to Singer’s book, “Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters,” 37signals CEO Jason Fried explains that Shape Up does not require “daily stand ups, design sprints, development sprints,…