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Recent Technology Events and Conferences

Recent Technology Events and Conferences

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SPLASH 2024 (October 20-25, 2024, Pasadena, California, USA)

  • Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity
  • Premier conference at the intersection of programming languages and software engineering
  • Selected talks:
    • Mon, Oct 21:
      • "Statically and Dynamically Delayed Sampling for Typed Probabilistic Programming Languages" (13:00)
      • "Trellis: A Domain-Specific Language for Hidden Markov Models with Sparse Transitions" (17:00)
      • "Bugfox: A Trace-based Analyzer for Localizing the Cause of Software Regression in JavaScript" (18:00)
    • Tue, Oct 22:
      • "The Act of Programming in Collaborative Spaces" (Keynote, 12:00)
      • "Large Language Models for Executable Tax Code Generation" (14:20)
      • "Static-Dynamic Information Flow Control in Rust" (17:00)
    • Wed, Oct 23:
      • "Interview with Alan Kay" (Live Q&A, 13:40)
      • "Enhancing Static Analysis for Practical Bug Detection: An LLM-Integrated Approach" (19:00)
      • "Discovering Your Software Umwelt" (20:00)
    • Thu, Oct 24:
      • "AI: Winter of Our Discontent" (Keynote by Richard P. Gabriel, 12:00)
      • "Wasm-R3: Record-Reduce-Replay for Realistic and Standalone WebAssembly Benchmarks" (14:40)
      • "When Your Infrastructure is a Buggy Program" (15:00)
      • "A New Cognitive Perspective on Simplicity in System and Product Design" (14:30)
      • Multiple talks on Machine Learning and Programming Languages (16:40-18:20)
    • Fri, Oct 25:
      • SIGPLAN Milner Award Talk by Armando Solar-Lezama (15:20)
      • "Forge: A Tool and Language for Teaching Formal Methods" (19:00)
      • "PyDex: Repairing Bugs in Introductory Python Assignments using LLMs" (20:00)
      • "The Linguistics of Programming" (19:00)

P99 CONF 2024 (October 23-24, 2024, Virtual)

  • Conference focused on performance engineering and optimization
  • Notable talks:
    • Wed, Oct 23:
      • "Patterns of Low Latency" by Pekka Enberg (11:30)
      • "Why Databases Cache, but Caches Go to Disk" by Felipe Mendes & Alan Kasindorf (12:00)
      • "Writing a Kernel in Rust: Code Quality and Performance" by Luc Lenôtre (12:35)
      • "Rust + iouring + ktls: How Fast Can We Make HTTP?" by Amos Wenger (1:00)
      • "1BRC – Nerd Sniping the Java Community" by Gunnar Morling (1:50)
      • "Database Drivers: Performance Perspectives" by Piotr Sarna (2:40)
    • Thu, Oct 24:
      • "DTrace at 21: Reflections on Fully-grown Software" by Bryan Cantrill (12:00)
      • "Measuring and Diagnosing Performance Shouldn't Require Magic" by Cary Millsap (12:35)
      • "You're Doing It All Wrong" by Michael Stonebraker (1:25)
      • "Understanding Request Latency with Wallclock Profiling" by Richard Startin (1:25)
      • "Just In Time LSM Compaction" by Aleksei Kladov (2:20)
      • "Enhancing P99 Latency: Strategies for Doubling/Tripling Performance in Third-Party APIs" by Cristian Velazquez (3:10)
  • Key themes:
    • Low-latency system design
    • Performance optimization in databases
    • Rust for systems programming
    • Profiling and observability
    • Distributed systems performance

Clojure/conj 2024 (October 23-25, 2024, Durham, NC)

  • Primary annual Clojure conference
  • Excellent for networking with Clojure community
  • Hands-on workshops and in-depth technical talks
  • Highlighted talks for Thursday, October 24:
    • Morning:
      • "Transactor Performance: Theory & Practice" by Joe Lane (9:00 AM)
      • "Deploying ML models in a Clojure environment" by Caique Lima (10:00 AM)
      • "Breaking the bank with test.contract" by Allen Rohner (10:50 AM)
    • Afternoon:
      • "Portal - Exploring new Workflows with Visual Tools" by Chris Badahdah (2:10 PM)
      • "RDF and the future of LLMs" by Luke VanderHart (2:10 PM)
      • "Transducing Healthcare: Clojure Transducers as Clinical Features" (3:30 PM)
      • "Clojure in live sports television" by Christoph Neumann (4:20 PM)
    • Evening: Board Game Night (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM)

GitHub Universe 2024 (October 29-30, 2024, San Francisco, CA)

  • Annual GitHub conference focusing on software development and open source
  • Cost: $1000-$1500 (in-person), Free (virtual with registration)
  • Topics: Software development, DevOps, open source

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 (November 12-15, 2024)

  • Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Topics: Cloud native technologies, Kubernetes, observability, platform engineering
  • Key Tracks:
    • Observability Day
    • Platform Engineering Day
    • Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day
  • Notable Sponsors/Ecosystem:
    • Observability: Datadog, New Relic, Grafana Labs, Splunk
    • Security: Snyk, Wiz, CyberArk, SentinelOne
    • Platforms: Solo.io, HashiCorp, Red Hat
  • Format: In-person with recordings available
  • All sessions will be recorded and available on CNCF YouTube channel within two weeks post-event
  • Co-located Events:
    • AppDeveloperCon
    • ArgoCon
    • BackstageCon
    • Cilium + eBPF Day
    • Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day
    • Cloud Native StartupFest
    • Data on Kubernetes Day
    • EnvoyCon
    • Istio Day
    • Observability Day
    • Platform Engineering Day
    • WasmCon

EmacsConf 2024 (December 7-8, 2024, Online)

  • Annual conference for Emacs users and developers
  • Cost: Free (typically)
  • Topics: GNU Emacs, Emacs Lisp
  • Virtual format with satellite event in Lucerne, Switzerland

Recent Events (Past Year)

RacketCon 2024 (October 5-6, 2024)

  • Celebrating 40 years of Racket/Scheme
  • Keynote by Hal Abelson & Gerald Sussman
  • Sessions on language design, education, and practical applications

DEF CON 32 (August 8-11, 2024)

  • World's largest hacking conference
  • Cutting-edge cybersecurity research and demos
  • Hands-on villages and competitions

Significant Events (Past 5 Years)

SPLASH 2023

  • Programming language research and development
  • Focus on program synthesis and verification

Clojure/West 2017

  • Advancements in Clojure tooling and libraries
  • Real-world Clojure adoption stories

Google I/O Extended 2024

  • Latest in Android, AI/ML, and web technologies
  • Developer-focused workshops and code labs

JuliaCon 2016

  • Growth of Julia language ecosystem
  • Scientific computing and data science applications

ICFP 2020

  • Functional programming advances
  • Type theory and formal verification

Recommended Events 2024-2025

Lambda Days 2025 (February 2025, exact dates TBA, Krakow, Poland)

  • Focuses on functional programming across various languages
  • Often features Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, and other FP languages
  • Good for cross-pollination of ideas in the FP community

BOB 2025 (March 2025, Berlin, Germany)

  • "Best of Breed" conference for developers, architects, and decision-makers
  • Often features talks on Clojure and other modern programming paradigms
  • Good European option if you're interested in international perspectives

Data Council SF 2025 (April 2025, exact dates TBA, San Francisco, CA)

  • Focuses on data engineering, ML, and AI
  • Potential applications of Clojure in data science
  • Broadens perspective on how Clojure fits into the larger data ecosystem

Boston-area Events

O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference (Spring 2025, Boston, MA)

  • Covers software architecture principles applicable to any language
  • Often includes sessions on functional programming and microservices

DevOpsDays Boston 2025 (Autumn 2025, Boston, MA)

  • Focuses on DevOps practices and culture
  • Opportunity to explore how Clojure fits into modern DevOps ecosystems

Boston Clojure Group Meetups (Various dates throughout 2024-2025)

  • Regular local meetups for the Clojure community in Boston
  • Great for networking and staying updated on local Clojure developments

Recurring Annual Events

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Last Updated: 2024-10-22 23:19:59