What is WebAssembly? WebAssembly was developed by Mozilla in 2015 while looking for a way to make JavaScript more efficient with heavy applications. If you have never heard about WebAssembly, check out the two videos in this … Read more
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Airbnb’s migration from monolith to microservices
So you’ve decided to migrate from monolith to microservices, what next? Such a redesign to service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a long, arduous journey that benefits from an incremental, iterative approach. Yet, such a microservices migration often … Read more
Async code on Kotlin: coroutines VS RxJava
A lot of Android programmers are now exploring Kotlin, a programming language based on Java and the JVM that is used to develop Android applications. As is often the case with Java-based Android apps, one of the main problems when approaching Android … Read more
Why do some machine learning models fail?
Everything is automatic and effortless with machine learning algorithms, right? Big data is all you need, after all. You have a dataset, you split it when necessary, you take one machine learning model, you train it and the miracle of a correct … Read more
Lazy Java
Introduction Laziness is one of the three great virtues of any programmer according to Larry Wall, author of the book Programming Perl. Consequently, it is no surprise that Mario Fusco, senior software engineer at Red Hat, highlighted the power of … Read more
Voice-based situational design, where context is king
According to the software giants, voice-based UI and conversational AI represent the next-gen computing interface. After decades of lower-level approaches, including character-based, graphical, Web, and mobile interfaces, it's time to use … Read more
Develop Microservices in PHP: an overview from Enrico Zimuel’s talk
Microservices architectural style has rapidly become the de-facto standard for continuously deployed systems and thus, it is widely adopted. Its main characteristics are enlisted in a definition given by Martin Fowler: the microservice architectural … Read more
Shokunin of the Web
The WWW, as we know it today, grants instantaneous access to on-demand content all over the world at any time, thanks to its fundamental pillars: HTML, CSS and JavaScript.From the very beginning of the Internet era, when the creation of websites was … Read more
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Community Management for DevelopersDownload our latest eBook to learn how to build a thriving coding community with no prior experience. We had Codemotion's own community managers and some of our members list down the essential skills, practices and … Read more
Front-end development with Angular & NgRx
Front-end development of web applications has always been challenging and never settles on established technologies for too long.In the last few years, the Single Page Application (SPA) paradigm has been widely adopted to build complex front-end … Read more
John Romero: 25 years of DOOM!
The creator of the iconic videogame DOOM , John Romero, started developing games in 1980,then he co-founders Id software, an American video game development company known for having produced very popular games such as Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake. He … Read more
Flutter for Android Developers explained by Faisal Abid
Flutter is one of the most interesting technologies among the new trends in mobile software development. Thus, it is no surprise that Codemotion Milan 2018 included a talk about Flutter in its agenda. Such talk was delivered by Faisal Abid, Google … Read more
How to Solve 5 Common Career Challenges for Developers
It's February, and most of you have probably enjoyed a break from work over the festive season. Less time coding and more time gaming or film watching. All that time with colleagues is replaced with family, friends and pets rather than coworkers. Did … Read more
Codemotion Milan Shares the Value of Community
Milan is a hotbed of community groups, building developing schools in English and Italian. We spoke to some of those involved to find out about the challenges, opportunities, and what insights they have to share with others interested in starting … Read more
Sacrificing Code Quality to hit Deadlines and Other Developer Team Dilemmas
Developers are under a lot of pressure to produce quality software and to do it quickly. But new research from Diffblue conducted by Vanson Bourne positions these as competing demands. 300 participants were surveyed who work in software development, … Read more
An ode to the Commodore 64 – Chiara Russo
This is my Commodore 64 and it's because of this that my passion for IT was born. With this I wrote my first lines of code. Who of you started in the same way, with a Commodore 64? Many, I'm sure! The Commodore 64 was the protagonist of an era, … Read more
Election technology: making voting great again?
Boris in No. 10, Putin in the Kremlin, Trump in the White House. Our voting decisions in national elections have an enormous impact, for better or for worse.But how to vote in an election is changing across the world, thanks to digital … Read more
Free coding lessons tackling women’s “imposter syndrome” in tech
Anna Brailsford, CEO at Code First: Girls, is training an army of coding women to infiltrate the "boys' club" of tech.Coding the future: Anna Brailsford What is Code First: Girls? Code First: Girls is one of the largest communities of … Read more
Jobs in artificial intelligence and robotics top LinkedIn list for 2020
Artificial intelligence specialist and robotics engineer are the fastest-growing jobs in the US, according to LinkedIn.The annual Emerging Jobs Report highlights the skills associated with these roles and the cities and industries in which … Read more
Dear recruiter: How can I get a job in tech with a disability?
Business consultant and disability advocate Neil Barnfather MBE tells us about what it's like having a disability in today's job market. Looking for a job is not always an easy task. Couple this endeavour with both practical and societal barriers and … Read more