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Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)

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  • Presented by Thibault Duplessis, founder of Lichess

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Software designDistributed systemsSoftware architectureScaling and large-scale architectureOpen source

Thibault Duplessis explains the architecture, open-source philosophy, and cheat detection mechanisms behind the Lichess chess platform.

Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis (@thibault) spoke about Lichess at Big Techday 10 of TNG Technology Consulting GmbH / tngtech.com on June 2nd, 2017 in Munich / Germany.

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What people say. Recommended as an inspiring talk on building and scaling a massive open-source platform with minimal resources.

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