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QCon London 2010!
March 10-12, 100
Speakers, 80 sessions,
"THE" team leads and,
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Presented by Bertrand Delsart on Oct 22, 2008
Unix, Linux Uptime & Reliability Increase While Patch Management Woes Plague Windows (Yankee Group)
I just listened to a conference talk by by a guy making software for running stock-exchange markets. He said they have tried everything low-latency and are now on running plain vanilla java on modified linux operating systems. I.e. in order to improve latencies and speed of java, use the same version as everyone else and tweak the operating system so it spends more of the time running your code.
Do you have a link? The name of the presenter? The name of the talk, of the conference?
Brian Marick takes us through a quick tour of the most important values and challenges to adopting Agile successfully (they aren't the typical challenges and values we hear in the community).
The line between development and architecture is tricky. Does it exist at all? Is an ivory tower actually needed? There's a balance in the middle, but how do you move from developer to architect?
The word 'authority' sometimes produces an allergic response in hard-line agilists. Freedom and authority – both are bad if misused and both are good if used in right spirit for a noble cause.
"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
Those familiar with only ITIL V2 often scoff at the thought that ITIL could serve as a governance framework for SOA. With ITIL V3, the focus of the framework shifted towards service-orientation.
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer discusses AspectJ, SpringSource's dm Server and tc Server products, OSGi and Scrum.
Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about Rails, Background Jobs, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.
For Grady Booch the foundation of a good architecture is patterns, SOA being just one of many patterns. In this Second Life presentation, Booch attempts to bring more clarity on what architecture is.
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