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Ken Little on Scaling Tumblr
Ken Little talks about scaling Tumblr to keep up with their blogging users: scaling the data model, sharding, their PHP frontend and the Scala backend, and much more.
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Rob Daigneau on Service Design Patterns
Rob Daigneau talks about his book "Service Design Patterns" and the various patterns described in it, SOA vs Services, how to choose between REST, RPC and Messaging, and much more.
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Mike Lee on Game Design and Gamification
Mike Lee talks about Game Design, Gamification, and much more.
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Jim Webber on Neo4J and Graph Database Use Cases
In this interview recorded at QCon NY 2012 Conference, Jim Webber from Neo Technology discusses the Graph database ecosystem, graph use cases, and tools for developing applications using Neo4j graph database.
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Rich Hickey on Datomic, Data Storage, Functional Programming and Immutability
Rich Hickey explains how immutability enables Datomic's features and facilitates programming (not just in functional languages). Also: Datomic and other NoSQL stores, Clojure Reducers and much more.
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Gil Tene on Zing, Low Latency GC, Responsiveness
Gil Tene talks about how to achieve low latency and responsiveness in Java applications despite the GC, how the GC in Azul's Zing helps, where low latency is crucial, and much more.
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Eli Collins on Hadoop
Eli Collins discusses Cloudera's CDH4 release, which tasks are well suited for Hadoop, Hadoop and MapReduce vs SQL, the state of Hadoop, and much more.
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Max Sklar on Machine Learning at Foursquare
Max Sklar talks about machine learning at Foursquare, the use of Bayesian Statistics and other methods to build Foursquare's recommendation system and much more.
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Mike Stolz on NoSQL and Big Data Design Patterns
In this interview recorded at QCon New York 2012 Conference, VMWare's Mike Stolz talks about the design patterns that help with processing and analyzing the unstructured data. He also explains the patterns for combining Fast Data with Big Data in finance applications as well as the role of in-memory databases in NoSQL database space.