InfoQ Homepage QCon New York 2012 Content on InfoQ
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Making Things Work Together
Subbu Allamaraju discusses interoperability between web applications using ql.io, an Node.js-based HTTP gateway.
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The Costs and Benefits of Building Hypermedia APIs (with Node.js)
Mike Amundsen explores a way of designing hypermedia APIs based on messages instead of URIs, plus documenting, extending, versioning and registering hypermedia designs.
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Event Processing at Massive Scale
Uri Cohen discusses several types of queues with their pros and cons used in financial and trading industries for highly parallelized data processing.
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The Lazy Learner
Chris Matts discusses ways of learning - Kolb’s Circle of Learning, Meme Wombling, Hangover – with a focus on the cycle starting from Unconscious Incompetence to Conscious Competence.
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Unlocking Your Inner Node.js with Windows Azure
Glenn Block demoes deploying Node.js apps with npm to Windows Azure, leveraging storage and service bus services.
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Netflix: Movies, When You Want, Where You Want, from the Cloud!
Jeremy Edberg discusses running Netflix services on AWS: storage, streaming and scaling solutions, multi-region deployments, why cloud over private data center, and architectural snapshots.
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Mobile Social Apps, A Natural Fit
Aryeh Selekman discusses current trends in the mobile space, some of the technologies useful to integrate Facebook functionality into mobile applications and the latest W3C mobile standards under dev.
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The Database as a Value
Rich Hickey discusses the complexity introduced by a database into a system, and a way to deal with it by using Datomic. He also discusses immutability, epochal time, and persistent data structures.
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Hook-up to the Social Networks with OAuth 2.0
John Davies discusses passwords, the need for multiple passwords and password managers, and how OAuth is providing SSO for multiple sites, including an OAuth demo app for the iPhone.
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Creativity, Energy, Imagination and The Business Value of Joy!
Richard Sheridan presents tools and techniques for creating an intentional culture of joy lacking fear and ambiguity, the most productive environment in his opinion.
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Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with HTML, JavaScript and PhoneGap
Christophe Coenraets discusses strategies for creating large JavaScript MVC apps, and using PhoneGap for accessing native device capabilities and for packaging HTML apps.
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Co-Making Great Products
Jeff Patton presents a work style where everyone takes ownership of products, being involved in identifying and solving problems, and shares practices for collaboratively designing solutions.