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Quora on Mobile: A Product-Centered Approach to Multi-Platform Deployment
Anne Halsall reviews the nearly two-year process of designing, developing, and releasing the official mobile apps for Quora, sharing lessons and advice for creating apps across multiple platforms.
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Co-making Great Products
Jeff Patton presents the process of co-creating products, where everyone is involved and responsible, taking examples from three companies he’s worked with.
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Architecting for Continuous Delivery
John Esser and Russell Barnett discuss Ancestry.com’s SOA implementation capable of supporting continuous delivery, architectural standards used, and how continuous delivery works for them.
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Data Modeling for NoSQL
Tony Tam shares tips for modeling data with MongoDB for a fast and scalable system based on his experience migrating billions of records from MySQL to MongoDB.
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JVM Mechanics – A Peek Under the Hood
Gil Tene discusses JVM observation-based runtime optimizations, ordering and memory model rules, basics GC functions, memory management, and JVM mechanics.
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Using Group Research to Answer Complex Questions
Joanna Zweig leads a workshop for practicing Cooperative Inquiry, a group learning technique meant to provide answers to complex questions based on group’s wisdom and knowledge.
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Building a Learning Organization (from any level)
Matt Barcomb discusses “amplifying learning”, focusing on setting up learning environments and common organizational pitfalls.
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Clojure in the Wild Web–7 Reflections
Ignacio Thayer shares his team’s experience working with Clojure, some of the problems encountered, and provides advice for a faster development cycle.
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Running with the Devil: Mechanical Sympathetic Networking
Todd Montgomery discusses messaging: application level batching, UDP datagram size’s impact on performance, sendmmsg/recvmmsg, implementing asynchronous calls.
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Polyglot Web Development With Grails 2
Jeff Brown discusses how Grails enables polyglot web development, with a focus on Scala and Clojure, and explains what it takes to add support for new languages.
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Enabling Collective Improvisation in Agile Software Development
Adrian Cho discusses applying Jazz performance principles to software development: managing friction, the importance of awareness, diversity, health, and leading on demand, embrace change and conflict
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Discovery Curves, Group Learning and Delivering
Joanna Zweig and César Idrovo discuss Discovery Curves - a model to chart a team’s ability to learn-, and a group improvement process using past experiences and identifying common characteristics.