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Deliberate Advice from an Accidental Career
Dan North shares some of the interactions with people that have shaped his accidental career: when he killed the production database, when the boss was wrong, when he was wrong, when he tried to quit.
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Understanding and Using Regular Expressions
Damian Conway discusses what regexes really are, how they actually work, and how programmers can make use of their existing software development skills to construct correct and efficient regexes.
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Identity Is the New Currency
Paul Simmonds discusses the importance of identity and attribute information that will define how access to the functionality and how data is governed by applications in the near future.
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Is It A Car? Is It A Computer? No, It's a Raspberry Pi Java Carputer
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Oracle, Simon Ritter looks at how Embedded Java and a Raspberry Pi were used for Audi S3, and how JavaFX has been used for an in-car information system.
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Enterprise Integration Using REST: A Case Study
Brandon Byars discusses the constraints and the flexibility of nonpublic APIs, and lessons learned from scaling RESTful integration across more than a dozen teams.
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Help, My Security Officer Is Allergic to DevOps
Frank Breedijk addresses security concerns raised in a DevOps environment that practices continuous deployment.
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Going Native with Apache Cassandra
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by DataStax, Johnny Miller introduces the Cassandra native protocol, native drivers and CQL, explaining how to query Cassandra without Trift or RPC.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Crypto Again
Graham Steel discusses several cryptographic standards and examines the key management and cryptographic primitives offered by some of most widely encountered crypto APIs.
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Reflections on Mistrusting Trust: How Policy & Technical People Use the T-word in Opposite Senses
Caspar Bowden discusses about duplicity, the impact of Snowden's revelations on the society and what can be done about trust today.
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Building Resilience: How Outages Shaped Etsy's Systems
Avleen Vig presents some of the most unexpected, confusing, hilarious and face-palming events during Etsy's outages to show what can be learnt from their problems to build more resilient systems.
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A Big Data Arsenal for the 21st Century
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by MongoDB, Matt Asay discusses the differences between some of the NoSQL and SQL databases and when Hadoop makes sense to be used with a NoSQL solution.
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Risk Management is Project Management for Grown-Ups
Tim Lister presents the advantages—and the dangers—of practicing risk management in an adult-like fashion, offering a process for tailoring an organization and discussing how it can grow up.