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Culture Hacking: The Prospect of Magnificence
Jim McCarthy discusses culture hacking, expressing a particular hacker ethos originating in the world of software hacking, promoting freedom, openness, and embodying rationality and design elegance.
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A Little Graph Theory for the Busy Developer
Jim Webber explains how to understand the forces and tensions within a graph structure and to apply graph theory in order to predict how the graph will evolve over time.
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A Guide to Python Frameworks for Hadoop
Uri Laserson reviews the different available Python frameworks for Hadoop, including a comparison of performance, ease of use/installation, differences in implementation, and other features.
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Evolving Panorama of Data
Rebecca Parsons reviews some of the changes in how data is used and analyzed, looking at how data is used to track violence, and attempts to predict famine and other crises before they happen.
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Leveraging Scriptable Infrastructures, Towards a Paradigm Shift in Software for Data Science
Karim Chine introduces Elastic-R, demonstrating some of its applications in bioinformatics and finance.
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Resiliency through Failure - Netflix's Approach to Extreme Availability in the Cloud
Ariel Tseitlin discusses Netflix' failure-based suite of tools, collectively called the Simian Army, used to improve resiliency and maintain the cloud environment.
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Amazon DynamoDB Design Patterns & Best Practices
Siva Raghupathy discusses DynamoDB Design Patterns & Best Practices for realizing DynamoDB benefits at the right cost.
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HTML5 Adoption in Finance - Migration Strategies and Challenges
Chuck Doerr, Asim Malik discuss tools and techniques used by financial firms for native HTML5 UX, and approaches for achieving application interoperability and incremental adoption of HTML5.
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Building Modern Web Sites: A Story of Scalability and Availability
Sid Anand uses examples from LinkedIn, Netflix, and eBay to discuss some common causes of outages and scaling issues. He also discusses modern practices in availability and scaling in web sites today.
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Combining JavaScript with Other Languages on the Web
Alon Zakai discusses using Emscripten, Embind and asm.js to generate JavaScript code from other languages, in an attempt to make such code run at near native speeds.
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Surviving Big JavaScript Projects
Anton Kovalyov provides an inside look into a large JavaScript project, presenting techniques for maintaining code quality while allowing the team to push lots of changes every day.
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Testable JavaScript
Mark Ethan Trostler conducts a tutorial on getting started with JavaScript testing.