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Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about how Heroku, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.
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QCon is an enterprise software development conference for team leads, architects, and project managers covering Architecture & Design, Java, .NET, Emerging Languages, NoSQL, Browser as a Platform, Software Craftsmanship, SOA, Agile methodologies and other timely topics. Last years' QCon London drew over 500 people despite the economic downturn. There were thousands of tweets and hundreds of blogs written by attendees - see Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2009 for a feel!
The QCon conferences are taking place yearly in London, San Francisco and Beijing!
The 4th annual QCon London (March 10-12) has been announced and registration is open!
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Tracks for QCon London
- Architectures You've Always Wondered About
- Dev and Ops: A single team
- Non-Relational DBs & Web Oriented Data
- Programming Languages
- Software Craftsmanship
- 2015 Software Development
- Agile Evolution
- AlphaGeeks on .NET
- Cloud Solutions
- Irresponsible Architectures and Unusual Architects
- Browser as a Platform
- Cool Stuff with Java
- How do you test that?
- SOA 2010
- The Concurrency Challenge
Some of the speakers
 Dan Ingalls The principal architect of five generations of Smalltalk environment |
 Ralph Johnson Co-author of the now-legendary book, "Design Patterns" and "Gang of Four" member |
 Joe Armstrong Father of Erlang |
 Ola Bini Jruby Core Developer, book author |
 Rod Johnson Creator of Spring |
 Michael Nygard Jruby Core Developer, book author |
Previous QCon videos
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Rich Hickey - "Persistent Data Structures and Managed References" |
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Paul Downney - "Standards are Great, but Standardisation is a Really Bad Idea" |
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Tony Hoare - "Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake" |
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Jonas Bonér - "Pragmatic Real-World Scala" |
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Aditya Agarwal - "Facebook: Science and the Social Graph" |
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