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Modeling Complex Game Economy with Neo4j
Yan Cui shares lessons learned using Neo4j to model the in-game economy of the "Here Be Monsters" game and automate the balancing process.
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Mobile-first Architectures
Alexander Stigsen explores the challenges & opportunities in developing for the new mobile cloud, where most of the processing power is not in a datacenter but in the pockets of users.
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Ground-up Introduction to In-memory Data
Viktor Gamov covers In-Memory technology, distributed data topologies, making in-memory reliable, scalable and durable, when to use NoSQL, and techniques for Big In-Memory Data.
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Modern Fast Streaming Data
Todd Montgomery challenges some of the common myths and misconceptions about high performance streaming data, and takes a look at what is really possible today.
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Reporting and the First Law of Holes
Sebastian von Conrad advises on reporting: capturing the right data at the right time, best practices and cleaning up reporting debts in code bases.
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Akka Streams: Streaming Data Transformation à la Carte
Viktor Klang explores fast data streaming using Akka Streams - how to design robust transformation pipelines with built-in flow control able to take advantage of multicore and go over networks.
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Making Distributed Data Persistent Services Elastic (Without Losing All Your Data)
Joe Stein introduces Mesos and managing data services on it, presenting use cases for replacing classic solutions (like cold storage) with new functionality based on these technology.
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Pulsar: Real-time Analytics at Scale
Sharad Murthy & Tony Ng present Pulsar, a real-time streaming system which can scale to millions of events per second with high availability and 4GL language support.
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Exploratory Data Analysis with R
Matthew Renze introduces the R programming language and demonstrates how R can be used for exploratory data analysis.
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Spreadsheets for Developers
Felienne Hermans presents various algorithms that outlining the power of Excel, showing that spreadsheets are fit for TDD and rapid prototyping.
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The Many Faces of Apache Kafka: How is Kafka Used in Practice
Neha Narkhede discusses how companies are using Apache Kafka and where it fits in the Big Data ecosystem.
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Netflix’s Viewing Data Microservices: How we Know Where you are in House of Cards
Matt Zimmer discusses architectural patterns -service decomposition, stateless application tiers, and polyglot persistence- and migration strategies used by Netflix.