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Engineering for Scale at VMTurbo
Sylvia Isler presents a microservices case study and lessons learnt - how VMTurbo took the plunge to evolve its monolithic system architecture into a system based on composable microservices.
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The Dos and Don'ts of Multithreading
Hubert Matthews describes some of the problems encountered in multithreading and discusses how to avoid them through appropriate design choices.
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Microservices or SOLID Services?
Ondrej Krajicek discusses how basic techniques - SOLID principles, Design by Contract - and certain metrics can be used in architecting microservices, and the benefits resulting from using them.
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Rapid Product Design in the Wild
Michele Ide-Smith discusses the benefits and pitfalls of doing live design in front of potential customers and competitors, and challenges faced using Lean UX within a centuries-old institution.
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Design: A Tricky Business
Hannah Tometzki shares advice from experience on going through the hurdles of project design - customers dragging their feet, rekindling waning enthusiasm and handling distractions.
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The Art of Protocol Design
Pieter Hintjens presents a decade of research and practice in designing protocols using cheap experimentation, exploring of new avenues, and smooth accumulation of gradual change, driven by real use.
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From How to Design to What to Design
Jean Louis Frechin discusses NeoObjects, a set of services, experiences, forms and practices which are meant to help evolve design and widen its scope of intervention.
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What Developers Need To Know About Visual Design and UX
Ben Hall explores the five key topics around design that can make or break an application and website: Layout and the golden ratio, Typography, Imaginary, Colors and User Feedback.
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Creative/designer/developer Relationships in a Device Agnostic Landscape
John Skinner debates the web designer-developer roles in today’s agile technology environment, arguing that it is time to redefine these roles.
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Diagrams, Xtext and UX
Jan Koehnlein shows how to integrate Xtext and FXDiagram into an Eclipse-based IDE with a demo including graphics with smooth transitions, diagram-text navigation, animated undo/redo, and others.
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Cheats & Liars: The Martial Art of Protocol Design
Pieter Hintjens presents strategies and tactics - lifecycles, versioning, modeling, code generation, implementations, community building- for creating successful protocols that stand the test of time.
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Physical Computing, or How Software Meets Christmas Trees
Tom Igoe overviews some of the tools of physical computing and discusses how and by whom they’re being used to create new connected devices.