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Consistency Models in New Generation Databases
Roger Bodamer talks about consistency models in NoSQL databases, showing how different products deal with replication, multiple copies of information, consistency, failover, high availability.
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SOA, Service-Orientation and Cloud Computing: The Connection Points
Thomas Erl establishes the connection points between cloud computing and service-orientation looking at each's goals, characteristics, principles, types, and models.
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Keynote: SOASchool.com - The Service, The Cloud, and The Method
Thomas Erl opened the SOA & Cloud Computing Conference 2010 with a view on the relationship between SOA and cloud computing, underlining the opportunities and perils of using CC in SOA solutions.
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Being Elastic - Evolving Programming for the Cloud
Randy Shoup discusses the cloud programming model, covering topics such as state/statelessness, distribution, workload partitioning, cost and resource metering, automation, and deployment strategies.
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Introducing Apache Tomcat 7
Mark Thomas reviews some of the new features available in Apache Tomcat 7, including: Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, EL 2.2, asynchronous request processing, memory leak protection, and security improvements.
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Runtime Changes Are the Weeds Killing Your Crops
Spike Morelli discusses best practices behind creating Programmatically Generated Images, a tool for building and deploying system images that remain unchanged through QA, staging and production.
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Webmail for Millions, Powered by Erlang
Scott Lystig Fritchie presents the architecture and lessons learned implementing a webmail system in Erlang, using UBF and Hibari, a distributed key-value store, to accommodate a large user base.
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Advanced GORM - Performance, Customization and Monitoring
Burt Beckwith discusses potential performance problems using mapped collections and Hibernate 2nd-level cache in GORM, along with strategies for avoiding such performance penalties.
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NoSQL at Twitter
Ryan King presents how Twitter uses NoSQL technologies - Gizzard, Cassandra, Hadoop, Redis - to deal with increasing data amounts forcing them to scale out beyond what the traditional SQL has to offer
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Enterprise NoSQL: Silver Bullet or Poison Pill?
Billy Newport explains the fundamental differences between SQL and NoSQL, creating awareness that NoSQL is not suited for many cases, and people should make informed decisions before buying into it.
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Continuous Deployment to Production 50 Times a Day
Eishay Smith discusses the advantages of using continuous deployment (CD) at a rapid pace, dozens of times a day, the process and the tools needed to attain CD, and practices to ensure code quality.
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Squid Wrangling
Sam Newman and Chris Read describe the architectural change of a large European website by introducing a caching layer based on Squid, and the cultural change done by breaking down the dev-ops silos.