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Polygot Architecture for Rapid Release: Friend or Foe?
Rachel Laycock discusses using a polyglot build and deployment infrastructure that makes life easier.
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The Fundamentals of JVM Tuning
Charlie Hunt presents the fundamentals of JVM tuning and provides advice for developers on writing a Java application that performs well at runtime.
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Dumb and Dumber: How smart is your monitoring data
Big Data is all the rage right now. Everyone from a social media company to your grandmother's online knitting store is suddenly a big data shop.
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Racing Thru the Last Mile: Cloud Delivery Web-Scale Deployment
Alex Papadimoulis discusses various deployment strategies, scalable delivery, with examples from real-world organizations such as AllRecipes.com, Twitter, and Google.
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Large-Scale Continuous Testing in the Cloud
John Penix describes the test automation system and the supporting build system infrastructure used by Google.
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Cooking on Gas: How to Use Chef to Get a Better Cloud Deal
Stephen Nelson-Smith discusses the idea of financial intermediation in cloud computing and explores how to use the Chef cloud automation framework to make it easy to move between cloud providers.
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Architecting for High Availability
Attila Narin discusses AWS concepts: Availability Zones, RDS Multi-AZ deployments, SQS and Auto Scaling, Elastic IP, load balancing, DNS, DynamoDB, Amazon S3, etc., and EC2 best practices.
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How NOT to Measure Latency
Gil Tene introduces and demonstrates how simple and recently open sourced tools can be used to improve and gain higher confidence in both latency measurement and reporting.
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Timelines at Scale
Raffi Krikorian explains the architecture used by Twitter to deal with thousands of events per sec - tweets, social graph mutations, and direct messages-.
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(un)Common Sense
Mike Solomon shares some of the experiences and lessons learned scaling YouTube over the years.
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Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Applications
Emad Benjamin explains how to deploy and tune a JVM on a virtual infrastructure (vSphere), and how to tune the garbage collector in this environment.
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Springing Forward with Roo Add-ons
Ken Rimple shows how to write Spring Roo commands and features using the OSGi-based add-on API and how to extend the Roo shell using various Roo objects such as the FileManager and the ProjectManager.