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Introduction to the Azure Service Platform
Beat Schwegler talks about writing Windows Azure services using .NET and SQL Services. He also explains how to create or enhance existing applications in order to make use of the Azure platform.
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Hypertable - An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database
This presentation discusses Hypertable, an open source, high performance, distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable. Doug offers a comprehensive discussion of all aspects of Hypertable.
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Harnessing the Cloud
Mr. West provides a detailed view of cloud computing and how it can be harnessed for benefit. Issues covered include: agile economies, mobile knowledge workers, the cloud, and global organizations
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GluCon: Post-it Notes (mini-Keynotes)
This presentation is a collection of four fifteen-minute mini-keynotes presented at the Glue conference in Denver, 2009. All presentations focused on aspects of "gluing together" web applications.
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Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology
In this talk from FutureRuby, Jesse Hirsh explains the history of Imperial California and the means by which its ideology infects everyone.
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Terrible Noises for Beautiful People
In this FutureRuby session, Misha Glouberman has the audience make terrible noises and behave like a giant cellular automaton - among other things.
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Multicore Programming in Erlang
Ulf Wiger shows typical Erlang programs, patterns that scale well on multicore and patterns that don't, profiling and debugging parallel applications and ensuring correct behaviour with QuickCheck.
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Building Context Aware Services using Identity as Foundation
This presentation explores the issue of context automation, the forces driving it (e.g. clouds and extensible browsers) before focusing on the role of identity services as a key factor.
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The Internal Design of Force.com’s Multi-Tenant Architecture
Craig Weissman, Chief Software Architect at Salesforce.com, presents their multi-tenant architecture, one shared database and one application stack, that has proven to scale well over the years.
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Hooking Stuff Together - Programming the Cloud
Gregor Hohpe of Google discusses software as connecting services and components, describes the constraints of connected systems design, and presents common design patterns to solve those constraints.
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Bindings, Platforms, and Innovation
This presentation focuses on the Internet and separating myth from fact, history from the future, and the mundane from the imaginative. Bob Frankston presents a vision of what could and should be.
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Neo4j - The Benefits of Graph Databases
This presentation covers the use of graph databases as an optimal solution for data that is difficult to fit in static tables, rapidly evolving data or data that has a lot of optional attributes.