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Functional Reactive Programming in the Netflix API
Ben Christensen describes how Neflix has optimized their API using a functional reactive programming (modeled after Rx) in a polyglot Java stack.
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The Structure of API Revolutions
Daniel Jacobson shares advice on dealing with evolving APIs based on his experience with Netflix APIs.
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Riak and Dynamo, Five Years Later
Andy Gross reflects on five years of involvement with Riak and distributed databases and discusses what went right, what went wrong, and what the next five years may hold for Riak.
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Getting Physical: Networked Hardware with Node.js
Ted Hayes discusses WiFi, XBee and their associated network topologies, and demoes controlling a networked pong game with a physical joystick using Node.js.
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Integrating SQL & NoSQL & NewSQL & Realtime Data Intelligence for the Financial Industry
Charles Cai, Ashwani Roy discuss a robust, cost effective, hypothetical solution to address extreme challenges in financial institutions, from decision making support to pricing and risk management.
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The Past, Present, and Future of NoSQL
Matt Asay outlines the reasons for NoSQL's existence and persistence, and will identify the trends that point to a bright future for post-relational databases.
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A Little Graph Theory for the Busy Developer
Jim Webber explores graph data analytic techniques using social graph properties inspired by anthropology and sociology, extracting online business intelligence from graph matching.
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API Conf Keynote: Steve Klabnik on "Why Open?"
Steve Klabnik discusses the importance of having an open API, believing that those who have it will succeed in the long run, and the others will fail.
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API Conf Keynote: Jeff Meisel, National Instruments
Jeff Meisel shares insight in National Instruments’ attempt to create an open API for their software spanning 25 years.
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Go at Google
Rob Pike explains how Google designed Go to address major development issues they encounter while using other languages: long build times, poor dependency management, lack of robustness, etc.
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Architectural Patterns for High Availability
Adrian Cockcroft presents Netflix globally distributed architecture, the benchmarks used, scalability issues, and the open source components their implementation is based upon.
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PHP on the Metal with HHVM
Keith Adams shares details on building HHVM, a PHP VM built by Facebook, along with lessons learned doing it and tuning it for high performance.