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Delivering Performance Under Schedule and Resource Pressure: Lessons Learned at Google and Microsoft
Ivan Filho shares lessons learned during the development and release of several large scale services at Microsoft and Google from the perspective of a performance manager.
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Excel Coding Errors Are Destroying World Economies and F# (with Tsunami) Is Here to Stop Them!
Matthew Moloney discusses using F# and .NET inside Excel, demonstrating doing big data, cloud computing, using GPGPU and compiling F# Excel UDFs.
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The Yin and Yang of Hardware Heterogeneity: Can Software Survive?
Kathryn S. McKinley discusses research approaches and results that abstract, choose, and exploit hardware heterogeneity providing computational power at low energy consumption levels.
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Claims Based Authentication
Justin Kobel introduces claims-based authentication, what are claims, their life cycle, explaining how to consume them in .NET through a number of demoes.
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Online Controlled Experiments: Introduction, Insights, Scaling, and Humbling Statistics
Ronny Kohavi shares lessons learned, cultural and scaling challenges conducting hundreds of concurrent online controlled experiments at Bing.
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Curing Your Event Processing Blues with Rx
Donna Malayeri and Matthew Podwysocki discuss the JavaScript and .NET versions of Rx, as well as projects such as Rx.rb and RxCpp.
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Reasonable Code with F#
Mike Falanga shows several C# and F# solutions to common programming problems, comparing how well each language enhances the ability to draw accurate conclusions about the code.
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Demystifying .NET 4.5 Async
Mitchel Sellers introduces .NET 4.5 Async, showing how to use it by means of examples.
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The Evolution of Windows: WinRT
Raymond Chen tells the story of Windows’ API evolution from the beginning up to its latest version, WinRT.
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History of MonoGame
Dominique Louis covers the history of MonoGame from its roots in XNA and how the team ported it to 8 platforms. He demoes taking a simple 3D XNA sample from Windows to Android and Windows Phone 8.
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Modern Legacy Systems
Robert Annett explores some of the issues of upgrading, maintaining or replacing legacy Java and .NET applications that haven't been touched in a decade, providing advice on solving common problems.
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Shuttle Service Bus
Eben Roux introduces messaging using a service bus, explaining the differences between WCF, web services and a service bus, and demoes how Shuttle handles messages.