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Catching up with Swift
Ash Furrow discusses Swift, why Swift was needed, the Objective-C problems it addresses, and how ready it is from both technical and business standpoints.
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Applying Reactive Programming to Existing Applications
Ben Christensen discusses the mental shift from imperative to declarative programming, working with blocking IO such as JDBC and RPC, service composition, debugging and unit testing.
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Five Techniques to Improve How You Debug Servers
Tal Weiss explores five crucial Java techniques for distributed debugging and some of the pitfalls that make bug resolution much harder, and can even lead to downtime.
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New in ECMAScript 2016, JavaScript's First Yearly Release
Brian Terlson presents the changes TC39 is making to its specification publishing process for ES2016 and beyond.
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Build a Workplace People Love - Just Add Joy
Richard Sheridan discusses the cultural norms that remove fear and encourage experimentation, and the elimination of meetings and the rituals and ceremonies that accompany them.
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Building Business UIs with EMF Forms
Maximilian Koegel introduces declarative UI modeling, the EMF Forms framework and its tooling to create view models, sharing from his experience applying the concept to commercial projects.
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The Vorto Project - Advanced Device Integration
Olaf Weinmann, Alexander Edelmann introduce the Vorto project, an approach to leverage the standardization of Information Models, providing a few examples for code generators.
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A Polyglot Approach to Enterprise Software
Scott Shaw, James Gregory describe the benefits of a polyglot approach to building enterprise software, showing how diversity can shorten feedback cycles and expose hidden business model assumptions.
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Scaling Uber's Real-time Market Platform
Matt Ranney explains the Uber architecture overall, with a focus on the dispatch systems, the geospatial index, handling failure, and dealing with the distributed traveling salesman problem.
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Typesafe Scala, Typelevel Scala – What’s Going On, Anyway?
The panelists discuss the Scala compiler fork (typelevel.org): Is this a positive and natural outgrowth of a growing language or will this development cause irreparable rifts in the Scala community?
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Financial Modeling with Apache Spark: Calculating Value at Risk
Sandy Ryza aims to give a feel for what it is like to approach financial modeling with modern big data tools, using the Monte Carlo method for a a basic VaR calculation with Spark.
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Microservices and the Art of Taming the Dependency Hell Monster
Michael Bryzek presents lessons learned building an expansive microservice architecture at Gilt - an organization with 1500 git repositories and over 400 individual applications.