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Petabyte Scale Data at Facebook
Dhruba Borthakur discusses the different types of data used by Facebook and how they are stored, including graph data, semi-OLTP data, immutable data for pictures, and Hadoop/Hive for analytics.
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The “Waste”berg: Traditional Project Resourcing Methods
Stacia Viscardi outlines the weaknesses of traditional resourcing methods and their illusion of efficiency, presenting a way for transitioning to a leaner and more innovative approach.
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The Open API Economy: What Is It and How Do I Capitalize On It?
Laura Olson presents the Web API market landscape, the business of creating and selling such APIs and the technology supporting this business.
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Computer Architecture of the 1960’s
Carlton Mills reviews Algol 60, PL/360, BLISS, Algol W, PL/1, C and C++, considering that rediscovering Algol could solve many of today’s Internet virus attacks and common programming errors.
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Real Time Bidding: Where Erlang Blooms
Fred Hebert discusses using Erlang for a real-time bidding system, providing some details of its design and architecture, along with lessons learned while implementing it.
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Accelerating the Web: How GPUs Make Browsers Fast
Jarred Nicholls explains how browsers leverage the GPU to speed up complex web pages by primitive drawing, composing layers and using tiles backing stores.
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Building Social Apps for All Mobile Platforms
James Pearce discusses the current trends in social applications and some of the challenges and solutions in creating HTML5 applications for mobile devices.
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This is Your Workflow on Catnip
Bodil Stokke introduces the productivity benefits of Catnip, a text editor with REPL (Read Eval Print Loop) functionality integrated into the Clojure environment.
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Agile and UX: How to Do Both and Not Lose Your Mind
Darci Dutcher provides practical advice for introducing UX to agile teams.
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Go: Code that Grows with Grace
Andrew Gerrand introduces Go, demoing some of its main features through examples: a concurrent echo server, chat, channels, error handling, etc.
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Testing Java Code With Confidence
Doug Hiebert discusses the principles and objectives behind automated testing, TDD, Unit and Integration Testing, using asserting and mocking to write tests, and static analysis.
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Taking Time Seriously
Bryan O'Sullivan introduces some of the technologies pioneered in the Haskell community to streamline software development and reduce operational costs, while producing beautiful code.
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