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The API Platform
Gregory Brail discusses about APIs, what an API platform is, how the typical API call flows-security, authorization, authentication, caching, etc., and some of the challenges in using an API platform.
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The Sequential Prison
Ivan Sutherland elaborates on the idea of a “prison” defined by sequential computers that work with sequential character strings making communication expensive and obstructing concurrency.
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Automating (almost) Everything Using Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn
Ryan Slobojan discusses how to perform issue tracking, code review, commits and builds in an automated manner by integrating Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn.
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Cloud Foundry Boot Camp
Dave McCrory explains how Cloud Foundry works, demoing setting up and running an application on it and Micro Cloud Foundry, and using the services available in VMware’s cloud.
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Spring Data JPA – Repositories Done Right
Oliver Gierke demoes using Spring Data JPA to create repositories using a Domain-driven Design approach.
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And It All Went Horribly Wrong: Debugging Production Systems
Bryan Cantrill discusses debugging production systems using post-mortem debugging and dynamic instrumentation, with a bit of history and an introduction to useful debugging tools.
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Embedding Ruby and RubyGems Over RedBridge
Yoko Harada introduces RedBridge, aka JRuby Embed, a Java API for calling JRuby code that is treated as regular Java objects, explaining its relation to JSR223 and demoing how to use it.
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Effective Use of FindBugs in Large Software Development Efforts
William Pugh explains how to use FindBugs, a Java static code analysis tool, to discover bugs. The talk covers general issues regarding code bugs with advice on how to make sure you get rid of them.
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How We (Mostly) Moved from Java to Scala
Graham Tackley discusses how The Guardian switched all new development from Java to Scala, why they did that, what were the benefits and the problems, and why they did not choose Python+Django.
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Architecture Choices for Scalable Cloud Apps
Mark Fisher and Thomas Risberg transform a monolithic cloud application by changing its relational DB with a NoSQL one, introducing modularity, polyglot support and enterprise integration patterns.
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C# Async, From the Outside, From the Inside - Part 2
This is Part 2 of the session. Bill Wagner and Jon Skeet explain the basics of asynchronous operations in C# using the Async keyword. The session is spiced with live demos.
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Titanic, COBOL and the 100 Year Platform
Ola Bini discusses what features a long lasting platform should have, and takes a look at Java to see if it can be that platform.