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Yes, SQL!
Uri Cohen reviews SQL and distributed data stores, presenting how various API’s – memcached, SQL/JDBC, JPA - can be used to interact with such data stores, specifying what jobs they are best used for.
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Transforming to Groovy
Venkat Subramaniam explains some of the Groovy syntax elements and its idioms by taking Java code examples and transforming them step by step into their more concise Groovy counterparts.
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LMAX - How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency
Martin Thompson and Michael Barker talk about building a HPC financial system handling over 100K tps at less than 1ms latency by having a new approach to infrastructure and software.
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Using REST for SOA
Stefan Tilkov makes a case for using REST for SOA showing how to implement tricky features like encapsulation, transactions, stateful communication, notifications, and security at the enterprise level
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Abstractions at Scale–Our Experiences at Twitter
Marius Eriksen considers that leaky abstractions lead to scalability issues, while those providing narrow access to explicit resources - map-reduce, shared-nothing web apps, big table - scale better.
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Development at the Speed and Scale of Google
Ashish Kumar on how Google keeps the source code of over 2000 projects in a single code trunk containing 100s of M of code lines, with more than 5,000 developers accessing the same repository.
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Google App Engine for Business 101
Christian Schalk introduces GAE, focusing on the upcoming GAE for Business, demoing some of its new features like hosted SQL, SSL, and SSO.
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Availability, the Cloud and Everything
Joe Williams discusses how distributed systems, cloud computing and configuration management affect system’s availability. He exemplifies with a database service built on CouchDB, Erlang, Chef, EC2.
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What's New in Spring-WS 2.0?
Arjen Poutsma introduces Spring-WS, and shows what’s new in Spring-WS 2.0 using demos: an improved @Endpoint model, Spring 3 and Java 5++ support, full streaming, and integration test support.
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Scaling Australia's Most Popular Online News Sites with Ehcache
A real-world experience of implementing Ehcache at Australia's most visited online news site. How to deal with high traffic, concurrency, and how to implement linear scalability.
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Spring AMQP
Matthias Radestock introduces messaging, AMQP and RabbitMQ. Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack present and demo Spring AMQP, an abstraction layer for using AMQP independently from the broker implementation.
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Adopting Apache Cassandra
Eben Hewitt introduces the Apache Cassandra project to those interested in getting a quick clear picture of what Cassandra is, what are its main features, what is the the data model used and the API.