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How to Stop Writing Next Year's Unsustainable Piece of Code
Guilherme Silveira mentions some of the turning points in project development that may affect the quality of the code offering advice on avoiding writing crappy code.
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Soup 2 Nuts: Harnessing Soup2Nuts, Lean Thinking and Value to Break through Local Optimization Hell
Russ Miles discusses the importance of having values at the foundation of one’s beliefs which in turn influence the behaviors resulting in actions.
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One () to Rule them All
Aaron Bedra introduces Clojure and details how ClojureScript – a Clojure subset compiled to JavaScript - helps with web development.
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Understanding the Magic of Lean Product Development
Don Reinertsen examines lean methods including queue management, batch size reduction, WIP constraints, cadence, and the governing economic tradeoffs.
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High Performance HTML5
Steve Souders discusses the impact of website speed on users providing advice on creating high performance HTML5 applications.
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Panel: NoSQL Applications
Andy Gross, Frank Weigel, Matt Pfeil, Jared Rosoff, and Michael Stack, moderated by Alexandru Popescu, discuss various NoSQL solutions, what they are good for, what they offer, how they compare, etc.
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SimpleGeo: Staying Agile at Scale
Mike Malone discusses principles of good and bad (software) architecture determining SimpleGeo’s architecture: deal with change, embrace failure, phased adoption, balanced security, and others.
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Everything I Ever Learned about JVM Performance Tuning @twitter
Attila Szegedi discusses performance problems encountered at Twitter running Java and Scala applications, presenting how they solve them through JVM tuning.
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Dart: A Structured Web Programming Language
Gilad Bracha introduces Dart, Google’s new language for the web, explaining the reasons behind its conception, what it is and what it is not, some of the main features, unveiling plans for the future.
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Panel: Objects On Trial
Michael Feathers, Brian Foote, Richard P. Gabriel, Joshua Kerievsky, Eliot Miranda and Dave Ungar put Objects on trial and found them guilty for not living up to their promise.