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Not Your Father’s Transaction Processing
Michael Stonebraker compares how RDBMS, NoSQL and NewSQL support today’s big data transaction processing needs. He also introduces VoltDB, an in-memory NewSQL database.
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The Racket Way
Matthew Flatt explains the Racket – a Lisp dialect – way through examples: everything is a program, concepts are language constructs, the language is extensible, and everything composes.
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Runaway Complexity in Big Data, and a Plan to Stop It
Nathan Marz outlines several sources of complexity introduced in data systems - Lack of human fault-tolerance, Conflation of data and queries, Schemas done wrong - and what can be done to avoid them.
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The State of JavaScript
Brendan Eich reviews the history of JavaScript, then introduces and demonstrates some of the new features coming in ES6.
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Computing Like the Brain
Jeff Hawkins discusses 3 operating principles of the neocortex and introduces Grok, a predictive modeling product based on those principles.
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Pushing The Limits of Web Browsers … or Why Speed Matters
Lars Bak presents several language virtual machines (Self, Strongtalk, Hotspot), why they matter and how they influenced V8 and Dart. His talk is centered on performance.
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Hadoop and Cassandra, Sitting in a Tree ...
Jake Luciani introduces Brisk, a Hadoop and Hive distribution using Cassandra for core services and storage, presenting the benefits of running Hadoop in a peer-to-peer masterless architecture.
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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Meta-Programming Java
Howard Lewis Ship explains how to perform meta-programming in Java using annotations, bytecode manipulation and component architecture, as it is done by the Tapestry framework.
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Distributed Systems with ZeroMQ and gevent
Jeff Lindsay discusses creating distributed and concurrent systems using ZeroMQ – a lightweight message queue-, and gevent – a coroutine-based networking library.
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Skynet: A Scalable, Distributed Service Mesh in Go
Brian Ketelsen introduces Skynet, a platform for polyglot, distributed and composable services that communicate with each other over RPC/JSON.
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Glu-ing The Last Mile
Ken Sipe introduces Glu, an open source deployment automation tool coming from LinkedIn, showing how to perform Glu configuration along with a demo of using it.
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Building Polyglot Systems with Scalang
Cliff Moon discusses Scalang, a message passing and actor library enabling easy communication between Scala and Erlang apps, wrapping services in Scalang actors.
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