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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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Using a Service Bus to Connect the Supply Chain
Peter Paul van de Beek presents a case study of using an ESB in a supply channel, the context and challenges faced, the solution chosen and its implementation, how it worked out and lessons learned.
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DevOps for Business - Lessons Learned
Stephen Nelson-Smith shares the lessons learned by implementing Agile/Lean practices by both the development and operations team responsible for the creation and maintenance of a UK governmental site.
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Scaling Up by Scaling Down: Successful Agile Adoption in the Large by Focusing on the Individual
Amr Elssamadisy focuses on the individual and his responsibility to make things work in the team regarding the learning process, communication, dealing with upsets, ownership, and responsibility.
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Raising the Bar: Super Optimizing Your Agile Implementation Using Kanban and Lean
Jesper Boeg and Guilherme Silveira discuss if Lean&Kanban is better than traditional Agile, how they could go together, and determining if Lean&Kanban is appropriate for immature teams.
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The Private Cloud: Amazon, Google, ... and You!
Jon Brisbin tells how his company created a private cloud based on vSphere, tcServer, RabbitMQ, and REST, underlining the advantages brought by virtualization, parallelism, and asynchronicity.
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Making Your Open Source Project More Like Rails
Yehuda Katz presents the evolution of the Ruby on Rails project, the challenges it had to overcome and what are the lessons that could be helpful in making other open source projects successful.
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Android Squared
Bob Lee and Eric Burke present Square, a card reader used to receive payments through an Android device, presenting a point-of-sale API, and a library for persistence and REST communication.
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Global Software Delivery with Distributed Agile
Matthew Simons and Steven Boswell consider that distributed software development is a strategic capability for a company, presenting a framework and Agile practices for building such an environment.
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Agile Development: Overcoming a Short-term Focus in Implementing Best Practices
Karthik Dinakar presents a case study showing that trying to reach short-term goals by ignoring some practices can lead to long-term failures, how they recovered and recommends some best practices.
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Writing a Technical Book
Eric Merritt, Martin Logan and Richard Carlsson share their story, the challenges and lessons learned along the way as first time book authors of “Erlang and OTP in Action”.
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Danger! Software Craftsmen at Work
David Harvey explores the possible danger he sees in the current Software Craftsmanship discourse which can end up creating a barrier between the software builders and their customers.
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