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Partial Failures in a Microservices Jungle: Survival Tips from Comcast
Jon Moore goes over some strategies for surviving in a jungle of partial failures. Each survival tip is explained through a concrete example, or "adventure story", from Comcast’s TV experience.
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Managing Complexity, Functionally
Ryan Trinkle explores functional techniques for managing complexity, examines what makes them successful in pure functional programming, and proposes ways that they can be applied in any context.
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Erlang in the Cloud: The Talko Service Architecture
Ransom Richardson presents the Talko service architecture, its implementation and operation in the cloud, why they are using Erlang for it and key things learned along the way.
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REST for an Hour
Lyndsey Padget introduces the basic principles of RESTful APIs, terminology, design patterns, data, pitfalls, best practices, and others.
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Five Elements of Superior Developer Portals
Hadi Michael explores the elements commonly found on developer portals, and identifies those that consistently contribute to superior developer experiences.
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API Virtualization – Mocking on Steroids
Ole Lensmar takes a look at a number of common API virtualization use cases - design-first development, sandboxing and load testing - to see how and when virtual APIs can help and when they can’t.
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Making Distributed Data Persistent Services Elastic (Without Losing All Your Data)
Joe Stein introduces Mesos and managing data services on it, presenting use cases for replacing classic solutions (like cold storage) with new functionality based on these technology.
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The Timeless Way of Building Erlang Apps
Garrett Smith outlines a methodology for pattern discovery and presents a number of specific patterns that Erlang programmers can use to build programs that feel alive.
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Accessibility for UX: Don't Worry, It's Much Worse Than You Think
Elle Waters discusses UX and accessibility, providing guidelines for web content accessibility and assistive technologies along with five techniques to be used in daily work.
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Pulsar: Real-time Analytics at Scale
Sharad Murthy & Tony Ng present Pulsar, a real-time streaming system which can scale to millions of events per second with high availability and 4GL language support.
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Build Something That Your Users Want - an Introduction to BDD
Nathan Peterson introduces Behavior Driven Development, showcasing its adoption by his team along with successes and failures using it.
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Evolving Projects to Concurrency with Wrangler
Simon Thompson shows how Wrangler can help with making systems run on multi-core hardware, including three Wrangler refactoring techniques for retrofitting concurrency to Erlang applications.