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Building the Halo 4 Services with Orleans
Caitie McCaffrey does an overview of Orleans, the challenges faced when building the Halo 4 services, and why the Actor Model and Orleans in particular were utilized to solve these problems.
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To the Moon
Russ Olsen tells the moon landing story and how it has affected the software development.
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Customer Insight, from Data to Information
Thore Thomassen shares from experience how to combine structured data in a DWH with unstructured data in NoSQL, and using parallel data warehouse appliances to boost the analytical capabilities.
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Lessons Learned Running a Remote Diary Study
Adam Parker tells how they planned and ran a diary study, what they did during the 3 weeks of the study, how they analyzed the results, and what they learned by doing it.
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The Architecture of Uncertainty
Kevlin Henney looks at how uncertainty, lack of knowledge and options can be used to partition and structure the code in a system.
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User Perspective Design – Integrating Responsive Containers and Content
Colin Burns takes a look at the creative forces shaping BBC’s approach to the future, examining how to create innovative experiences across different screens.
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Tiny
Chad Fowler attempts to convince people that keeping things "tiny" –small iterations, small methods, small teams - is the best thing one can do for himself and his team.
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Exploring Melody Space with Clojure, Overtone, core.async and core.logic
Thomas Kristensen describes the overall architecture of Composer, a system for composing musing, showing how to build a system that achieves responsiveness while still being flexible.
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Lambda Architectures in Practice
Gian Merlino presents the advantages, challenges, and best practices to deploying and maintaining lambda architectures in the real world, using the infrastructure at Metamarkets as a case study.
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Efficient Data Storage for Analytics with Parquet 2.0
Julien Le Dem discusses the advantages of a columnar data layout, specifically the features and design choices Apache Parquet uses to achieve goals of interoperability, space and query efficiency.
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Stuff I Learned about Performance
Mike Barker shares lessons learned at LMAX Exchange: starting from a clean domain model is imperative and understanding the trade-offs between performance and safety/generality/functionality.
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Distributed Platform Development with Groovy
Dan Woods discusses the approach to developing a scalable enterprise architecture, and demonstrates implementations based on the variety of technologies available from the Groovy ecosystem.