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Programming and Testing a Distributed Database
Reid Draper shows how real world distributed database work, communicate and are tested, trading RPC for messaging, unit-tests for QuickCheck, and micro-benchmarks for multi-week stress tests.
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Creating Shared Value through Design
Fabio Sergio provides examples showing how design can result in solutions addressing system-level problems affecting people living in resource-challenged areas of the world.
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Confined Gradual Typing
The authors discuss gradual typing, combining static’s safety and dynamic’s flexibility in a single programming language by implicitly inserting casts where needed.
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Worse Is Better, for Better or Worse
Kevlin Henney revisits the original premise and definition of “Worse is Better”, and looks at how this approach to development can still teach something surprising and new.
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0 – 100 MPH - Launching a New Product at Scale
Dan Macklin explains why bet365 has adopted Erlang as a core development platform and goes through the highs and lows of managing change in one of the world's biggest on-line bookmakers.
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The Indian Design Tradition - Folklore and Fluidity in both Function and Form
Nagaraju Pappu introduces the design language used by Indian civilization in creating beautiful art from temples to textiles, to music and murals.
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Rate Types for Stream Programs
Thomas Bartenstein, Yu David Liu introduce RATE TYPES, a new type system to reason about and optimize data-intensive programs, performing static quantitative reasoning about stream rates.
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Big Data in Memory
John Davies shows a Spring work-flow consuming 7.4kB XML messages, binding them to 25kB Java but storing them in just 450 bytes each, 10 million derivative contracts in-memory on a laptop.
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IoT Realized - The Connected Car
This session explores the power of Spring XD in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Crafting Experience Strategy
Cathy Wang discusses experience strategy: what it is, relationship with UX, business and service design, different approaches to it, and how it can help to achieve success.
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One Weird Trick for Making Perfect Software
Pieter Hintjens teaches a trick he is using daily to create better software clients.
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Gobblin: A Framework for Solving Big Data Ingestion Problem
Lin Qiao discusses the architecture of Gobblin, LinkedIn’s framework for addressing the need of high quality and high velocity data ingestion.