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The Pursuit of Tappiness – a Case Study in Making Tablet Friendly Websites

Neil Turner discusses how TUI made two websites tablet friendly, what it means to optimize for tablet, how needed improvements were identified and how to ensure that future designs are tablet friendly

Neil Turner
on Feb 26, 2015

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How Can We Use Our Creative Power and Technological Opportunity to Address the Challenges of the 21st Century?

Gyorgyi Galik discusses our urban future and explores new possibilities to create projects and materials that change the environmental effects of art and design practices.

Gyorgyi Galik
on Feb 26, 2015

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Fast Conservative Garbage Collection

Rifat Shahriyar, Steve Blackburn, Kathryn McKinley show that conservative garbage collectors using Immix can be as performant and sometimes even faster than generational GCs.

Steve Blackburn Rifat Shahriyar Kathryn McKinley
on Feb 25, 2015

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Not Just Layers! What Can Pipelines and Events Do for You?

Ian Cooper takes a look at two architectural patterns: pipelines for dealing with streams of data effectively, and events which provide significant advantages for loose coupling.

Ian Cooper
on Feb 25, 2015

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Scalability Lessons from eBay, Google, and Real-time Games

Randy Shoup tells war stories from Google and eBay focusing on how to scale code, infrastructure, performance, and operations, along with hard-won lessons learned in scaling them.

Randy Shoup
on Feb 25, 2015

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SQL Strikes Back! Recent Trends in Data Persistence and Analysis

Dean Wampler takes a look at SQL’s resurgence and specific example technologies, including: NewSQL, Hybrid SQL, SQL abstractions on top of file-based data, SQL as a functional programming language.

Dean Wampler
on Feb 24, 2015

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Collaborative User Research - Ways to Involve Stakeholders in User Research

Revathi Nathaniel explains the benefits of collaboration during the various stages of conducting user research (from conception to data analysis) and simple methods to involve stakeholders.

Revathi Nathaniel
on Feb 24, 2015

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Consistency without Consensus: CRDTs in Production at SoundCloud

Peter Bourgon provides a practical introduction to Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) and describes a production CRDT system built at SoundCloud to serve several product features.

Peter Bourgon
on Feb 22, 2015

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Following Google: Don’t Follow the Followers, Follow the Leaders

Mark Madsen explains the history of databases and data processing over the past decades and looks where the industry will go.

Mark Madsen
on Feb 21, 2015

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The Old New Old New Things

Greg Young advises understanding the pros and cons of a system’s concepts and environments in order to avoid oscillating between options or choosing the wrong ones.

Greg Young
on Feb 18, 2015

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Rubah: DSU for Java on a Stock JVM

Luís Pina, Luís Veiga, Michael Hicks introduce Rubah, a method for dynamically updating applications running on the JVM.

Luís Pina Luís Veiga Michael Hicks
on Feb 18, 2015

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Comparing Elasticity of Reactive Frameworks

Elasticity is a key component in reactive systems and James Ward navigates the different characteristics of different implementations of this concept: Akka, Scala, RxJava, and more.

James Ward
on Feb 16, 2015

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