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On the Way to DSLs for Non-programmers
The authors share insights from their experience building DSLs for business people.
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Enterprise IT: What's Beyond Virtualization
Derek Collison discusses some of the technologies and approaches for building a self-healing infrastructure: Intelligent layer 7 SDN with semantic awareness, self healing techniques, etc.
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Employing Data Science to Enhance the Facebook Experience
Justin Moore shares how Facebook's own advances in Data Science have solved intricate location technology problems and how these lessons can be applied to other verticals to achieve similar gains.
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Distributed Systems and the End of the API
Chas Emerick discusses some of the common issues appearing in distributed systems and ways to solve them.
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Scaling Continuous Deployment
Avleen Vig discusses the changes Etsy has implemented to scale continuous deployments over the last 12 months, in both software and infrastructure.
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Erlang Patterns Matching Business Needs
Torben Hoffmann shares a number of patterns from Erlang systems, modeled through Object-Process Methodology, discussing their impact on business needs.
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The Art of Building Tools–A Language Engineering Perspective
Markus Völter suggests and illustrates creating development environments based on language workbenches that provide a generic infrastructure and can be easily extended and composed.
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That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp
Rick Reed shares scalability and reliability insights, techniques, and hacks used and learned developing WhatsApp on an Erlang/FreeBSD infrastructure.
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Caml Trading - Experiences with OCaml on Wall Street
Jane Street runs a large trading business on software written almost entirely in OCaml, a statically typed functional language. Yaron Minsky shows the reasons for choosing Ocaml and how it worked out.
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Computational Patterns of the Cloud
Ines Sombra discusses cloud computing’s paradigms and their applications with practical examples from Engine Yard’s customers, peers, and partners, covering antipatterns and myths.
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Finance's Forgotten Treasure: an Introduction to CQRS & Axon
Allard Buijze introduces CQRS and related concepts along with case studies showing how it is used in finance, gaming and healthcare to meet the demands of modern web-based applications.
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Why I've Come to Prefer Fluent APIs Over Other Kinds of DSLs
John Slaby discusses the reasons why he prefers fluent APIs and examine, through examples, the many different ways that Fluent APIs can be used to help produce better solutions than external DSLs.