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Hastily Paving the Way for Diversity
Anton Ekblad discusses the Haste Haskell-to-JavaScript compiler, how well JavaScript does as a target language, and how JavaScript could play better with FP compilers.
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Biological Realms in Computer Science
Didier Verna keynotes on the bonds between biology and computer science, how these bonds developed over the years, and how software could behave like living organisms.
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Canonical Models for API Interoperability
Ted Epstein shows how a shared canonical model can make life easier for API consumers, while still allowing the flexibility to expose different services, with different contextual requirements.
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The Next Wave of SQL-on-Hadoop: The Hadoop Data Warehouse
Marcel Kornacker presents a case study of an EDW built on Impala running on 45 nodes, reducing processing time from hours to seconds and consolidating multiple data sets into one single view.
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Evolving REST for an IoT World
Todd Montgomery explains using WebSocket and reactive programming in an event driven RESTful architecture for the emerging IoT world.
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Web & Database Load Testing with JMeter
Michael Dowden introduces JMeter and explains how to develop a data-driven methodology to determine some of the limits of a web application: max number of concurrent users, bottlenecks, etc.
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Finding the Needle in a Big Data Haystack
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Cloudera, Eva Andreasson discusses how search and Hadoop can help with some of the industry's biggest challenges. She introduces the data hub concept.
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Are You Ready for 1000-Way Parallelism on a Single Chip?
Andreas Olofsson reviews the history of processors and outlines some of the challenges ahead, introducing project Parallella meant to speed up the transition to massively parallel computing.
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JavaScript API Design Principles
Ariya Hidayat discusses principles for designing JavaScript APIs by observing the interactions between modules, particularly the influence of an interface on the code patterns.
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Identity Is the New Currency
Paul Simmonds discusses the importance of identity and attribute information that will define how access to the functionality and how data is governed by applications in the near future.
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Enterprise Integration Using REST: A Case Study
Brandon Byars discusses the constraints and the flexibility of nonpublic APIs, and lessons learned from scaling RESTful integration across more than a dozen teams.
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Building a Trading Platform in 6 Weeks in an Organization That Would Really Rather We Didn't
Lance Walton shares the experience of a small team building a trading platform in 6 weeks in Scala and Lift while fighting against an opposing organizational culture.