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Exercises in Style
Crista Lopes writes a program in multiple styles -monolithic/OOP/continuations/relational/Pub-Sub/Monads/AOP/Map-reduce- showing the value of using more than a style in large scale systems.
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Agile Metrics and the Deadly Sins of Agile Measurement
Steve Lawrence showcases several agile metrics supporting an organization’s objectives, but also addresses some of the bad metrics and the 7 sins of Agile measurements.
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Stream Processing: Philosophy, Concepts, and Technologies
Dan Frank discusses stream data processing and introduces NSQ – Bitly’s open source queuing system – and other new technologies used for communication between streaming programs.
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Scaling out with Akka Actors
Joshua Suereth designs a scalable distributed search service with Akka and Scala using actors, and covering practical aspects of how to scale out with Akka’s clustering API.
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Dare Mighty Things: How JPL Explores the Cosmos through the Clouds
Rob Witoff presents how JPL and the Curiosity rover mission use cloud computing, including EC2, CloudFormation, and Simple Workflow - to enable research, engineering and operations technologies.
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The Trouble With Types
Martin Odersky outlines the main categories of static type systems as well as some new developments, and discuss the tradeoffs they make.
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"Big Data" Agile Analytics
Ken Collier discusses Agile Analytics, a combination of sophisticated analytics techniques, lean learning principles, agile delivery methods, and "big data" technologies.
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10 Lessons Learned In The Trenches
Gergely Timar shares lessons learned at Indextools, a web data analytics firm acquired by Yahoo!.
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High Speed Smart Data Ingest into Hadoop
Oleg Zhurakousky discusses architectural tradeoffs and alternative implementations of real-time high speed data ingest into Hadoop.
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Innovation in the Enterprise: The Intrapreneurs behind the Scene
Debbie Madden discusses the types of attributes intrapreneurs have in common, how one can identify an intrapreneur, and what can be done to impact technical innovation from a human perspective?
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Orchestrating Tasks from the Cloud with Groovy and AWS SWF
Clay McCoy discusses using Groovy’s metaprogramming capabilities and AWS SWF to deal with unreliable remote services, parallelization, scheduling critical timers, and server failures.