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Asgard, the Grails App that Deploys Netflix to the Cloud
Joe Sondow presents how Netflix uses Asgard to deploy code updates and manage resources in the Amazon cloud.
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Taking the Long View: Code Generation and Software Maintenance
The panelists discuss if code generation techniques help or hinder long-term software maintenance, and how such techniques can be integrated in the maintenance process.
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The Free Lunch Is Over, Again
Andy Gross discusses the challenges introduced by distributed systems and the need for developing new skills and tools for dealing with them.
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Making the Internet a Better Place: Scaling AppNexus
Mike Nolet shares lessons learned scaling AppNexus and architectural details of their system processing 30TB/day: Hadoop, DNS built in GSLB and Keepalived, and real-time data streaming built in C.
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Keynote: Jeff Lawson on Software Development
Jeff Lawson shares some of the lessons learned in his career and discusses the current trends in software and challenges developers have to face.
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First, Let's Kill All the Product Owners
Tim Berglund shares the vision of an organization without product managers with its implications and boundaries, provoking the listener to take a bold step into that direction.
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Implementing a DSL for Social Modeling: an Embedded Approach Using Scala
Juan Manuel and Jesús López González share their experience gathered over five years designing and implementing Speech, a DSL for programming social processes.
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Apache Drill - Interactive Query and Analysis at Scale
Michael Hausenblas introduces Apache Drill, a distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets, including its architecture and typical use cases.
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The Functional Database
Rich Hickey discusses how a functional database can impact the programming model, using Datomic as an example, but the principles apply to other systems using an immutable database.
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C++14 Early Thoughts
Bjarne Stroustrup discusses features that might appear in C++14: braces for copy initialization, return type deduction in functions, generic (polymorphic) lambdas, user-defined literals, etc.
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Rock-solid UI Modeling using Annotation Processing
Gilles Di Guglielmo and Julien Baudry present patterns for solving UI issues –large forms, linked form fields, conditional field display, dynamic list content, incremental validation-, using modeling.
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MySQL Usage of Web Applications with 1 User and 100 Million
Peter Boros discusses a MySQL architecture useful for the majority of projects, backup, online schema changes, reliability and scalability issues, and basics of sharding.