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Facebook Messages: Backup & Replication Systems on HBase
Nicolas Spiegelberg discusses Facebook Messages built on top of HBase, the systems involved and the scaling challenges for handling 500TB of new data per month.
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Clojure in the Large
Stuart Sierra shares patterns and techniques useful in large scale Clojure applications.
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Surviving in a Feudal Security World
Bruce Schneier puts security in the context of today's allegiance to cloud and SaaS providers, the recent news about PRISM and the lack of privacy for us as citizens.
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API Conf Panel: Emerging Automation Layers on Top of Today’s APIs
The panelists present various approaches to API automation, sharing from their experiences.
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API Conf Panel: API Design Best Practices
Jakub Nesetril, Tony Tam, Kirsten Jones share tools and tips for building great APIs.
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Beyond Contracts: An Exploration into Unified Specifications
Paul deGrandis emphasizes the importance of using specification-as-a-value, a way of unifying core.contracts, test.generative, and external systems under a single common specification in Clojure.
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Deleting Code at Nokia
Tom Coupland discusses some of the various technologies investigated, and in many cases deployed at Nokia including Gradle, Spring, MongoDB and Clojure.
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The Big Data Revolution
Claudia Perlich keynotes on M6D’s approach to Big Data, using data granularity to build predictive models used for user targeting, bid optimization and fraud detection.
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Protecting Mobile Apps and Security around Bring Your Own Device
Alex Batlin and Shane Williams explore the challenges faced maintaining the security of mobile apps and also take a look at the enterprise implications with the push for BYOD.
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The Why, What and How of Open Data
Jeni Tennison explains how to evaluate an organization's data assets as potential sources of open data, and how to deal with the thorny issues of derived and personal data.
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The Architecture of core.logic
David Nolen discusses the architecture of core.logic, examining the various design decisions that allow different constraint solvers to peacefully coexist under the same framework.
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API Conf Panel: APIs, Platforms and Ecosystem
The panelists explore the challenges API platform owners and users face in conflict situations and can be done to mitigate them.