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Put a UI Developer in a Bank; See What Happens
Horia Dragomir takes a look at how banks are improving their workflow for web based applications and how they have to support everything from the bleeding edge to the old IE browsers.
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How to Turn Startup Ideas into Reality by Taking Money from Strangers
Ian Brookes provides advice to startups on how to convince venture capitalists to invest in their business.
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Cloud Computing at Google
Randy Shoup details some of the pieces forming Google’s technology stack, BigTable, Megastore, Dremel, virtualization, etc. and the design principles of their their cloud-based applications.
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Introduction to Actors Systems
Josh Suereth designs a distributed search service with Akka using Actors, covering: message passing, designing topologies, handling failure, service overload detection and tracking user sessions.
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Breaking News and Breaking Software
Andy Hume shares details of the processes and approach used by The Guardian in developing and implementing quality in their front-end software.
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API Conf Panel: API Business Models
John Musser, Joe Rago, Augusto Marietti, Steven Willmott, Michael Vizard
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Sprints, Scala, Scale & Serendipity: Blue Sky Thinking and Washing the Pots on the Road to Success at a Technology Startup
Ian Brookes and Rob Strange recount the journey and relationship of a Tech start-up and its software development partner, with the milestones and millstones along the way.
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Racing Thru the Last Mile: Cloud Delivery Web-Scale Deployment
Alex Papadimoulis discusses various deployment strategies, scalable delivery, with examples from real-world organizations such as AllRecipes.com, Twitter, and Google.
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Domain-Driven Design with Clojure
Amit Rathore shares advice in building large scale applications in Clojure, making sure the code is readable and maintainable.
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Large-Scale Continuous Testing in the Cloud
John Penix describes the test automation system and the supporting build system infrastructure used by Google.
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Quora on Mobile: A Product-Centered Approach to Multi-Platform Deployment
Anne Halsall reviews the nearly two-year process of designing, developing, and releasing the official mobile apps for Quora, sharing lessons and advice for creating apps across multiple platforms.
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API Conf Fireside Chat: Peter Orlowsky, VP, Getty Images
Peter Orlowsky provides insights into the strategy choices that created Getty Images’ API program and the customer/business value the API creates.