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Dynamo: Theme and Variations
Shanley Kane discusses Dynamo - consistent hashing, vector clocks, hinted handoff, gossip protocol - advances in each area, and how querying and application development has changed as a result of them
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Integrating SQL & NoSQL & NewSQL & Realtime Data Intelligence for the Financial Industry
Charles Cai, Ashwani Roy discuss a robust, cost effective, hypothetical solution to address extreme challenges in financial institutions, from decision making support to pricing and risk management.
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The Past, Present, and Future of NoSQL
Matt Asay outlines the reasons for NoSQL's existence and persistence, and will identify the trends that point to a bright future for post-relational databases.
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A Little Graph Theory for the Busy Developer
Jim Webber explores graph data analytic techniques using social graph properties inspired by anthropology and sociology, extracting online business intelligence from graph matching.
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API Conf Keynote: Steve Klabnik on "Why Open?"
Steve Klabnik discusses the importance of having an open API, believing that those who have it will succeed in the long run, and the others will fail.
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API Conf Keynote: Jeff Meisel, National Instruments
Jeff Meisel shares insight in National Instruments’ attempt to create an open API for their software spanning 25 years.
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Go at Google
Rob Pike explains how Google designed Go to address major development issues they encounter while using other languages: long build times, poor dependency management, lack of robustness, etc.
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Cloud Foundry Architecture
Ramnivas Laddad sketches the architecture of Cloud Foundry, explaining how they manage to do hot swaps without application downtime, including lessons applicable in general distributed environments.
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MongoDB Large-scale Data Centric Architectures
Kenny Gorman provides advice on designing systems using MongoDB in order to avoid some of the pitfalls lurking along the way.
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Architectural Patterns for High Availability
Adrian Cockcroft presents Netflix globally distributed architecture, the benchmarks used, scalability issues, and the open source components their implementation is based upon.
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PHP on the Metal with HHVM
Keith Adams shares details on building HHVM, a PHP VM built by Facebook, along with lessons learned doing it and tuning it for high performance.
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Ozma: Extending Scala with Oz Concurrency
Sébastien Doeraene introduces Ozma – Scala extension providing declarative concurrency – with code samples, and explores what it takes to port it to JVM.