Presentations

• Posted by Kellan Elliott-McCrea  on  Nov 06, 2012
  Optimized for Change: Architecture @ Etsy

  Kellan Elliott-McCrea discusses the technological and process changes Etsy has been going through the last two years in order to make the website more resilient.

  Kellan Elliott-McCrea

  on  Nov 06, 2012

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• Posted by Rob Daigneau  on  Nov 05, 2012
  Web API Evolution

  Rob Daigneau discusses some of the challenges met when creating and maintaining web APIs, impediments and design patterns for web API evolution.

  Rob Daigneau

  on  Nov 05, 2012

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• Posted by Paul Fremantle  on  Nov 02, 2012
  Introduction to Stratos

  Paul Fremantle introduces Stratos/Stratos Live, explaining some of the design decision made for it, the tenancy model used, and some of its capabilities.

  Paul Fremantle

  on  Nov 02, 2012

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• Posted by Justin Sheehy  on  Nov 02, 2012
  Embracing Concurrency at Scale

  Justin Sheehy discusses designing reliable distributed systems that can scale in order to deal with concurrency problems and the tradeoffs required by such systems.

  Justin Sheehy

  on  Nov 02, 2012

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• Posted by Jim Weirich  on  Nov 01, 2012
  Y Not? - Adventures in Functional Programming

  Jim Weirich uses Y-Combinator as a tool to explain the nature of functional programming.

  Jim Weirich

  on  Nov 01, 2012

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• Posted by Ola Bini  on  Nov 01, 2012
  Expressing Abstraction - Abstracting Expression

  Ola Bini attempts to answer a few questions: Why are new languages still being created, Is it worth choosing languages strategically, and Does language actually matter?

  Ola Bini

  on  Nov 01, 2012

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• Posted by Jan Bosch  on  Nov 01, 2012
  Speed and Innovation through Architecture

  Jan Bosch discusses the importance of speed and innovation in software development, covering Innovation Experiment Systems, a 3 layer product model, and the role of architecture and scalability.

  Jan Bosch

  on  Nov 01, 2012

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• Posted by William E. Byrd  on  Oct 31, 2012
  Relational Programming in miniKanren

  Daniel P. Friedman and William E. Byrd demonstrate miniKanren, a simplified version of KANREN - a declarative logic programming system with relations embedded in a pure functional subset of Scheme.

  William E. Byrd Daniel P. Friedman

  on  Oct 31, 2012

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• Posted by Leonard Richardson  on  Oct 30, 2012
  How to Follow Instructions

  Leonard Richardson discusses REST and hypermedia links and forms – seen as instructions from the server to the client. Client using instructions can be reused and support complex behavior.

  Leonard Richardson

  on  Oct 30, 2012

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• Posted by Andy Gross  on  Oct 29, 2012
  Building Cloud Services with Riak

  Andy Gross reports on how Basho used Riak and Erlang to build their cloud storage service.

  Andy Gross

  on  Oct 29, 2012

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• Posted by Michael Stonebraker  on  Oct 26, 2012
  Not Your Father’s Transaction Processing

  Michael Stonebraker compares how RDBMS, NoSQL and NewSQL support today’s big data transaction processing needs. He also introduces VoltDB, an in-memory NewSQL database.

  Michael Stonebraker

  on  Oct 26, 2012

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• Posted by Matthew Flatt  on  Oct 26, 2012
  The Racket Way

  Matthew Flatt explains the Racket – a Lisp dialect – way through examples: everything is a program, concepts are language constructs, the language is extensible, and everything composes.

  Matthew Flatt

  on  Oct 26, 2012

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