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High Performance Mobile
Steve Souders discusses the importance of mobile performance, providing advice on creating more responsive mobile apps, and outlining the latest developments in analyzing mobile performance.
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Stratos: Open Source Platform-as-a-Service
Paul Fremantle discusses the benefits of using an open PaaS, detailing in this context the services provided by Stratos and StratosLive.
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NYTimes: World Class Journalism Accessible on Every Device
Brian Murphy on NY Times mobile: the architecture, cloud computing influences on design, native, HTML5 and hybrid apps, tools and frameworks employed and how the apps evolved over time.
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The Evolution of Integration
Paul Fremantle discusses the evolution of EAI, comparing the latest approaches, suggesting using Async Messaging, EDA, APIs, and doing high volumes, and underlining that evolution is not monotonic.
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Building Rich User Experiences without JavaScript Spaghetti
Jared Faris provides 3 principles –decouple everything, make it testable, push events not state – and some patterns which help avoiding creating JavaScript spaghetti code over time.
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Java EE 7 and HTML5: Developing for the Cloud
Arun Gupta presents the current developments on Java EE7 as a PaaS in the cloud and current work on Project Avatar which simplifies HTML5, Websockets and JSON programming for Java developers.
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NoSQL Database Technology: A Survey and Comparison of Systems
James Phillips presents the origins of NoSQL, followed by a comparison of various NoSQL solutions and ending with an architect’s view of Couchbase.
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Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages
Philip Wadler discusses second-order quantification, from its inception in the symbolic logic of Frege through to the generic features introduced in Java 5, touching on aspects of faith and evolution.
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Extreme Performance with Java
Charlie Hunt explains what can be done to lower the latency introduced by the Java GC and JIT, including coding tips, and introducing tools for tuning the performance of Java applications.
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Securing the Cloud: Identity Management and Network Security in the Cloud
Mark Ryland presents and demoes identity and access management concepts as used in the cloud and EC2 security groups and packet networking inside the Amazon AWS.
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The Challenge of Connected Data
Jim Webber talks about the data of these days, how integrated data looks, how to model it using actual data stores and the implications of this modeling.
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Platform Choices on Windows Azure (It’s not just ASP.NET and SQL Server)
Mark Rendle introduces the basic services offered by Windows Azure along with examples of various platform choices that can be used: RavenDB, ASP.NET MVC, Node.js + Express, MongoDB, Sinatra, etc.