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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.
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Architecture at Scale at ESPN
Manny Pelarinos presents ESPN’s overall and core service architecture, the data ingest process, the custom CMS and template language used, and how live scores and personalization work.
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Webr-DNQ - Web Application Development with Pleasure
Maxim Mazin and Evgenii Schepotiev discuss the advantages of using DSLs by exemplifying application development with JetBrains MPS (Meta Programming System) and the Webr-DNQ framework.
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Keynote: How the 10 Key Lessons from Java and C++History Inform the Cloud
Cameron Purdy discusses how Java’s strengths over C++ helped it prevail in the Internet era, and how the history lessons of that time may help us understand what to do in the new cloud computing era.