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REST, And Now for Something Completely Different
Mike Amundsen offers a deeper explanation of REST, going beyond URIs, HTTP or web pages to the architectural style REST provides and the 6 constraints imposed by REST.
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Clojure-powered Startups
Paul deGrandis examines three startups and their technology needs, risk and tradeoffs, presenting how Clojure did its part in their success.
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Simple Made Easy
Rich Hickey discusses simplicity, why it is important, how to achieve it in design and how to recognize its absence in the tools, language constructs and libraries.
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Language-based Security as Extreme Modularity
Jonathan Shapiro, Dean Tribble, Marc Steigler, David Wagner and Mark S. Miller (moderator) present their view on achieving security while using modularity for building large systems.
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The Future of the Mobile Web Platform
Tobie Langel reviews the current state of the mobile web platform, covering especially existing specifications, how they are implemented in various mobile devices and what is to expect in the future.
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Erlang, The Road Movie
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses cloud, multi-core, integration, high availability, and imperfect software starting from discoveries made while learning Erlang.
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Introduction to Windows Azure Service Bus
Joe Feser discusses how to enhance a legacy application into a disconnected hybrid app using Pub/Sub capabilities of the Windows Azure Service Bus.
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Statistical Graphics, ClojureScript, &c.
Kevin Lynagh discusses information design and why he thinks programmers suck at that, and how one can implement great data visualizations with Clojure and ClujureScript.
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Event Sourced Architectures for High Availability
Martin Thompson discusses achieving high availability by using an event sourced architecture in which changes of the system’s state is captured as a sequence of events.
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Android Protips
Michael Pardo offers tips for creating usable and good looking Android applications: remember the user, make everything easy, be nice to the user, the device and yourself.
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Building Technology Mid-flight
Sam Hamilton discusses the technological, architectural and organizational changes an organization goes through in the process of upgrading its software stack without interrupting daily business.
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Zero to Ten Million Daily Users in Four Weeks: Sustainable Speed Is King
Jodi Moran discusses achieving sustainable speed through: iterate and automate, use commodity technology, analyze and improve, build services, create a high-speed culture.