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Breaking the Monolith
Stefan Tilkov suggests breaking a system into several subsystems, separating the micro and macro architecture, and addressing various integration issues in order to get a suppler architecture.
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New Rules for Good UI Design: Rules, Tips and Tricks for Designing an Enjoyable Software Experience
Joe Nuxoll provides rules, tips and tricks for creating a great user interface that can improve the user experience.
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Enterprise Mobile Web Development
Robert Altland discusses what makes a great enterprise mobile application: types of apps, features, technologies and best practices.
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The Future With AMQP
Matthew Arrott considers that messaging is at the heart of distributed computing transforming the network into a destination through process choreography and cooperation.
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Hybrid Mobile Applications using PhoneGap
Dave Johnson introduces PhoneGap: how to write apps with it, the existing community, an API overview, extending PhoneGap, tooling, libraries, and an argument on web vs. native apps.
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Architecting in the Gaps
Eoin Woods suggests creating the architecture of a system by discovering the interactions between the components and focusing on the boundaries, helping with defining the interfaces and interactions.
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Techniques for Scaling the Netflix API
Daniel Jacobson covers the history of Netflix’s APIs, adaptation for the cloud, development and testing, resiliency, and the future of their APIs.
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JavaScript Today and Tomorrow: Evolving the Ambient Language of the Ambient Computing Era
Allen Wirfs-Brock reviews the evolution of JavaScript, observing its current status and foreseeing its near future, supporting the idea that JavaScript’s role will be even more predominant.
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Agile/UX Panel
Jeremy Sutherland, Darius Kumana, Eewei Chen, Darci Dutcher, and Richard Muscat (moderator) discuss the relationship between Agile and UX design.
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Automatic Performance Programming?
Markus Püschel proposes to solve scientific calculation performance problems with code generation tools, introducing Spiral, an automatic performance programming framework for linear transforms.
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Uptime in High Volume Messaging Systems — Lessons Learned
Erik Onnen shares lessons learned while designing the architecture, implementing it, and releasing it into operations at Urban Airship, providing hosting for mobile services.
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Architecting for Failure at the Guardian.co.uk
Michael Brunton-Spall talks about various types of system failure that can happen, sharing the lessons learned at the Guardian and measures taken to prevent and mitigate failure.