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Architecture Without an End State
Michael Nygard outlines 8 rules for dealing with complex systems: Embrace Plurality, Contextualize Downstream, Beware Grandiosity, Decentralize, Isolate Failure Domains, Data Outlives Applications ...
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Adapting UX Techniques to Fit Culture
Sedef Gavaz discusses the importance of adapting UX techniques used to the target audience, organization and culture, sharing lessons learned while working in China.
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Building Highly Available Systems in Erlang
Joe Armstrong discusses highly available (HA) systems, introducing different types of HA systems and data, HA architecture and algorithms, 6 rules of HA, and how HA is done with Erlang.
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Building a Great Web API
Evan Cooke discussing ways of building Simple APIs with fast signup, a clear value proposition, efficient quick start, concise documentation, easy authentication and debuggable.
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Applying the Principles of Stage Magic to the User Experience
Danno Ferrin suggests applying principles used in magic for a UX: Consider the Stage and the Audience, Practice, Overcome Objections Before They Arise, Patter and Showmanship, Sleight of Hand, ...
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Testing Domain-Specific Languages
Lennart Kats introduces Spoofax, a language for testing the syntax and semantics of domain-specific languages, enabling the creation of test cases using fragments of the language being tested.
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Application Performance Monitoring with AMQP 1.0
Marc Borbas discusses the importance of Application Performance Monitoring, explaining how it can be done with AMQP.
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The Evolving Panorama of Data
Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons discuss how data has changed over the years, what is IT’s response to this change, and how data is used by organizations these days.
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Keeping Movies Running Amid Thunderstorms!
Siddharth Anand presents how Netflix’s architecture evolved from a traditional 3-tier configuration to a cloud-based one, detailing the scalability and fault tolerant issues encountered.
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Your Cloud and RabbitMQ
Alexis Richardson discusses how messaging is performed in the cloud from a Management, Integration, Scale and Federation perspective, demoing vFabric RabbitMQ’s implementation of AMQP.
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Banking Case Study: Scaling with Low Latency using NewSQL
Jags Ramnarayan and Jim Bedenbaugh present the case of a bank who adopted SQLFire, covering the business requirements, the scalability issues, patterns used and the chosen solution.
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To Java SE 8, and Beyond!
Simon Ritter discusses the future of Java, taking a look at proposed features and roadmap for Java 8 through 12.