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The API Platform
Gregory Brail discusses about APIs, what an API platform is, how the typical API call flows-security, authorization, authentication, caching, etc., and some of the challenges in using an API platform.
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The Sequential Prison
Ivan Sutherland elaborates on the idea of a “prison” defined by sequential computers that work with sequential character strings making communication expensive and obstructing concurrency.
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StormMQ – Cloud-based Message Queues
Ross Cooney presents a case study of how Smith Electric Vehicles uses StormMQ in production. StormMQ is a cloud-based provider of secure AMQP services.
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Scaling Agile to the Enterprise
Dennis Stevens discusses the theory of Agile, providing references for using Agile in the enterprise along with a competency model, and overviewing an enterprise Agile transformation.
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Coming Out of Your Shell: Using UX Workshops to Your Advantage in a Techie/Scientific Setting
Jenny Cham teaches how to plan workshops having a technical or scientific audience in order to impress the audience, get feedback and get the best results.
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How We (Mostly) Moved from Java to Scala
Graham Tackley discusses how The Guardian switched all new development from Java to Scala, why they did that, what were the benefits and the problems, and why they did not choose Python+Django.
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Architecture Choices for Scalable Cloud Apps
Mark Fisher and Thomas Risberg transform a monolithic cloud application by changing its relational DB with a NoSQL one, introducing modularity, polyglot support and enterprise integration patterns.
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From Small Beginnings to a Great Destination - AMQP 1.0
Carl Trieloff, Kim Palko and John Camilleri present how AMQP was born and how it has been embraced by various industries, and how it is used by RedHat and Green Energy.
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Love All the People: What UX Practitioners Can Learn from Bill Hicks
Ian Fenn shares some techniques used by comedians and can be used in UX, starting with honesty. He concludes his session: “if you want to change the world, be prepared to knock over some tables.”
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Titanic, COBOL and the 100 Year Platform
Ola Bini discusses what features a long lasting platform should have, and takes a look at Java to see if it can be that platform.
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Chloe and the Real Time Web
Trotter Cashion introduces and demoes Chloe, a web server that handles real time data streaming between browsers and web applications written in any language and using any framework.
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It's More than Just the Language
Lúcio Ferrão talks about making the software appealing to the business by using a visual language and an integrated environment supporting the entire life cycle of application development.