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Cloud Foundry: Inside the Machine
Derek Collison presents Cloud Foundry’s architecture with details on the Cloud Controller, the Service Provisioning Agent, the Droplet Execution Agent, and the Messaging System.
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Panel: Hadoop for the Enterprise Architect
Peter Sirota, Amr Awadallah, Eric Baldeschwieler, Ted Dunning, Guy Bayes, and moderator Ron Bodkin discuss various existing Hadoop use cases, ecosystems, and disaster recovery.
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Innovation at Scale Using Lean Thinking
Jez Humble discusses innovating using a Lean startup approach and overcoming innovation barriers in enterprises along with engineering practices useful for rapid delivery of quality software.
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Fast, Easy Usability Tricks for Big Product Improvements
Chris Nodder proposes a 5 steps process to improve a product: watch users using it, interpret what they are doing, generate product ideas, turn ideas into design, let users test the design.
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Transactions without Transactions
Richard Kreuter and Kyle Banker on how to avoid classical RDBMS transactional systems by using compensation mechanisms, transactional messaging or transactional procedures.
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Architecting Visa for Massive Scale and Continuous Innovation
John Davies examines Visa’s architecture and shows how enterprises have architected complex integrations incorporating Hadoop, memcached, Ruby on Rails, and others to deliver innovative solutions.
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Max Protect: Scalability and Caching at ESPN.com
Sean Comerford unveils ESPN.com’s architecture, what components are used and why, and the current changes the website goes through.
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Questions for an Enterprise Architect
Erik Dörnenburg answers: What is Enterprise and Evolutionary Architecture?, discussing 4 issues: Turning strategy into execution, Ensuring conformance, Where do the architects sit? Buying or building?
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How to Stop Writing Next Year's Unsustainable Piece of Code
Guilherme Silveira mentions some of the turning points in project development that may affect the quality of the code offering advice on avoiding writing crappy code.
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Understanding the Magic of Lean Product Development
Don Reinertsen examines lean methods including queue management, batch size reduction, WIP constraints, cadence, and the governing economic tradeoffs.
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How to get the most out of Spring and Google App Engine
Chris Ramsdale shows how to build Spring apps on Google App Engine, covering performance Google SQL Service and other advanced topics.
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Cloud Security or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud
Cloud security, according to IDC (2010), is the main worry for companies. Alon Hazy and Jakob Illeborg Pagter look at the threat landscape, and examine secure cloud solutions today and in the future.
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