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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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High Performance HTML5
Steve Souders discusses the impact of website speed on users providing advice on creating high performance HTML5 applications.
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Functional Thinking
Neal Ford emphasizes the fact that functional programming uses a different way of solving a problem, thinking about the results rather than the steps to make.
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TDD/BDD as Architectural Tools
James Kovacs explains how to use TDD and BDD to focus the architectural efforts on the high-value areas of the code in order to obtain just-in-time software architecture.
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Enterprise Integration–The Seriously Nasty Stuff
John Davies discusses enterprise scenarios where Spring Integration fits and some where it needs additional help from solutions such as SWIFT from C24 Integration Objects.
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Why CouchDB?
Benjamin Young introduces CouchDB, it’s schema-less data store, REST API, HTTP-based replication, plugins such as R-tree and GeoCouch, ways to scale it out and then scaling down with mobile solutions.
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Panel: NoSQL Applications
Andy Gross, Frank Weigel, Matt Pfeil, Jared Rosoff, and Michael Stack, moderated by Alexandru Popescu, discuss various NoSQL solutions, what they are good for, what they offer, how they compare, etc.