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Model-driven Systems: What, Why and How to Test
Tim Trew presents several model-driven software development scenarios along with suitable testing approaches, contrasting the roles of MDSD and model-based testing.
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Mobile Data Access Patterns - Cross Platform Action with Mono
Travis Smith presents the challenges – inconsistent feature support - and advantages – code reuse - of developing cross platform mobile applications with Mono, focusing on data access patterns.
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It Is Possible to Do Object-Oriented Programming in Java
Kevlin Henney takes a philosophical approach to encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance, and explains what it means to write Java programs according to his view on OOP.
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HBase @ Facebook
Kannan Muthukkaruppan overviews HBase, explaining what Facebook Messages is and why they chose HBase to implement it, their contribution to HBase, and what they plan to use it for in the future.
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Acceleo: And You Thought You Knew Template-based Generators?
Stéphane Bégaudeau discusses Acceleo, an open source code generator based on EMF and MOFM2T, presenting its basic concepts, how it was created, how it can be improved, deployed, and used.
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Event Aggregator: Solving the Problem of Event Coupling
Donald Belcham presents the Event Aggregator pattern and the event problems it solves: tight coupling, refactoring difficulty, object chaining, memory leak, showing how to build one.
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Using Hypermedia Services for Systems Integration
Tim Ewald explains why hypermedia is good for system integration through services –providing support for evolution, service request routing, and application recovery-, and how to build such services.
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Orion: Software Development in the Browser
Boris Bokowski introduces Orion, a web-based development tool, explaining its design principles: integrating several Internet technologies, such as HTTP, REST, JSON, OAuth, OpenID, and others.
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Nokia: Lessons Learnt Migrating a Very Large and Highly Relational Database into a "Classic" NoSQL
Enda Farrell discusses how they ported Nokia’s places registry to NoSQL, the reasons, the complexity involved and the lessons learned along the way in terms of people, tools and data.
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Building Scalable Systems: an Asynchronous Approach
Theo Schlossnagle expresses his opinion on Big Data, NoSQL, cloud, system architecture and design, then he discusses the benefit of using asynchronous queues for building scalable systems.
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Let It Crash ... Except When You Shouldn't
Steve Vinoski explains how to avoid some of the Erlang errors that can bring down a system starting from the premise that not all the crashes are welcome as the “Let It Crash” philosophy might suggest
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When the Pressure Is Really On: A “Rough and Ready” Application of Lean and Kanban at the BBC
Katherine Kirk presents a case study of a small team which decided to use Lean and Kanban to rapidly iterate over the development of the BBC iPlayer.