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Why I Chose MongoDB for guardian.co.uk
Mat Wall makes a journey through Guardian’s online history, outlining technologies used – Perl/CGI, CMS, J2EE, Oracle-, and explaining why they chose a NoSQL solution – MongoDB - and its advantages.
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Deliberate Practice
Jon Jagger on achieving expertise through deliberate practice, a process of doing new things or old ones but with a new approach, leading to improved technical agility through increased self awareness
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Things Break, Riak Bends
Justin Sheehy talks about failure and the need to prepare for it, giving some real life examples along with techniques implemented in Riak to make it resilient to faults.
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Clojure: The Art of Abstraction
Alex Miller presents some of the abstractions that make Clojure a great language: Collections, Sequence and Higher Order Functions, Multimethods, Protocols, Atoms, Macros, and others.
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Events Are Not Just for Notifications
Greg Young discusses how to use events to store data, and how testing, versioning and performance are impacted by an event-centered model.
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Design and Architecture Tools in Visual Studio 2010
David Starr presents some of the tools in Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 helpful for building an application’s architecture: Architecture Explorer, Dependency Graphs, UML Modeling, and Layer Diagrams.
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Building Solid Distributed Applications with Haskell and Riak
Bryan O'Sullivan discusses the design considerations and types usage when building distributed systems with Haskell and Riak, starting from a case study of a system using vector clocks.
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Enterprise Apps in 2011 and Beyond
Adrian Colyer discusses the current trends in cloud computing, covering especially PaaS with a reference at Cloud Foundry, and focusing on how it impacts enterprise application design and development.
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From .NET to Ruby: Adventure, Courage, and Joy
Jeff Cohen advises on how to switch from another language to Ruby and how to integrate it into the enterprise, presenting what are Ruby’s core elements and 5 myths about Ruby and Rails.
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Model Driven Development Beyond Code Generation
Darius Silingas discusses Test-driven Modeling, Model-driven Requirements Management and System Documentation, and Architecture Planning & Code Review, noting that MDD is more than code generation.
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Big Data in Real Time at Twitter
Nick Kallen discusses how Twitter handles large amounts of data in real time by creating 4 data types and query patterns -tweets, timelines, social graphs, search indices-, and the DBs storing them.
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A True Conversational Web
Robert Virding discusses conversational web services and how Erlang can provide the necessary tools to write 2-way conversational applications using WebSockets.
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