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MDSD on the iPhone
Heiko Behrens shows how to create an iPhone domain specific language using model-driven software development.
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Java SE: A Youthful Maturity
Danny Coward talks on how Oracle intends to maintain Java in the front line by investing in two features that are trendy today: support for multiple JVM languages and parallel programming.
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Perception and Action: An Introduction to Clojure's Time Model
Stuart Halloway discusses how we use a total control time model, proposing a different one that represents the world more accurately helping to solve some of the concurrency and parallelism problems.
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From Lessons Learned to Lessons Productized
Tim Wagner discusses how the Visual Studio team at Microsoft uses customer feedback to improve the development process, testing and productivity of a 50 MLOC product.
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Actor Thinking
Dale Schumacher explains the actor concept and how it helps us build a computational model resembling the reality around us more accurately than the object-oriented model.
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Registration of Rights - A Visionary Public SOA-Project
Henrik Hvid Jensen presents a SOA project meant to digitalize the registration of land property rights in Denmark, pointing to the architecture used, services and the registration process.
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CouchDB
CouchDB is a schema-free document database. But now that the NoSQL movement is in full swing, there are several document databases to choose from, so why choose Couch?
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League of Legends: Scaling to Millions of Ninjas, Yordles, and Wizards
Scott Delap and Randy Stafford explain the architectural decisions made in order to scale, monitor and operate the game League of Legends, bringing insight on how they use Oracle Coherence for that.
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Everything I've Ever Learned, I Learned from Failure
Robert Myers talks about the role played by failure in Agile development, sharing a number of Lean and Agile practices helping to embrace failure and showing how to interpret the feedback received.
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Implementing SOA through Linked Data
Thomas Bandholtz explains how Linked Data can be used to implement SOA in order to make datasets available throughout the enterprise, crosslink distributed datasets, and to master data management.
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Scaling the Social Graph: Infrastructure at Facebook
Jason Sobel presents the evolution of Facebook’s infrastructure over time, from the original LAMP stack to the present multi-datacenter configuration, the challenges faced and plans for the future.
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Parallel Programming Patterns: Data Parallelism
Ralph Johnson presents several data parallelism patterns, including related Java, C# and C++ libraries from Intel and Microsoft, comparing it with other forms of parallelism such as actor programming.