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Parallel Programming Patterns: Data Parallelism
Ralph Johnson presents several data parallelism patterns, including related libraries from Intel and Microsoft, comparing it with other forms of parallel programming such as actor programming.
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Webmail for Millions, Powered by Erlang
Scott Lystig Fritchie presents the architecture and lessons learned implementing a webmail system in Erlang, using UBF and Hibari, a distributed key-value store, to accommodate a large user base.
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Proving the Business Value of SOA
Anne Thomas Manes discusses SOA goals and objectives used to measure a system’s success, measuring the business value, SOA project metrics, and recommendations on proving the business value of SOA.
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JavaScript Functions: The Good Parts - Idioms for Encapsulation and Inheritance
Scott Bale explains how functions help to make use of encapsulation and inheritance in order to create modular applications in JavaScript employing modules, closures, and prototypes.
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Keeping Agile Agile
Dan North argues organizations need to continuously innovate, finding new ways and practices to develop software by looking at the motivations behind Agile practices and not just implementing them.
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Advanced GORM - Performance, Customization and Monitoring
Burt Beckwith discusses potential performance problems using mapped collections and Hibernate 2nd-level cache in GORM, along with strategies for avoiding such performance penalties.
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QCon Keynote: Forty Years of Fun with Computers
Dan Ingalls presents his journey through the world of software developing a number of core technologies over the last forty years, explaining what brought them forth and why they are fun even today.
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RESTful SOA or Domain-Driven Design - A Compromise?
Vaughn Vernon advocates using DDD’s strategic modeling patterns when integrating services in a RESTful SOA implementation, avoiding one of SOA’s pitfalls: focusing on services rather than the domain.
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Zero Investment SOA
Eric Jan Malotaux discusses implementing SOA in small iterative steps, each step delivering value to stakeholders, using feedback from previous steps to adjust the requirements and design accordingly.
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NoSQL at Twitter
Ryan King presents how Twitter uses NoSQL technologies - Gizzard, Cassandra, Hadoop, Redis - to deal with increasing data amounts forcing them to scale out beyond what the traditional SQL has to offer
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Enterprise NoSQL: Silver Bullet or Poison Pill?
Billy Newport explains the fundamental differences between SQL and NoSQL, creating awareness that NoSQL is not suited for many cases, and people should make informed decisions before buying into it.
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The Problem(s) with the Browser
Collin Jackson discusses ways to enforce browser session security against threats such as Cross-Site Request Forgery and various network attacks by using Local Storage and Strict Transport Security.
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