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Neo4j: NOSQL and the Benefits of Graph Databases
Emil Eifrem overviews the trends leading to NOSQL, and four emerging NOSQL solutions. He also explains the internals of a graph database and an example of using Neo4j – a graph DB - in production.
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Understanding SOA Security Patterns
Jason Hogg discusses web services security obtained through threat modeling based on security design patterns, and explaining a number of such patterns related to processes, services and SOA security.
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The DCI Architecture: Lean and Agile at the Code Level
James Coplien explains the DCI paradigm used to better represent the user’s mental model through code, proposing a way of reintroducing architecture back to Lean and Agile projects.
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Social Networks: Getting Distributed Web Services Done with NoSQL
Lars George and Fabrizio Schmidt present Germany’s largest social networks, Schuelervz, Studivz and Meinvz, the initial architecture, why it didn’t work and how they solved it with a NoSQL solution.
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Data Presentation in a Web-App: Journey of a Start-up
Simon Oxley presents how his team built a monitoring and reporting web app, the challenges encountered and decisions made, the technologies and tools used, and what are the their plans for the future.
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Embracing Concurrency At Scale
Justin Sheehy explains the principles behind concurrent distributed systems: no global state, no ACID but rather BASE, no RPC but protocols over APIs, prepare for failure, degradation, measurement.
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Rapid and Reliable Releases
Rolf Russell & Andy Duncan discuss rapid and reliable releases from the build/release/devops perspective, considering relationships, metrics, required skills, and the need to cut waste and bottlenecks
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Save the Day with Noda Time
Jon Skeet presents Noda Time, a .NET port of Joda Time which is a Java library for handling time. Skeet discusses the troubles handling time with the .NET API, and how Noda Time solves those issues.
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The Present and Future of Web App Design
Torrey Rice presents relevant milestones in the evolution of the web from a UX perspective and tries to foresee the future of web development and what it will mean for developers and casual people.
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Project Voldemort at Gilt Groupe: When Failure Isn't an Option
Geir Magnusson explains why Gilt Groupe is using Project Voldemort to scale out their e-commerce transactional system, what are the benefits and what is the current architecture after ditching SQL.
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Standard Work and the Lean Enterprise
Alan Chedalawada discusses Standard Work for software organizations adopting Lean through: discovering best approaches, continually improving the standards, preserving the knowledge gained over time.
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The Need For Enterprise Agility – Vision and Case Study
Alan Shalloway discusses the need for lean enterprises to harmonize business with management and technical team. Eileen Shuter presents Vanguard’s journey adopting Agile then moving to Kanban.