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Building Resilience: How Outages Shaped Etsy's Systems
Avleen Vig presents some of the most unexpected, confusing, hilarious and face-palming events during Etsy's outages to show what can be learnt from their problems to build more resilient systems.
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The Haxl Project at Facebook
Simon Marlow describes a concurrency-based system built with Haskell that allows front-end programmers to write business logic to access all the back-end services in a concise and consistent way.
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Applied API Design
Jon Skeet provides practical advice on designing APIs using immutability, separation of concerns and other principles, resulting in elegant and reusable code.
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A Big Data Arsenal for the 21st Century
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by MongoDB, Matt Asay discusses the differences between some of the NoSQL and SQL databases and when Hadoop makes sense to be used with a NoSQL solution.
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Mechanical Sympathy
Martin Thompson ponders if there is a mechanical sympathy between developers and computers, and how to balance elegant design with the application of science in the development of modern software.
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How to Make the Most of Code Analysis?
Patrick Smacchia shares code analysis-related practices - structuring code, measuring code quality, automated tests, code contracts, reporting progress, trending- based on his experience with NDepend.
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How JavaScript Objects are Implemented
Eddy Bruel details how objects are implemented internally in SpiderMonkey as shape trees and slot vectors to minimize the memory footprint and obtain better JIT optimization with inline caching.
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Data Movement at Very Large Scale
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Solace Systems, Aaron Lee discusses the challenges moving information and techniques that can increase efficiency of data flows within big data architectures
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Fault Tolerance Made Easy
Uwe Friedrichsen discusses implementing resilient software design patterns (code included) and improving those patterns to achieve robustness and becoming a resilient software developer.
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A Practical Implementation of Async
Mitchel Sellers uses multiple real-world applications to show practical implementations of Async within actual applications, covering various scenarios and implementations of the Async pattern.
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The No-framework Scala Dependency Injection Framework
Adam Warski shows how to replace features of DI containers with plain Scala code using MacWire, and adding interceptors using macros.
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From Instability to Resilience: The Story of a Web Site
Richard Campbell shares his experiences evolving a web site from ordinary to resilient, the triage process, the quick-and-dirty solutions as well as the work to bring the site to true resiliency.