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Cloud Security or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud
Cloud security, according to IDC (2010), is the main worry for companies. Alon Hazy and Jakob Illeborg Pagter look at the threat landscape, and examine secure cloud solutions today and in the future.
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High Performance HTML5
Steve Souders discusses the impact of website speed on users providing advice on creating high performance HTML5 applications.
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UI in an Agile Process - The Quick 'n' Dirty Approach in the Real World
Janne Jul Jensen presents the development process of a mobile banking application from prototyping to the actual product including SCRUM sessions, sprint evaluations, UI designing, and user feedback.
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TDD/BDD as Architectural Tools
James Kovacs explains how to use TDD and BDD to focus the architectural efforts on the high-value areas of the code in order to obtain just-in-time software architecture.
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Enterprise Integration–The Seriously Nasty Stuff
John Davies discusses enterprise scenarios where Spring Integration fits and some where it needs additional help from solutions such as SWIFT from C24 Integration Objects.
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SimpleGeo: Staying Agile at Scale
Mike Malone discusses principles of good and bad (software) architecture determining SimpleGeo’s architecture: deal with change, embrace failure, phased adoption, balanced security, and others.
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FamilySearch.org Case Study
Merlin Carpenter and Tim Stokes present the architecture of FamilySearch.org, a website and a system keeping track of historical data –birth, marriage, death, census records- of over 2 billion people.
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Design by Contract (DbC)
Joël Hébert introduces and demoes Design by Contract’s main concepts –preconditions, postconditions, object invariants- showing their benefits in creating more robust code.
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On Distributed Failures (and handling them with Doozer)
Blake Mizerany presents various ways that can lead to system failure in distributed systems and how to recover using Doozer, a highly available, consistent data store.
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Panel: Objects On Trial
Michael Feathers, Brian Foote, Richard P. Gabriel, Joshua Kerievsky, Eliot Miranda and Dave Ungar put Objects on trial and found them guilty for not living up to their promise.
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Implementing Scalable HA Architectures with Spring Integration
Gary Russell and David Turanski discuss creating HA architectures with Spring Integration using Cluster Controller and Strict Message Ordering, accompanied by demoes.
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Brownfield to Green
Nat Pryce presents the reengineering effort made to transform a legacy system through incremental improvement, the development process implemented, the results and some takeaway lessons learned.