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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.
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The Mapping Dilemma
David Nolen critiques the tools, languages and methodologies used today from the perspective of solving the “mapping dilemma”, introducing match, a pattern matching library for Clojure.
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Distributed Systems: What Nobody Told You
Shaneal Manek tells the story of how things can go wrong with a distributed system which turned into a success after incorporating appropriate tools for monitoring, analytics, logging, security.
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Architects? We Don't Need No Stinkin’ Architects!
Michael Stiefel attempts to clear up some misunderstandings regarding the role played by the software architect.
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Messaging for Modern Applications
Tom McCuch discusses the current trends in modern applications, how they can use messaging, how Spring Integration provides a messaging DSL, and the architecture of AMQP and RabbitMQ.
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Understanding Java Garbage Collection and What You Can Do about It
Gil Tene explains the workings of a garbage collector: terminology, metrics, fundamentals, key mechanisms, classification of current GCs, the “Application Memory Wall” problem, and details Azul C4 GC.
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Case Study: Riak on Drugs (and the Other Way Around)
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses a MySQL project that was moved to Riak for high availability, scalability and to run off multiple data centers, sharing the experiences, pitfalls and lessons learned.
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