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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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SpringOne 2GX Keynote: Next Generation Applications
Ben Alex along with a SpringSource team present the future of mobile applications, authorization, data, and application architecture as seen by VMware.
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SpringOne 2GX Keynote: Spring, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Adrian Colyer presents along with a Spring team the key principles guiding SpringSource evolution over time, what has happened from the previous SpringOne event, and where SpringSource is headed to.
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Heresies and Dogmas in Software Development
Dean Wampler discusses the merits of several controversial issues: Goto, Design before Code, Design Patterns, Corba vs. REST, Object Middleware and ORMs, and Identifiers with Spaces.
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Distributed STM - A New Programming Model for the Cloud
Cyprien Noel discusses distributed transactional memories along with ObjectFabric, a Java server based on eXtensible Software Transactional Memory, an OS library for concurrent and distributed apps.
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Language Panel
Gerald Sussman, Rich Hickey, Allen Wirfs-Brock, Joe Pamer, Andrei Alexandrescu, and Jeremy Ashkenas, moderated by Dean Wampler answer questions from the audience on programming languages.
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Product Engineering
Mike Lee discusses the many facets of product engineering: planning, implementing, testing, team, funding, marketing, customers, platform, market, and shipping, all from a non-technical perspective.
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Running a Startup on Haskell
Bryan O'Sullivan presents a case study of a small startup that chose Haskell for its server-side code, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of using Haskell to quickly create a solid solution.
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Easy as Pie? - Teaching Code Literacy
Sarah Allen talks on how to introduce children to the basics of programming, presenting a new related language called “Pie” along with lessons learned from creating a DSL in Ruby.
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We Really Don't Know How To Compute!
Gerald Jay Sussman compares our computational skills with the genome, concluding that we are way behind in creating complex systems such as living organisms, and proposing a few areas of improvement.
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Modeling the User Interface
Pedro J. Molina discusses the concepts behind UI and challenges met trying to model user interfaces, and how code generation can be used to create UIs.