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Clojure: The Art of Abstraction
Alex Miller presents some of the abstractions that make Clojure a great language: Collections, Sequence and Higher Order Functions, Multimethods, Protocols, Atoms, Macros, and others.
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Events Are Not Just for Notifications
Greg Young discusses how to use events to store data, and how testing, versioning and performance are impacted by an event-centered model.
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Design and Architecture Tools in Visual Studio 2010
David Starr presents some of the tools in Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 helpful for building an application’s architecture: Architecture Explorer, Dependency Graphs, UML Modeling, and Layer Diagrams.
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Building Solid Distributed Applications with Haskell and Riak
Bryan O'Sullivan discusses the design considerations and types usage when building distributed systems with Haskell and Riak, starting from a case study of a system using vector clocks.
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Enterprise Apps in 2011 and Beyond
Adrian Colyer discusses the current trends in cloud computing, covering especially PaaS with a reference at Cloud Foundry, and focusing on how it impacts enterprise application design and development.
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Model Driven Development Beyond Code Generation
Darius Silingas discusses Test-driven Modeling, Model-driven Requirements Management and System Documentation, and Architecture Planning & Code Review, noting that MDD is more than code generation.
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Big Data in Real Time at Twitter
Nick Kallen discusses how Twitter handles large amounts of data in real time by creating 4 data types and query patterns -tweets, timelines, social graphs, search indices-, and the DBs storing them.
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A True Conversational Web
Robert Virding discusses conversational web services and how Erlang can provide the necessary tools to write 2-way conversational applications using WebSockets.
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Building Systems with REST
Glenn Block presents how developers can build RESTful solutions using Microsoft’s technologies, especially with WCF and .NET.
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Testing for the Unexpected
Ulf Wiger discusses the importance of automated testing along with some lessons learned at Ericsson, including using randomized and extensive testing, aiming to achieve system robustness.
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Building Reliable Systems from Unreliable Components
Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz discusses creating a SOA implementation that maintains a good overall reliability in spite of using smaller and a larger number of components.
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NoSQL @ Netflix
Siddharth “Sid” Anand explains the technical details behind the move from Oracle used inside their data center to SimpleDB and S3 in the cloud, and from there to Cassandra.