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Writing a Technical Book
Eric Merritt, Martin Logan and Richard Carlsson share their story, the challenges and lessons learned along the way as first time book authors of “Erlang and OTP in Action”.
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Does REST Need Middleware?
Bill Burke shows how to use REST to create interfaces to middleware services – messaging, transactions, workflow, security – in order to have RESTful enterprise SOA implementations.
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Functional Languages 101: What’s All the Fuss About?
Rebecca Parsons makes an basic introduction to functional languages, explaining how to think in a functional language, why is there renewed interested in them, and some nifty things about them.
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A Scalable, Peer-led Model for Building Good Habits in Large & Diverse Development Teams
Jason Gorman presents how developers can learn TDD to the point of transforming the knowledge acquired into habits by exercising a number of practices followed by peer evaluation.
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Performance Testing at the Edge
Alois Reitbauer shows how to do performance testing during development, testing, and production by starting early in the development phase, breaking the test into pieces, and testing continuously.
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Nothing New Under the Sun: Continually Rediscovering the Good Ways to Build Software
Keith Braithwaite proposes ways to integrate ideas successfully applied in software in the past but later discarded, like analysis, architecture, and modeling, into current technology and practice.
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RESTful Business Process Management
Cesare Pautasso proves that BPM can be used to compose and implement REST web services, showing the relationship between business processes and stateful resources accessed through a RESTful API.
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Fighting Layout Bugs
Michael Tamm offers solutions for automatic testing of a web application’s presentation layer through HTML and CSS validation and by detecting layout bugs using JavaScript and image processing.
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A Discussion of Basic vs. Applied Research in the Software Domain and the Creation of Erlang
Bjarne Däcker recounts the story of CSLab at Ericsson, the birthplace or Erlang, how it started, some of the projects leading to Erlang, and its eventual success inside Ericsson as Erlang/OTP.
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Test-Driven Development of Asynchronous Systems
Nat Pryce exemplifies how he dealt with flickering, false positives, slow, and messy tests appearing in asynchronous testing when trying to perform end-to-end testing.
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Product Development in the Land of the Free
Simon Baker and Gus Power point out that many projects fail due to organizational complexity, proposing ways to improve product development and business agility in order to make the customer happy.
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Avoid a Failed SOA: Business & Autonomous Components to the Rescue
Udi Dahan addresses SOA from both a technological and business perspective by introducing business and autonomous components, basic elements of a service-oriented solution for the enterprise.