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Scaling Stack Overflow: Keeping it Vertical by Obsessing Over Performance
David Fullerton shares some of the things the Stack Exchange tech team have learned along the way while scaling one of the top sites in the world primarily through vertical scaling.
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A Pragmatic Introduction to Multicore Synchronization
Samy Bahra discusses high performance multicore synchronization, scalability bottlenecks in multicore systems and memory models, and scalable locking and lock-less synchronization.
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Where Next? Building a Career as a Technologist
Peter Bell discusses how to identify the ideal job, building a personal brand, balancing management and coding, freelance vs. full time and startup vs enterprise opportunities.
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Concurrency Options on the JVM
Jessica Kerr covers some of the concurrency tools existing in JVM languages including ExecutorService, Futures, Akka actors, and core.async coroutines, providing advice on writing deadlock-free code.
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Linux Kernel Hacking: A Crash Course
Georgi Knox conducts a hands on session overviewing the history of Linux, what the kernel is, what system calls are, how to write modules, how to build a kernel, etc.
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Modern Apps & Microservices
Bob Familiar introduces microservices, discussing their architecture and outlining cloud deployment scenarios, exemplified by a live demo on Microsoft Azure.
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Unleashing the Java 8 Tooling in Eclipse
Noopur Gupta shows how to get started with Java 8 in Eclipse, demonstrating how the new Java 8 constructs blend with the existing functionality in Eclipse.
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Maximizing Throughput on Multicore Systems
Irina Guberman discusses maximizing throughput on multicore systems with Erlang and the Jobs framework by Ulf Wiger.
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Data Driven Product Development
Lyndon Maher, Paul McManus discuss data driven development, how to collect data, getting feedback, tools to use, and how to integrate a data-driven mentality into the team.
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Mobile-first Architectures
Alexander Stigsen explores the challenges & opportunities in developing for the new mobile cloud, where most of the processing power is not in a datacenter but in the pockets of users.
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Here Be Dragons: Security Maps of the Container New World
Josh Bregman explores some of the security challenges created by both the development workflow and application runtime, why SecDevOps 1.0 is insufficient, and how SecDevOps 2.0 can help.
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Ground-up Introduction to In-memory Data
Viktor Gamov covers In-Memory technology, distributed data topologies, making in-memory reliable, scalable and durable, when to use NoSQL, and techniques for Big In-Memory Data.