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Service Architectures at Scale: Lessons from Google and eBay
Randy Shoup discusses modern service architectures at scale, using specific examples from both Google and eBay. He covers some interesting lessons learned in building and operating these sites.
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Scaling Uber's Real-time Market Platform
Matt Ranney explains the Uber architecture overall, with a focus on the dispatch systems, the geospatial index, handling failure, and dealing with the distributed traveling salesman problem.
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Size Matters! Product Management from LittleCo to BigDeal
Lisa Long talks about working with teams ranging from two people in an art gallery to three thousand spread across twelve time zones.
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Typesafe Scala, Typelevel Scala – What’s Going On, Anyway?
The panelists discuss the Scala compiler fork (typelevel.org): Is this a positive and natural outgrowth of a growing language or will this development cause irreparable rifts in the Scala community?
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The End Of General Purpose Languages: Rubinius 3.0 And The Next 10 Million Programs
Brian Shirai proposes using different interoperable languages throughout the life of a product, how to build reliable systems from less reliable components, along with examples from Rubinius 3.0.
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Financial Modeling with Apache Spark: Calculating Value at Risk
Sandy Ryza aims to give a feel for what it is like to approach financial modeling with modern big data tools, using the Monte Carlo method for a a basic VaR calculation with Spark.
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Microservices and the Art of Taming the Dependency Hell Monster
Michael Bryzek presents lessons learned building an expansive microservice architecture at Gilt - an organization with 1500 git repositories and over 400 individual applications.
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How Did We End up Here?
Trisha Gee and Todd Montgomery attack the technology industry’s sacred cows by exposing the motivations that hide behind them.
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Overcoming Resistance to Change
Rachel Davies tells stories of successful changes that she has introduced with XP product development teams at Unruly, sharing tips for overcoming resistance and adopting new working practices.
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From Coach to Owner. What I Learned about Agile from the Other Side
Amir Barylko shares from his experience being the owner of a new product, how to reach goals, how to fight the fear of not making it in time, and how to make sure Agile works for you.
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Microservices - Are Your Frameworks Ready?
Alex Heusingfeld, Martin Eigenbrodt discuss some of the challenges creating microservices on JVM stacks with examples using Dropwizard, Spring Cloud and Play2 Scala.
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Oh Hai HiDPI! Blasting Through the 96 dpi Barrier with Eclipse
Tony McCrary discusses HiDPI's impact on Eclipse software development, how to get the best performance on HiDPI devices, and what can be done to support HiDPI in the Eclipse platform and SWT.