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Portfolio Kanban - Seeing the Bigger Picture
Sandy Mamoli explains how Trade Me is using Portfolio Kanban to reduce WIP by prioritizing projects, focusing on the important ones rather than urgent ones.
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Apache Spark Plus Many Other Frameworks: How Spark Fits into the Big Data Landscape
Paco Nathan keynotes on how Spark fits into the big data landscape, describing what other systems work with Spark, and explaining why Spark is needed in the future.
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Getting Real with the MapR Platform
Jim Scott keynotes on the history of Hadoop, the difficulties that this technology has gone through, exploring the reasons why enterprises need to evaluate their targets and prepare for the future.
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Functional Principles for Object-Oriented Developers
Jessica Kerr explains through Java and C# code samples six principles of the functional programming style.
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Continuous Deployment the Octopus Way
Jimmy Bogard takes a look at how Octopus enables continuous delivery and what it offers over standard tooling.
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Huh? Nah! Mmm? Ahh! : Changing Organizations by Focusing on People
Matt Ballantine shares the approaches that have helped him to successfully deliver change in organizations by focusing on emotional reactions, stages of learning, old vs. new, peers influence.
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The Idea Stack: Finding Your Product Vision
Josh Wexler takes participants through the Idea Stack exercises and use case studies, illustrating how to build a vision for a product before developing it.
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The Functional Programming Concepts in Facebook's Mobile Apps
Adam Ernst shows how his team at Facebook encountered spiraling complexities and declining reliability and decided to make the shift to functional, in the data model and the view layer of News Feed.
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TestOps: Continuous Integration when Infrastructure is the Product
Barry Jaspan describes how they test Acquia Cloud, a large PaaS and DevOps project, and what they have learned over several years of developing those tests.
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The Business Value of IT in Today's Digital World
Joe Weinman, the author of Cloudonomics, argues that IT is the weapon of choice in today's global marketplace and increasingly digital world.
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Java 8 Language Capabilities. What's in It for You?
Venkat Subramaniam dives into the language features of Java 8, taking a look at some of their nuances, and looking at ways to put them to good use.
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Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms
The session covers various GC tuning techniques, in particular focusing on tuning large scale JVM deployments and showing how to optimally size a platform for enhanced memory consumption.