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Innovation in the Enterprise: The Intrapreneurs behind the Scene
Debbie Madden discusses the types of attributes intrapreneurs have in common, how one can identify an intrapreneur, and what can be done to impact technical innovation from a human perspective?
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Orchestrating Tasks from the Cloud with Groovy and AWS SWF
Clay McCoy discusses using Groovy’s metaprogramming capabilities and AWS SWF to deal with unreliable remote services, parallelization, scheduling critical timers, and server failures.
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Asgard, the Grails App that Deploys Netflix to the Cloud
Joe Sondow presents how Netflix uses Asgard to deploy code updates and manage resources in the Amazon cloud.
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Taking the Long View: Code Generation and Software Maintenance
The panelists discuss if code generation techniques help or hinder long-term software maintenance, and how such techniques can be integrated in the maintenance process.
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The Free Lunch Is Over, Again
Andy Gross discusses the challenges introduced by distributed systems and the need for developing new skills and tools for dealing with them.
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Building Java HTML5/WebSocket Applications with JSR 356
Reza Rahman examines the efforts under way with JSR 356 to support WebSocket from its base-level integration in the Java Servlet and Java EE containers to a new API and toolset included in Java.
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History of MonoGame
Dominique Louis covers the history of MonoGame from its roots in XNA and how the team ported it to 8 platforms. He demoes taking a simple 3D XNA sample from Windows to Android and Windows Phone 8.
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Making the Internet a Better Place: Scaling AppNexus
Mike Nolet shares lessons learned scaling AppNexus and architectural details of their system processing 30TB/day: Hadoop, DNS built in GSLB and Keepalived, and real-time data streaming built in C.
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Understanding Organizational Effectiveness
Torbjörn Gyllebring discusses the importance of organizational and personal mindset, and introduces the Rightshifting model which is meant to bring organizational effectiveness.
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Purely Functional I/O
Runar Bjarnason explains how to approach I/O from a purely functional perspective, exploring the space of existing solutions, their benefits, and drawbacks.
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VMFest: Wrapping VirtualBox to Speedup Dev and Test Since 2010
Antoni Batchelli introduces VMFest, a PalletOps project used to turn VirtualBox into a lightweight cloud provider, good for developing cloud automation.
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Keynote: Jeff Lawson on Software Development
Jeff Lawson shares some of the lessons learned in his career and discusses the current trends in software and challenges developers have to face.