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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.
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Scala Async: A New Way to Simplify Asynchronous Code (Make the Compiler Do It!)
Philipp Haller explains how to do asynchronous programming in Scala with Scala Async, Futures and Promises.
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RxJava in Clojure
Dave Ray explains using RxJava in Clojure for building non-blocking "Observable APIs" and efficiently compose asynchronous flows together using functional reactive operators.
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CLJ Mook: a Lightweight HTTP Testing Tool
Craig Brozefsky introduces clj-mook which provides a session abstraction for client interactions with a web application based on clj-http, a handful of threading macros, JSoup, and a couple of maps.
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How to Sneak Clojure Into Your Rails Shop
Joshua Ballanco introduces Immutant, Immutant Overlay, HornetQ and OpenShift to Ruby and Rails developers.
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10 Tips when Porting to Windows Phone
Matt Lacey shares 10 tips for mobile developers porting their applications to Windows Phone.
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First, Let's Kill All the Product Owners
Tim Berglund shares the vision of an organization without product managers with its implications and boundaries, provoking the listener to take a bold step into that direction.
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Implementing a DSL for Social Modeling: an Embedded Approach Using Scala
Juan Manuel and Jesús López González share their experience gathered over five years designing and implementing Speech, a DSL for programming social processes.
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Apache Drill - Interactive Query and Analysis at Scale
Michael Hausenblas introduces Apache Drill, a distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets, including its architecture and typical use cases.
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The Functional Database
Rich Hickey discusses how a functional database can impact the programming model, using Datomic as an example, but the principles apply to other systems using an immutable database.
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The Unavoidable Big Bang
Gareth Rushgrove provides reasons for avoiding a big bang release and what to do to make it work in case that’s the only option.