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3 SHORT TALKS: What Do Techies Know about Recruitment?
The speakers tell stories on recruiting technical people: what they do, what drives their decisions, and why they feel it's important to leave recruitment completely in the hands of the HR department.
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NoHR Hiring
Martijn Verburg and Zoe Slattery explain how to make the best use of community resources to find the ideal employee as well as sharing some horror stories.
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Hire Education - Making Interviews Rock
Trisha Gee and Dan North explain how to effectively assess job candidates, treating them fairly and evenhandedly, gathering evidence to support a hiring, or passing, decision.
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Functional Infrastructures: It's All Fn until You Hit Production
Antoni Batchelli discusses building an automated infrastructure in Clojure.
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HTTP Performance Is a Solved Problem
Poul-Henning Kamp details some of the current HTTP performance issues that wait to be solved in the future.
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Design, Composition and Performance
Rich Hickey explores the nature of design and composition and how it impacts the software development practice and tools.
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Functional Composition
Chris Ford shows how to make music starting with the basic building block of sound, the sine wave, and gradually accumulating abstractions culminating in a canon by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Macros: Why, When, and How
Gary Fredericks discusses macros, what they are, how to write good ones, when to use them and when to avoid using them.
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Lean Engineering: Applying Lean Startup Principles at Paypal
Bill Scott details how they introduced Lean into their enterprise technology stack at Paypal.
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Lean'ing at Crowdtap
Kareem Kouddous presents using SOA, JavaScript MVC, continuous deployment and Kanban for the development of 12 applications.
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Building with Lean: A Cross-Functional Pairing Approach
Jono Mallanyk and Ben Burton discuss cross-functional pairing to design for building products quickly and effectively, advising when to use Lean, and tools and techniques they found useful.
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How a Graph Database Allows Shutl to Deliver Even Faster
Volker Pacher explains why Shutl chose Neo4j when faced with the need of building a new API meant to support business growth, the challenges met during implementation and solutions applied.