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Rewriting GitHub Pages with Riak and Webmachine

Jesse Newland discusses how GitHub pages were re-written with Erlang, Riak and Webmachine in order to improve their performance.

Jesse Newland
on Dec 18, 2012

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28:30
Questions not Stories

Adrian Howard introduces a Lean Startup practice that could be complementary to stories: making hypothesis and creating experiments meant to validate or invalidate those hypothesis.

Adrian Howard
on Dec 17, 2012

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01:03:37
Architecting a RESTful Cloud - The Key to Elasticity

Jason Bloomberg explains the architectural requirements for Cloud-based applications and how REST can be used to achieve elasticity in the cloud.

Jason Bloomberg
on Dec 17, 2012

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37:31
Petabyte Scale Data at Facebook

Dhruba Borthakur discusses the different types of data used by Facebook and how they are stored, including graph data, semi-OLTP data, immutable data for pictures, and Hadoop/Hive for analytics.

Dhruba Borthakur
on Dec 17, 2012

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49:37
The “Waste”berg: Traditional Project Resourcing Methods

Stacia Viscardi outlines the weaknesses of traditional resourcing methods and their illusion of efficiency, presenting a way for transitioning to a leaner and more innovative approach.

Stacia Viscardi
on Dec 14, 2012

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41:31
The Open API Economy: What Is It and How Do I Capitalize On It?

Laura Olson presents the Web API market landscape, the business of creating and selling such APIs and the technology supporting this business.

Laura Olson
on Dec 14, 2012

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33:03
Computer Architecture of the 1960’s

Carlton Mills reviews Algol 60, PL/360, BLISS, Algol W, PL/1, C and C++, considering that rediscovering Algol could solve many of today’s Internet virus attacks and common programming errors.

Carlton Mills
on Dec 14, 2012

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38:47
Real Time Bidding: Where Erlang Blooms

Fred Hebert discusses using Erlang for a real-time bidding system, providing some details of its design and architecture, along with lessons learned while implementing it.

Fred Hebert
on Dec 14, 2012

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42:49
The Power of Cultural Storytelling

Michael Margolis discusses how the outsider can play a positive role in the process of the team’s cultural change by sharing his own story, his life experience.

Michael Margolis
on Dec 13, 2012

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24:27
Keynote: Real Software Engineering

Glenn Vanderburg sustains the need for redefining software engineering as the science and art of designing and making systems that can readily adapt to the situations to which they may be subjected.

Glenn Vanderburg
on Dec 13, 2012

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53:59
Building Social Apps for All Mobile Platforms

James Pearce discusses the current trends in social applications and some of the challenges and solutions in creating HTML5 applications for mobile devices.

James Pearce
on Dec 13, 2012

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53:40
Better Product Definition with Lean UX and Design Thinking

Jeff Gothelf explains how to create better product definitions with Design Thinking and Lean UX.

Jeff Gothelf
on Dec 13, 2012

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44:23