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Can the Kanban Method Avoid Becoming another Management Fad?
Benjamin Mitchell believes that Kanban risks to become a fad if it does not cover gaps related to experiencing embarrassment and threat, proposing a solution based on the double-loop learning model.
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HBase @ Facebook
Kannan Muthukkaruppan overviews HBase, explaining what Facebook Messages is and why they chose HBase to implement it, their contribution to HBase, and what they plan to use it for in the future.
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Acceleo: And You Thought You Knew Template-based Generators?
Stéphane Bégaudeau discusses Acceleo, an open source code generator based on EMF and MOFM2T, presenting its basic concepts, how it was created, how it can be improved, deployed, and used.
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Event Aggregator: Solving the Problem of Event Coupling
Donald Belcham presents the Event Aggregator pattern and the event problems it solves: tight coupling, refactoring difficulty, object chaining, memory leak, showing how to build one.
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The Beginner’s Mind
Patrick Kua talks on the need to preserve an open mind and learning attitude while being on the craftsmanship journey from beginner to expert.
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Using Hypermedia Services for Systems Integration
Tim Ewald explains why hypermedia is good for system integration through services –providing support for evolution, service request routing, and application recovery-, and how to build such services.
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Webmachine: a Practical Executable Model of HTTP
Justin Sheehy details Webmachine, a RESTful toolkit for writing well-behaved HTTP applications, helping developers to deal with the complexities of an HTTP-based application.
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Nokia: Lessons Learnt Migrating a Very Large and Highly Relational Database into a "Classic" NoSQL
Enda Farrell discusses how they ported Nokia’s places registry to NoSQL, the reasons, the complexity involved and the lessons learned along the way in terms of people, tools and data.
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Object Oriented JavaScript
Sara Chipps discusses using OOP with JavaScript, and polymorphism, encapsulation, inheritance, constructors, and helper functions with JQuery.
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Let It Crash ... Except When You Shouldn't
Steve Vinoski explains how to avoid some of the Erlang errors that can bring down a system starting from the premise that not all the crashes are welcome as the “Let It Crash” philosophy might suggest
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When the Pressure Is Really On: A “Rough and Ready” Application of Lean and Kanban at the BBC
Katherine Kirk presents a case study of a small team which decided to use Lean and Kanban to rapidly iterate over the development of the BBC iPlayer.
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Complexity vs. Lean: The Big Showdown
Jurgen Appelo talks about Lean principles and Kanban practices in the context of the influence complexity theory and systems thinking have had on Lean.