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Kanban System Design
Karl Scotland on Kanban as a way of creating a model improving a business’ capability to meet its purpose based on systems thinking, workflow, visualization, work in process, cadence, and learning.
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Building Reliable Systems from Unreliable Components
Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz discusses creating a SOA implementation that maintains a good overall reliability in spite of using smaller and a larger number of components.
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NoSQL @ Netflix
Siddharth “Sid” Anand explains the technical details behind the move from Oracle used inside their data center to SimpleDB and S3 in the cloud, and from there to Cassandra.
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Craft and Software Engineering
Glenn Vanderburg believes that software engineering and craftsmanship are not mutually exclusive, and there is synergy between them, explaining how to combine them in the software development process.
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Reverse Engineering Applications
Joe Kuemerle explains why someone would use reverse engineering, outlining some of the tools for managed .NET and Java code, along with demoing techniques.
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Visual Studio v. Eclipse: a Comparison of Automation Tooling
Ian Goodsell presents the methodology for creating Eclipse and Visual Studio-based toolkits, and introduce Visual Studio Pattern Automation Toolkit, a toolkit for toolkit developers.
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Panel: Who Says You Have to Be a Guy to Be a Geek?
Susan Potter and JP Chance address the issue of being few women in software development teams, explaining why it matters, and what can be done to improve the situation.
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The Kiev Experiment: Evolving Agile Partnerships
Simon Ogle, Alexander Kikhtenko, and Peter Thomas present a case study of a development team transitioning from a waterfall approach to 15 offshore Agile teams over a period of 5 years.
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Secure Distributed Programming on ECMAScript 5 + HTML5 Platforms
Mark S. Miller explains how to create secure applications in ECMAScript 5 and HTML5 by turning JavaScript into a distributed secure programming language.
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Complex Event Processing: DSL for High Frequency Trading
Richard Tibbetts discusses Complex Event Processing in the context of High Frequency Trading and the advantages of using high level DSLs, followed by the case study of a system built with StreamBase.
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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile
Roy Osherove discusses three maturity stages of a team and adjusting leadership accordingly, along with techniques meant to bring craftsmanship and maturity in a software development team.
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Compile-time Verification, It's Not Just for Type Safety Any More
Greg Young talks about .NET’s Contracts library, showing how to use it, what it is good for, and how it improves code quality.