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Pimp My Architecture
Dan North discusses an example of rearchitecting an application without rewriting it from scratch, and explains general strategies for a holistic rearchitecture.
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Coaching Self-Organizing Teams
This tutorial presents an approach utilizing leading-edge techniques from social complexity science and team dynamics to change the dynamics of a team with the aim of optimizing their work together.
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ORM, EDM, ESQL, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities - Confused?
Eric Nelson explains what are ORM, EDM, and ESQL, what is the difference between LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities, which one should be used, accompanied by hands on demos showing how to use them.
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SpringSource and VMWare: Making Sense Of It All
Adrian Colyer and Karl Rumelhart discuss the VMWare acquisition of SpringSource, Cloud Foundry, public vs private cloud, virtualization, vSphere, Infrastructure as a Service and vSphere performance.
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Pouring Data on Troubled Markets - Quantitative Portfolio Management Technology at BGI
Eoin Woods explains how Barclays Global Investors (BGI) designed Apex to meet the challenges it faces and the Java technologies which were chosen for an architecture with variations on standard J2EE.
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Data Grid Design Patterns
Brian Oliver explains a number of data grid design patters: Command, Functor, Messaging, and Push Replication. He also mentions some traditional patterns used so far and Coherence Incubator.
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Thoughts on the Generic vs. Specific Tradeoff
Stefan Tilkov offers guidelines for the architect looking for a solution to his problem. Should it be a generic or a specific one? He compares several such solutions outlining the pros and cons.
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SpringOne/2GX 2009 Keynote
Rod Johnson covers the history of Spring, Spring 3.0, Spring Integration, Groovy, Grails, tc Server, Spring Insight, SpringSource Tool Suite, the VMWare acquisition and the Enterprise Java Cloud.
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Agile Project Metrics
The presentation shows how to project realistic completion dates based on empirical observations based on Velocity for iterative methods and on Cumulative Flow for non-iterative methods.
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Systems that Never Stop (and Erlang)
Joe Armstrong on 6 reliability laws, Isolation, Concurrency, Failure Detection, Fault Identification, Live Code Upgrade, Stable Storage, showing how they are respected in Erlang, plus some examples.
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Real-life SOA
Based on real-life cases, Michael Poulin shows how to use 7 service oriented principles to handle service behavior in the execution context and UI changes, and how to prepare for unexpected changes.
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Simplifying Java EE with Grails
Graeme Rocher introduces Groovy and its corresponding web framework, Grails, followed by a code writing demo intended to highlight the advantages of using Grails over Java EE for web applications.