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Ken Little on Scaling Tumblr
Ken Little talks about scaling Tumblr to keep up with their blogging users: scaling the data model, sharding, their PHP frontend and the Scala backend, and much more.
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Rob Daigneau on Service Design Patterns
Rob Daigneau talks about his book "Service Design Patterns" and the various patterns described in it, SOA vs Services, how to choose between REST, RPC and Messaging, and much more.
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Mike Lee on Game Design and Gamification
Mike Lee talks about Game Design, Gamification, and much more.
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Jim Webber on Neo4J and Graph Database Use Cases
In this interview recorded at QCon NY 2012 Conference, Jim Webber from Neo Technology discusses the Graph database ecosystem, graph use cases, and tools for developing applications using Neo4j graph database.
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Rich Hickey on Datomic, Data Storage, Functional Programming and Immutability
Rich Hickey explains how immutability enables Datomic's features and facilitates programming (not just in functional languages). Also: Datomic and other NoSQL stores, Clojure Reducers and much more.
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Gil Tene on Zing, Low Latency GC, Responsiveness
Gil Tene talks about how to achieve low latency and responsiveness in Java applications despite the GC, how the GC in Azul's Zing helps, where low latency is crucial, and much more.
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Horia Dragomir on Mobile HTML5
Horia Dragomir talks about the challenges of writing HTML5 apps and games for mobile devices, the graphical APIs and problems of achieving responsive UIs, JavaScript and other languages and more.
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Serkan Piantino on Scaling Facebook
Serkan Piantino explains how Facebook has managed to scale up, what types of errors occur in an architecture that size and how to handle them, RAM vs disk, and much more.
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Eli Collins on Hadoop
Eli Collins discusses Cloudera's CDH4 release, which tasks are well suited for Hadoop, Hadoop and MapReduce vs SQL, the state of Hadoop, and much more.
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Stuart Halloway on Datomic, Clojure, Reducers
Stuart Halloway explains Datomic, programming transactional behavior with Datomic, Datalog and logic programming, programming with values, Clojure Reducers and much more.
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Graham Lee on Application Security, Sandboxing on OS X, Mobile Application Development
Graham Lee discusses how to design and write secure (mobile) applications, the concept of sandboxing in general and on OS X, Objective-C and Smalltalk, and much more.
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Max Sklar on Machine Learning at Foursquare
Max Sklar talks about machine learning at Foursquare, the use of Bayesian Statistics and other methods to build Foursquare's recommendation system and much more.