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"Big Data" and the Future of DevOps
Ram C Singh discusses using Big Data for infrastructure telemetry along with good practices and an autonomic engine to create an autonomic computing infrastructure that might prevent downtime.
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Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework
Steve Vinoski introduces Erlang’s OTP Frmework, outlining some of its main features, including several behaviors – implementations of common patterns useful for concurrent fault-tolerant applications.
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Scala: Simplifying Development at guardian.co.uk
Graham Tackley shares the lessons learned running The Guardian website on Java, and why they decided to switch to Scala and how it helps them.
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Non Blocking, Composable Reactive Web Programming with Iteratees in Play 2
Sadek Drobi presents the architecture of the Play2 framework, a framework helping developers creating web applications in Java and Scala.
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Declarative Programming: Towards a Language that Fundamentally Abstracts away from Time
Wim Bast introduces Declare, a new declarative, functional OO language, demoing some of its main features.
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Keynote: The Value of Values
Rich Hickey compares value-oriented programming with place-oriented programming concluding that the time of imperative languages has passed and it is the time of functional programming.
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Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages
Philip Wadler discusses second-order quantification, from its inception in the symbolic logic of Frege through to the generic features introduced in Java 5, touching on aspects of faith and evolution.
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Erlang for C# Developers
Bryan Hunter introduces Erlang, comparing various language features with C#’s, emphasizing what it is good for and doing a demo.
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Erlang, The Road Movie
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses cloud, multi-core, integration, high availability, and imperfect software starting from discoveries made while learning Erlang.
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Programming with Values in Clojure
Alan Dipert discusses the benefits of functional programming in Clojure, suggesting using pure functions to process values and sometimes explicit procedures for needed side effects.
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Why APL Is Still Cool
Joel Hough and Morten Kromberg present some of the features that make APL interesting, along with a demo showing what it means to program in APL.
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Ozma: Extending Scala with Oz Concurrency
Peter Van Roy discusses solving concurrency issues with deterministic concurrency using Ozma, an extension of the Scala language employing the Oz deterministic dataflow concepts.