InfoQ Homepage Interviews
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Mike Long on Building Software for the Long Term
Mike Long explains how to build software for the long term, software maintenance, how some software survives. Also a thought experiment - how would you build software that lasts for 10,000 years?
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Yan Cui on Graph Databases for Modeling Game Economies, Actors and DSLs with F#
Yan Cui talks about the advantages of using F# to build DSLs and using the actor model. Also: why and how to use graph databases to model (game) economies.
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Natalia Chechina on Scaling Distributed Erlang with SD Erlang
Natalia Chechina explains the challenges of scaling distributed Erlang beyond a certain number of systems and how SD Erlang helps to overcome those problems.
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Barbara Fusinska on Building Offline Mobile Applications
Barbara Fusinska explains the challenges of building offline mobile applications: synchronisation, API design, data modeling, and much more.
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Dianne Marsh on Language and Frameworks Used at Netflix, the Manager's Role, and Diversity in IT
Dianne Marsh talks to Charles Humble about hiring an engineer at Netflix, organising an engineering team around speed of execution, the languages and frameworks Netflix uses, and diversity in IT.
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Jon McKay on Building Tessel Boards and What We Can Expect From Tessel Soon
The Internet of Things is right around the corner and it's very much about connected devices, sensors and gathering and leveraging data. The Tessel Board is programmable in JavaScript and makes it extremely easy to try out programming connected devices, send sensor data to the cloud or even control your elevator with a text message. And there's more to expect in the future, Jon tells us.
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Mike Long on Modern C++ and the C++ Memory Model
Mike Long explains the new memory model in C++: why it's necessary, what it does, and who needs to know about it. Also: a look at modern C++ programming.
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Jacob Fahrenkrug on Building a Secure Platform for the Smart Home
The Internet of Things is just around the corner and it will massively impact our lives. Most of the devices in our homes will become connected and collect data or react to certain events. Currently it is still uncertain, how personal data can be protected and leveraged for crowd sourcing and swarm intelligence at the same time. Jacob is sharing the ideas that his company Yetu has to clarify this
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Learning Fast at Spotify
Simon Marcus discusses the value of a learning environment in which learning from failure is valued. Simon discusses how Spotify approaches consensus within its teams and how experimentation of team make-up and tasking is not frowned upon.
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Andrea Magnorsky on F#, Property Based Testing With FsCheck
Andrea Magnorsky talks about her experience with adopting F# for .NET game development, where F# fits, property based testing with FsCheck, and much more.
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Eberhard Wolff on the Death of Java Application Servers
Eberhard Wolff explains his assertion that "Java application servers are dead". He describes application server deployment and monitoring model complexities and WAR and EAR deployment format deficits. In turn he promotes simpler and more standard compliant alternatives based on language agnostic tool stacks, while also acknowledging valid non-technical reasons that can prevent their adoption.
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Leslie Lamport on LaTeX, Paxos, Distributed Systems, TLA and TLA+
Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport talks to Charles Humble about LaTeX, Paxos, his "Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" paper, TLA and TLA+
