InfoQ Homepage Interviews
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Allen Wirfs-Brock on ECMAScript, Browsers and the Ambient Computing Era
Allen Wirfs-Brock talks about the ambient computng era and how the web and the browsers fit in this vision. He also shares his experiences from working on EcmaScript 5/6, and explains about the evolution of this spec.
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Optimizing for Big Data at Facebook
Hive co-creator Ashish Thusoo describes the Big Data challenges Facebook faced and presents solutions in 2 areas: Reduction in the data footprint and CPU utilization. Generating 300 to 400 terabytes per day, they store RC files as blocks, but store as columns within a block to get better compression. He also talks about the current Big Data ecosystem and trends for companies going forward.
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Rich Hickey on Clojure 1.4's Extensible Reader, ClojureScript
Rich Hickey explains Clojure 1.4's extensible Reader, which allows to provide custom notation for data without the problems of Reader macros. Also: ClojureScript, Clojure in Clojure, and Avout.
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Interview with ZeroTurnaround CEO Jevgeni Kabanov
Jevgeni Kabanov talks about JRebel and LiveRebel features, as well as the challanges that an Ops team encounters in terms of successful rollout.
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Patrick Debois on the State of DevOps
Patrick Debois discusses the ideas behind DevOps, popular DevOps tools like Chef and Puppet, DevOps vs NoOps, and much more.
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Rich Hickey on Datomic: Datalog, Databases, Persistent Data Structures
Rich Hickey explains the ideas behind the Datomic database: why Datalog is used as the query language, the functional programming concepts at its core, the role of time in the DB and much more.
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Operating Node.js in Production, with Bryan Cantrill
Bryan talks about the challenges of operating Node.js in real production environments and the experiences he had working with it at Joyent. He also talks about DTrace, SmartOS, V8 and compares with other platforms.
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SocketIO and Node.js, with Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch, creator of SocketIO talks about how it delivers HTML5 WebSocket functionality in a cross-browser fashion. He also talks about effective development with Node.js and JavaScript in general.
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James Grenning on Agile, from co-authoring the Manifesto, to fathering Planning Poker, to Agile for Embedded Development
James shares his experience as one of the Agile Manifesto co-authors, fathering the original Agile estimating game (which became Planning Poker) and how Agile methods fit with embedded software development. James also discusses his new book, Test Driven Development for Embedded C, while sharing some surprises, such as his recommendation that teams stop using Planning Poker.
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Howard Lewis Ship on Tapestry 5, Java and Clojure
Howard Lewis Ship discusses Tapestry 5, changes he'd like to see in Java, Clojure, and Java/Clojure interoperability.
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Alan Shalloway on Scaling Agile With Lean and Kanban
Alan Shalloway discusses the challenges associated with transitioning companies to Lean and Agile methods on an enterprise scale. The interview discusses how Lean and Kanban can be used to encourage encourage incremental change and ongoing improvement, the cultural factors that can hamper Agile adoption, and why practices that benefit teams can actually harm the organization as a whole.
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Mobile HTML5 Design and Development, with David Kaneda
David talks about the unique challenges facing developers building mobile HTML5 apps, especially on WebKit. He also outlines the recent developments on this field and how they empower a whole new genre of applications.
