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A Discussion of Basic vs. Applied Research in the Software Domain and the Creation of Erlang
Bjarne Däcker recounts the story of CSLab at Ericsson, the birthplace or Erlang, how it started, some of the projects leading to Erlang, and its eventual success inside Ericsson as Erlang/OTP.
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Panel: Modular Java
Alex Blewitt, Kevin Seal and Alex Buckley answer Java modularity-related questions: when is modularity needed, how to address it, and what are the improvements in OSGi-based development.
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Domain Event-Driven Architecture
Stefan Norberg introduces Domain Event-Driven Architecture, how it helps SOA, and how it has been used by Unibet to make its architecture less coupled, resulting in better performance and scalability.
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Deploying Java Applications on Amazon EC2
Chris Richardson on deploying Apache/Tomcat/MySQL apps on Amazon EC2, what it takes to deploy all servers, making a case for PaaS which does not require an administration effort.
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Introduction to Bespin - Mozilla's Web Based Code Editor
Joe Walker explains Bespin, Mozilla’s open source web-based code editor, its architecture and chosen implementation solution, detailing some of its features like collaboration and version control.
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Now What?
Dylan Schiemann presents the current status of web development engulfed in lots of frameworks, languages, and browsers, advising on choosing the right technologies to secure the future of a web app.
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Neo4j: NOSQL and the Benefits of Graph Databases
Emil Eifrem overviews the trends leading to NOSQL, and four emerging NOSQL solutions. He also explains the internals of a graph database and an example of using Neo4j – a graph DB - in production.
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Groovy: Best Practices Developed From Distributed Polyglot Programming
Jonathan Felch discusses Groovy, its major features, using it in a financial project, the benefit of using dynamic and meta-programming features together, ending with what is not so great in Groovy.
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Social Networks: Getting Distributed Web Services Done with NoSQL
Lars George and Fabrizio Schmidt present Germany’s largest social networks, Schuelervz, Studivz and Meinvz, the initial architecture, why it didn’t work and how they solved it with a NoSQL solution.
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Spring: Paving The Way for Continuous Innovation
Jeremy Grelle discusses Spring 3 -Themes, Generics, Annotated Factory Methods, Meta-Annotations, SpEL, MVC, Rest Template- and quickly reviews Spring Integration, Blaze and Roo followed by a Roo demo.
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The Present and Future of Web App Design
Torrey Rice presents relevant milestones in the evolution of the web from a UX perspective and tries to foresee the future of web development and what it will mean for developers and casual people.
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Project Voldemort at Gilt Groupe: When Failure Isn't an Option
Geir Magnusson explains why Gilt Groupe is using Project Voldemort to scale out their e-commerce transactional system, what are the benefits and what is the current architecture after ditching SQL.