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Visualization Driven Development
Jason Gilman demonstrates creating visualizations with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, D3, then connect them to a code.
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Graph Computing at Scale
Matthias Broecheler discusses graph computing, introducing the Aurelius graph cluster enabling graph computing at scale by building on distributed systems like Cassandra, HBase, and Hadoop.
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Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize Power
Chuck Moore discusses coding techniques for power savings: tight coding to minimize the number of instructions executed, reducing instruction fetches, transistor switching, and duty cycle.
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Growing from the Few to the Many: Scaling the Operations Organization at Facebook
Pedro Canahuati describes how Facebook's operations maintains their infrastructure, including challenges faced and lessons learned: prioritizing calls, managing technical debt, incident management.
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Fast and Dynamic
Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert discusses making dynamic languages faster providing various examples of optimizations: SmallTalk, LISP machine, Google V8 and others.
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Why Ruby Isn't Slow
Alex Gaynor explains how he solved the usual Ruby VM speed problems with Topaz, a high performance VM built on the same technologies that power PyPy.
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Visual Management: Leading with What You Can See
Craig Smith, Renee Troughton discuss improving visual management: different types of story walls, ways to visualize the product backlog, the important of queue columns and WIP limitation, etc.
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The Magic Behind Enterprise Apps: How to Expose Reliable, Scalable and Secure Enterprise APIs?
Blake Dournaee covers the often forgotten back-end architecture for mobile apps which should expose cross-platform APIs to mitigate some of the effects of mobile O/S fragmentation.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tuning
Keith Adams shares HHVM insights showing how a system can become very performant if it is well tuned.
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Grails SOA: Building Distributed Scalable Services with Grails and RabbitMQ
Steve Pember discusses creating Grails applications integrating message broker technologies, especially RabbitMQ, and applying SOA principles.
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Design, Composition, and Performance
This talk will explore the nature of design and composition and how it impacts our approach to software development practice and tools.
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Partitions for Everyone!
Kyle Kingsbury discusses some of the limitations found in distributed systems and the way some of them behave under partitioning.
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