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Designing Composite Services Using BPMN 2.0 as a Visual Programming Language
Lloyd Dugan discusses using the BPMN visual programming language for designing composite services and service orchestration.
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Building High Performing Agile Teams
Naveed Khawaja and Carl Bruiners introduce various Agile principles and practices and conduct a hands-on practice session meant to explain how to build a performing team.
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Big Data Problems in Monitoring at eBay
Bhaven Avalani and Yuri Finklestein discuss 4 aspects encountered at eBay when dealing with monitoring data: reduction of data entropy, robust data distribution, metric extraction, efficient storage.
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Rewriting GitHub Pages with Riak and Webmachine
Jesse Newland discusses how GitHub pages were re-written with Erlang, Riak and Webmachine in order to improve their performance.
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Accelerating the Web: How GPUs Make Browsers Fast
Jarred Nicholls explains how browsers leverage the GPU to speed up complex web pages by primitive drawing, composing layers and using tiles backing stores.
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Go: Code that Grows with Grace
Andrew Gerrand introduces Go, demoing some of its main features through examples: a concurrent echo server, chat, channels, error handling, etc.
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Facebook News Feed: Social Data at Scale
Serkan Piantino discusses news feeds at Facebook: the basics, infrastructure used, how feed data is stored, and Centrifuge – a storage solution.
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Scaling Software with Akka
Jonas Bonér explains solving scalability issues, including adaptive automatic load-balancing, cluster rebalancing, replication and partitioning, with Akka 2.
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Erlang Scales … Do You?
Erik Happi Stenman discusses 4 scalability basic requirements: the right business model, the right technology, the right people, and the right (amount of) process.
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ClojureScript - Better Semantics at Low Low Prices!
David Nolen unveils optimization techniques behind ClojureScript: code size, expression-oriented semantics, numerics, operations on JS primitive types, persistent data structures, etc.
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Futures and Promises: Lessons in Concurrency Learned at Tumblr
Blake Matheny discusses the current status of Tumblr, its evolution and lessons learned along the way, 3 types of concurrency -Macro, Mecro and Micro-, and Motherboy –a dashboard system-.