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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-.
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Application Delivery in the Cloud
Alex Gosse presents the current trend in application delivery, referring to cloud computing, its adoption and DevOps tools used in such environments.
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Embracing Concurrency at Scale
Justin Sheehy discusses designing reliable distributed systems that can scale in order to deal with concurrency problems and the tradeoffs required by such systems.
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Pushing The Limits of Web Browsers … or Why Speed Matters
Lars Bak presents several language virtual machines (Self, Strongtalk, Hotspot), why they matter and how they influenced V8 and Dart. His talk is centered on performance.
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MongoDB - Born in the Cloud
Ross Lawley introduces MongoDB, explaining why it is a good solution for cloud deployment.
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Event Processing at Massive Scale
Uri Cohen discusses several types of queues with their pros and cons used in financial and trading industries for highly parallelized data processing.
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Caching, NoSQL & Grids - What the Banks Can Teach Us
John Davies shares insight into SQL, NoSQL, grid, virtualization and caching technologies from his personal experience using them in financial institutions.
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Need Some Cache? Redis in Depth
Chris Meadows introduces Redis, explaining what it is good for, what does it take to be run, and what’s under the hood through a social networking code example.
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Scalable Internet Architectures
Theo Schlossnagle presents several architectural design principles useful for building scalable systems starting from the networking up to the application layer.
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Going for Speed: Testing Against Performance Expectations
Jay Harris offers tips on using unit testing to improve the performance of applications.
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"Big Data" and the Future of DevOps
Ram C Singh discusses using Big Data for infrastructure telemetry along with good practices and an autonomic engine to create an autonomic computing infrastructure that might prevent downtime.
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High Performance Mobile
Steve Souders discusses the importance of mobile performance, providing advice on creating more responsive mobile apps, and outlining the latest developments in analyzing mobile performance.