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REST: A Pragmatic Introduction to the Web's Architecture
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov introduces the key principles of REST, explaining the differences to other distributed systems architectures and highlighting its benefits.
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Rockstar Memcaching
In this presentation from RubyFringe, Tobias Lütke talks about memcached, the widely used caching solution. Tobias explains how to use it and gives some practical tips on what not to do.
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Real-Time Java for Latency Critical Banking Applications
Bertrand Delsart discusses real-time (RT) computing requirements in banking, RT Java history, priority semantics, RT APIs, RT Garbage Collection, soft vs. hard RT, and benefits of RT Java.
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Measuring Agile in the Enterprise: 5 Success Factors for Large-Scale Agile Adoption
Michael Mah analyzes the development process in 5 companies: 2 Agile (one of them BMC) and 3 classic. He presents the factors which contributed to the success of BMC's Agile adoption.
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Architectures of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems
Can a system that is so large it cannot be comprehended be "designed" in a conventional sense? The foundations of computing are about to change. In this talk, Richard P. Gabriel explores why and how.
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Jinesh Varia About Amazon Alexa Web Service's Architecture
Jinesh Varia talks about the architecture of one of Amazon's web services called Alexa. Jinesh explains how Amazon has reached scalability, performance and reduced costs for the Alexa service.
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The Top 10 Ways to Botch Enterprise Java Application Scalability and Reliability
Purdy discusses Java scaling, performance vs scaling, rewriting frameworks, databases, bottlenecks, abstractions, disaster recovery, one-size-fits-all architecture, big JVM heaps and network failures.
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Managing a high performance rails app without tearing your hair out
James Cox shows how to keep a Rails site's performance high. Tips include how to serve up pages faster, caching, hosting companies, and when to use SQL instead of ActiveRecord.
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Leveraging the Web for Services at Yahoo!
In this talk, recorded at QCon London, Mark Nottingham explains how Yahoo! leverages Web technologies to create a high-performance architecture for integrating multiple Yahoo! properties.
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Cluster Your JVM to SIMPLIFY application architecture
Ari Zilka introduces Open Terracotta, an open source JVM-level clustering solution that can transparently cluster POJOs & Spring beans.
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Maintaining Java Apps in Production Environments
Alexandre Rafalovitch overviews the tools and techniques that help with resolving problems that arise in production environments including common problems and rapid root cause determination methods.
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Distributed Caching Essential Lessons
Cameron Purdy shows how to improve performance via caching architectures to reduce database load & clustered caching to provide transparent fail-over.
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