InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Easier, Better, Faster, Safer Deployment with Docker and Immutable Containers
Jerome Petazzoni explains in detail the advantages of immutable servers, then how to implement them with containers in general, and Docker in particular.
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Scaling Stack Overflow: Keeping it Vertical by Obsessing Over Performance
David Fullerton shares some of the things the Stack Exchange tech team have learned along the way while scaling one of the top sites in the world primarily through vertical scaling.
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A Pragmatic Introduction to Multicore Synchronization
Samy Bahra discusses high performance multicore synchronization, scalability bottlenecks in multicore systems and memory models, and scalable locking and lock-less synchronization.
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Where Next? Building a Career as a Technologist
Peter Bell discusses how to identify the ideal job, building a personal brand, balancing management and coding, freelance vs. full time and startup vs enterprise opportunities.
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Concurrency Options on the JVM
Jessica Kerr covers some of the concurrency tools existing in JVM languages including ExecutorService, Futures, Akka actors, and core.async coroutines, providing advice on writing deadlock-free code.
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Linux Kernel Hacking: A Crash Course
Georgi Knox conducts a hands on session overviewing the history of Linux, what the kernel is, what system calls are, how to write modules, how to build a kernel, etc.
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Modern Apps & Microservices
Bob Familiar introduces microservices, discussing their architecture and outlining cloud deployment scenarios, exemplified by a live demo on Microsoft Azure.
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Unleashing the Java 8 Tooling in Eclipse
Noopur Gupta shows how to get started with Java 8 in Eclipse, demonstrating how the new Java 8 constructs blend with the existing functionality in Eclipse.
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The Funny Thing About Innovation
Tim Reid, an innovation consultant and a comedy writer, shares the tricks of the trade that help comedy professionals stay fresh and original and shows how all can become as creative as comedians.
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Maximizing Throughput on Multicore Systems
Irina Guberman discusses maximizing throughput on multicore systems with Erlang and the Jobs framework by Ulf Wiger.
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Data Driven Product Development
Lyndon Maher, Paul McManus discuss data driven development, how to collect data, getting feedback, tools to use, and how to integrate a data-driven mentality into the team.
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Modeling Complex Game Economy with Neo4j
Yan Cui shares lessons learned using Neo4j to model the in-game economy of the "Here Be Monsters" game and automate the balancing process.