InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Partial Failures in a Microservices Jungle: Survival Tips from Comcast
Jon Moore goes over some strategies for surviving in a jungle of partial failures. Each survival tip is explained through a concrete example, or "adventure story", from Comcast’s TV experience.
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Managing Complexity, Functionally
Ryan Trinkle explores functional techniques for managing complexity, examines what makes them successful in pure functional programming, and proposes ways that they can be applied in any context.
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Erlang in the Cloud: The Talko Service Architecture
Ransom Richardson presents the Talko service architecture, its implementation and operation in the cloud, why they are using Erlang for it and key things learned along the way.
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REST for an Hour
Lyndsey Padget introduces the basic principles of RESTful APIs, terminology, design patterns, data, pitfalls, best practices, and others.
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Spectrum Testing - Unit to Browser before Deploy
In this talk Alan Blount gives a quick overview of the main categories of testing and how they may apply to various web application projects.
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C# Inception: Using Roslyn and C# Code to Analyze C# Code
Project Roslyn is Microsoft's next generation .Net compiler. Its API allows you to dig into the details of any C# or VB Code.
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How to Steal Your Competitors' Talent
Matt Buckland discusses some of the cultures he has encountered in his work experience, the success stories and the failures, outlining what makes a great organizational culture.
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Open Source and Haiti: A Story of Care
Mário Areias presents the challenges in delivering care in Haiti, dealing with legacy code and infrastructure limitations.
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Five Elements of Superior Developer Portals
Hadi Michael explores the elements commonly found on developer portals, and identifies those that consistently contribute to superior developer experiences.
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Exercises in Programming Style
Crista Lopes demos writing the same program using multiple styles, showcasing the richness of human computational thought and the need to avoid being stuck with one or two styles for life.
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API Virtualization – Mocking on Steroids
Ole Lensmar takes a look at a number of common API virtualization use cases - design-first development, sandboxing and load testing - to see how and when virtual APIs can help and when they can’t.
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From Hackathon to React Native @ Facebook
Christopher Chedeau walks through the challenges, both technical and people management related, involved in bringing the React JavaScript UI library to iOS.