InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Efficient Data Storage for Analytics with Parquet 2.0
Julien Le Dem discusses the advantages of a columnar data layout, specifically the features and design choices Apache Parquet uses to achieve goals of interoperability, space and query efficiency.
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Stuff I Learned about Performance
Mike Barker shares lessons learned at LMAX Exchange: starting from a clean domain model is imperative and understanding the trade-offs between performance and safety/generality/functionality.
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GORM Inside and Out
Jeff Scott Brown introduces GORM, a super powerful ORM tool that makes ORM simple by leveraging the flexibility and expressiveness of a dynamic language like Groovy.
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Advanced Groovy Tips and Tricks
Ken Kousen examines features of Groovy that can make life easier when going beyond the initial adoption stage.
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Distributed Platform Development with Groovy
Dan Woods discusses the approach to developing a scalable enterprise architecture, and demonstrates implementations based on the variety of technologies available from the Groovy ecosystem.
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Functional Programming on the Front-end with Facebook React
Dustin Getz,Daniel Miladinov demonstrate using Facebook React to build a CRUD editor, highlighting React's application of functional programming and immutability to manage complex application state.
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Evolving a Process for Product Development from X to Xban
Andy Carmichael shares the experiences of a team new to Scrum adopting a customized Kanban process that would allow changes that were kept only if they were confident they resulted in improvements.
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Two Sides of a Story
Brindusa Axon, David Evans debate the pros and cons of using stories and discuss practices and techniques for improving them.
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Programming and Testing a Distributed Database
Reid Draper shows how real world distributed database work, communicate and are tested, trading RPC for messaging, unit-tests for QuickCheck, and micro-benchmarks for multi-week stress tests.
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Creating Shared Value through Design
Fabio Sergio provides examples showing how design can result in solutions addressing system-level problems affecting people living in resource-challenged areas of the world.
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Using a Graph Database for JVM Heap Analysis
James Richardson, Nat Pryce discuss some of the challenges faced using Neo4J for interactive analysis of large data imports (80K nodes, 150k relationships) and how they overcame them.