InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Fast Conservative Garbage Collection
Rifat Shahriyar, Steve Blackburn, Kathryn McKinley show that conservative garbage collectors using Immix can be as performant and sometimes even faster than generational GCs.
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Not Just Layers! What Can Pipelines and Events Do for You?
Ian Cooper takes a look at two architectural patterns: pipelines for dealing with streams of data effectively, and events which provide significant advantages for loose coupling.
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Scalability Lessons from eBay, Google, and Real-time Games
Randy Shoup tells war stories from Google and eBay focusing on how to scale code, infrastructure, performance, and operations, along with hard-won lessons learned in scaling them.
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Four Things We Need to Know about Teams
Lachlan Heasman discusses the difference between groups and teams, Poole’s model of team development, the social motivational factors within teams, and the complexity leadership model for teams.
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SQL Strikes Back! Recent Trends in Data Persistence and Analysis
Dean Wampler takes a look at SQL’s resurgence and specific example technologies, including: NewSQL, Hybrid SQL, SQL abstractions on top of file-based data, SQL as a functional programming language.
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Collaborative User Research - Ways to Involve Stakeholders in User Research
Revathi Nathaniel explains the benefits of collaboration during the various stages of conducting user research (from conception to data analysis) and simple methods to involve stakeholders.
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Lean Kanban - Our Journey So Far
Thomas Lant presents how Lean Kanban was introduced into their organization, the challenges met, initial reactions and fears, the outcome.
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Capability Red: Requirements at Scale
Liz Keogh discusses breaking down requirements without going into too much detail combined with complexity estimation for easy planning, dependency management, and prioritization.
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Consistency without Consensus: CRDTs in Production at SoundCloud
Peter Bourgon provides a practical introduction to Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) and describes a production CRDT system built at SoundCloud to serve several product features.
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Following Google: Don’t Follow the Followers, Follow the Leaders
Mark Madsen explains the history of databases and data processing over the past decades and looks where the industry will go.
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Unikernels: Who, What, Where, When, Why
Adam Wick explains the promise of unikernels (single-purpose, lightweight virtual machines) and shares experiences about when unikernels are appropriate solutions and when they are not.
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The Evolution of Testing Methodology at AWS: From Status Quo to Formal Methods with TLA+
Tim Rath explains how and why Amazon incorporated more powerful testing methodologies, ultimately leading them to the use of formal methods where TLA+ has become a cornerstone to our overall strategy.
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