InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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I Dream of Gen'ning: Protecting Your Codebase with Scalacheck's Magic
The authors discuss property based testing from the basics to advanced techniques (custom data generators, performance tests, basing data generation on samples from production data,...).
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Learning to See, Learning to Lead; The Vanguard Method
David Joyce discusses how organizations can solve their super-ordinate problems through the use of the Vanguard Method.
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Asynchronous Programming at Netflix
Husain shows the Reactive Extensions (Rx) library which allows one to treat events as collections, how Netflix uses Rx on the client and the server, allowing it to build end-to-end reactive systems.
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The Immutable Front-end in ClojureScript
Logan Linn explores the design and implications of an architecture built around immutable data structures using ClojureScript and Om, a ClojureScript interface to Facebook's React.
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Etsy Search: How We Index and Query 26 Million One-of-a-kind Items
Aaron Gardner pulls back the covers on the Etsy Search ecosystem and how they got here -- the good, the bad, and the funky.
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Groovy for System Administrators
Daniel Woods discusses Enterprise Operations which is seeing a shift in the management paradigm of infrastructure.
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Fastest Servlets in the West?
The authors demonstrate Apache Tomcat's stability under high load, describe some do's (and some don'ts!), explain how to performance test a Servlet-based application, etc.
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Booting up Spring Social
Craig Walls presents the latest that Spring Social has to offer, including integration with Spring Security, automatic reconnect, and a dramatically simpler configuration model using Spring Boot.
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How Individuals can Change the World
Brie Rogers Lowery inspires those willing to change their businesses in spite of what feels like official stonewalling or apathy.
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A Distributed Transactional Database on Hadoop
John Leach explains using HBase co-processors to support a full ANSI SQL RDBMS without modifying the core HBase source, showing how Hadoop/HBase can replace traditional RDBMS solutions.
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Uncertainty, Complexity, the Cynefin Framework and Knowing Enough to Act
Greg Brougham introduces the Cynefin model and related practices which can be used to address uncertainty in the modern world.