InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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CoffeeScript: The Good Parts
Azat Mardan shares experiences using CoffeeScript in production, exploring its format, evaluating its design and showcasing some of the more useful and prominent projects that have adopted it.
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Hello Ansible: A Story about Infrastructure Agility
Baraa Basata introduces Ansible, comparing it with Chef and Capistrano and exploring automation principles: disposable servers, package management, and applying design principles to infrastructure.
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The Better Parts
Douglas Crockford discusses how to use programming languages more effectively; reviews the good parts in EcmaScript 6 and JSON.
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Understanding Objective-C Inside and Out
Jeff Kelley discusses Objective-C basics – properties, categories – and more advanced features – linking, ARC, creating classes at runtime, memory management and tagged pointers.
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How We Built a Cloud Platform Using Netflix OSS
Carl Quinn explains how Riot Games built a cloud platform based on the Netflix OSS stack plus a number of other extensions including Dropwizard, Eureka, Archaius, Asgard, Edda, etc.
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Getting Things Done at Scale
Amber Case discusses cultural changes when switching from a team of 6 to one of 20 in a new 3,000 people organization.
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Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane
John Hughes discusses automated techniques that can improve testing, with war stories from Ericsson, Klarna and Volvo Cars, showing how to nail the hard stuff.
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Erjang - With the JVM Under the Hood
Kresten Krab Thorup introduces Erjang, an Erlang VM based on the JVM, disclosing some of its internal workings and challenges building it.
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Building an Enterprise PaaS
Dave McCrory discusses what it takes to build an Enterprise Platform as a Service, covering data services, design principles, CI, monitoring, coding standards, dependencies, security, and deployment.
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Big Data in Capital Markets
The authors present design patterns and use cases of capital market firms that are incorporating big data technologies into their credit risk analysis, price discovery or sentiment analysis software.
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Are Your G1GC Logs Speaking to You?
Kirk Pepperdine explains how to use the G1GC logging to improve app performance while reducing its hardware footprint.
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Akka for Concurrency Works
Duncan DeVore reviews the challenges of concurrent programming on the JVM and explores Akka, a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed applications on the JVM.