InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Full Stack JavaScript
Grant Shipley demos using JavaScript and Node.js to develop an iOS and Android application using MongoDB as backend.
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Lambda: A Peek Under the Hood
Brian Goetz explains how lambda expressions are implemented using the invokedynamic instruction introduced in Java SE 7.
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Canonical Models for API Interoperability
Ted Epstein shows how a shared canonical model can make life easier for API consumers, while still allowing the flexibility to expose different services, with different contextual requirements.
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Living in the Matrix with Bytecode Manipulation
Sponsored by New Relic. Ashley Puls introduces three common byte code manipulation frameworks: ASM, CGLib, and Javassist, providing enough detail to get one started.
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The Next Wave of SQL-on-Hadoop: The Hadoop Data Warehouse
Marcel Kornacker presents a case study of an EDW built on Impala running on 45 nodes, reducing processing time from hours to seconds and consolidating multiple data sets into one single view.
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Evolving REST for an IoT World
Todd Montgomery explains using WebSocket and reactive programming in an event driven RESTful architecture for the emerging IoT world.
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Web & Database Load Testing with JMeter
Michael Dowden introduces JMeter and explains how to develop a data-driven methodology to determine some of the limits of a web application: max number of concurrent users, bottlenecks, etc.
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Finding the Needle in a Big Data Haystack
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Cloudera, Eva Andreasson discusses how search and Hadoop can help with some of the industry's biggest challenges. She introduces the data hub concept.
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Continuous Improvement: Hell on Earth?
Katherine Kirk reflects through case study examples on what continuous improvement feels like on the ground and explores how it can be better by learning from other industries, research and real-life.
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Garbage Collection is Good!
Eva Andreasson has a fairly entertaining and yet painful presentation around garbage collection that will probably will end with more questions than answers.
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Interpreting the Unwritten Rules - or Are They Guidelines?
Shane Hastie presents examples of how the most innocent of question or suggestion can send teams into a spin, and suggests a number of techniques to help create an environment for real communication.
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Understanding Latency: Some Key Lessons & Tools
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Azul Systems, Gil Tene discusses pitfalls encountered in measuring and characterizing latency, and ways to address them using some new open source tools.