InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Ember.js Advanced Patterns
Paul Chavard discusses advanced techniques for building large EmberJS applications with Ember Data.
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Creating Groovy DSLs that Developers Can Actually Use
Guillaume Laforge and Paul King show how to leverage Groovy to build a Mars rover controlling DSL, including metaprogramming techniques and integration mechanisms.
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Application Architectures with Grails
Peter Ledbrook overviews several application architectures that can be done in Grails: MVC plus a DB back-end and a service layer, single-page, and event-based back-end.
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Deconstructing Functional Programming
Gilad Bracha explains how to distinguish FP hype from reality and to apply key ideas of FP in non-FP languages, separating the good parts of FP from its unnecessary cultural baggage.
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Programming a 144-computer Chip to Minimize Power
Chuck Moore discusses coding techniques for power savings: tight coding to minimize the number of instructions executed, reducing instruction fetches, transistor switching, and duty cycle.
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What Is a Strange Loop and What Is It Like to Be One?
Douglas Hofstadter attempts to get across the crux of these intuitions about the mysterious concept of "I".
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Babel: An Untyped, Stack-based HLL
Clayton Bauman introduces Babel, an open source language implemented in C, targeted for cloud computing. Other features: interpreted, untyped stack-based, postfix, supports arrays, lists and hashes.
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Advanced Front-end Debugging
Panos Astithas presents some of the debugging, profiling and tracing tools available to web developers today.
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Growing from the Few to the Many: Scaling the Operations Organization at Facebook
Pedro Canahuati describes how Facebook's operations maintains their infrastructure, including challenges faced and lessons learned: prioritizing calls, managing technical debt, incident management.
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From Code to Monkeys: Continuous Delivery at Netflix
Dianne Marsh presents the open source tools used by Netflix to keep the continuous delivery wheels spinning.
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Claims Based Authentication
Justin Kobel introduces claims-based authentication, what are claims, their life cycle, explaining how to consume them in .NET through a number of demoes.