InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Building a Culture Where Software Projects Get Done
Greg Brockman shares Stripe's principles powering their software projects and the culture instilled to avoid the usual software engineering traps: failed rewrites, delayed timelines, etc.
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Apache Tez: Accelerating Hadoop Query Processing
Bikas Saha and Arun Murthy detail the design of Tez, highlighting some of its features and sharing some of the initial results obtained by Hive on Tez.
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Why Ruby Isn't Slow
Alex Gaynor explains how he solved the usual Ruby VM speed problems with Topaz, a high performance VM built on the same technologies that power PyPy.
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Scala vs Idris: Dependent Types, Now and in the Future
Miles Sabin and Edwin Brady exemplify what can be done with a language with dependent types, what are the limitations and what could be done in the future when dependent types reach maturity.
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Raft - The Understandable Distributed Protocol
Ben Johnson discusses the Raft protocol and how it works. Raft is a consensus distributed protocol.
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The Present and Future of the Web Platform
Brendan Eich surveys interesting developments in the Web platform, analysing emergent trends, and making some predictions.
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JavaScript Frameworks Panel: Which Is the Right Framework for Me?
The panelists discuss JavaScript tooling: how to select them, benefits of compiling to JavaScript, differences between MVC solutions, using one framework for both client and server, etc..
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Insights from Using Ember.js in the Field
Stefan Fochler shares best practices on using Ember.js to master the needs of real-world web applications, discussing what worked well and what didn't.
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Deploying Machine Learning and Data Science at Scale
Nick Kolegraff discusses common problems and architecture to support all the phases of data science and how to start a data science initiative, sharing lessons from Accenture, Best Buy, and Rackspace.
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Stop Hitting Yourself: CSS Design Patterns That Scale
Kevin Lamping presents patterns for writing CSS for very large websites.
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Visual Management: Leading with What You Can See
Craig Smith, Renee Troughton discuss improving visual management: different types of story walls, ways to visualize the product backlog, the important of queue columns and WIP limitation, etc.
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Metaprogramming With The Groovy Runtime - Part 1/2
Jeff Scott Brown discusses Groovy’s runtime metaprogramming capabilities and the Meta Object Protocol (MOP).