InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Breaking through the Clouds - Creating an Open Cloud Ecosystem
Andy Piper discusses the current state of PaaS, and why its success lie in enabling developer productivity, openness and choice, considering Open Source in general, and Cloud Foundry in particular.
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Extensible Languages for Domain Abstraction
Sebastian Erdweg introduces SugarJ, a Java-based extensible programming framework which extends Java with closures.
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A Shorter Path from Clojure to ClojureScript
Roman Gonzalez and Tavis Rudd discuss techniques for shortening the ClojureScript development cycle by using the same codebase for clj and cljs and automatically running tests on the JVM.
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Living in a Post-Functional World
Daniel Spiewak discusses how modern languages such as Scala, Clojure, and Haskell have moved beyond the simple lambda calculus paradigm, being better suited for large application architectures.
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Resiliency through Failure - Netflix's Approach to Extreme Availability in the Cloud
Ariel Tseitlin discusses Netflix' failure-based suite of tools, collectively called the Simian Army, used to improve resiliency and maintain the cloud environment.
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Amazon DynamoDB Design Patterns & Best Practices
Siva Raghupathy discusses DynamoDB Design Patterns & Best Practices for realizing DynamoDB benefits at the right cost.
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HTML5 Adoption in Finance - Migration Strategies and Challenges
Chuck Doerr, Asim Malik discuss tools and techniques used by financial firms for native HTML5 UX, and approaches for achieving application interoperability and incremental adoption of HTML5.
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Building Modern Web Sites: A Story of Scalability and Availability
Sid Anand uses examples from LinkedIn, Netflix, and eBay to discuss some common causes of outages and scaling issues. He also discusses modern practices in availability and scaling in web sites today.
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Evolution of AMQP at SoundCloud
Sebastian Ohm and Tomás Senart discuss the evolution of an AMQP implementation at SoundCloud.
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Git–Why Should I Care about the Index?
Charles Bailey takes a look at Git Index’s internals, explaining why it is used, what and how is stored in it, and what operations can be used against it.
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Concatenative Clojure
Brandon Bloom introduces Factor and demonstrates Factjor –concatenative DSL - and DomScript –DOM library written in ClojureScript - in the context of concatenative programming.
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Building a Media Player Application with the GStreamer SDK for Android
Xavi Artigas introduces GStreamer, a Free, Open-Source framework for handling multimedia, enabling applications to capture, process and playback any kind of media.