InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Modern Legacy Systems
Robert Annett explores some of the issues of upgrading, maintaining or replacing legacy Java and .NET applications that haven't been touched in a decade, providing advice on solving common problems.
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Painful Success - Lessons Learned while Scaling Up
Jesper Richter-Reichhelm shares lessons learned from failures while scaling Wooga games to millions of daily users.
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Managing for Serendipity
Dave Snowden discusses managing exaptation, addressing the use of discovery networks, modularity of needs and capabilities, distributed cognition and Cynefin.
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Ritz, The Missing Clojure Tooling
Hugo Duncan introduces Ritz, a set of tools for debugging, inspecting, project reloading, with codeq and lein integration, showing how to use it with nrepl.el in Emacs.
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Clojure: Enemy of the State
Alex Miller discusses Clojure’s approach to data, comparing it with OOP’s approach, and covering various related topics such as mutation, state vs. value, primitive and composite data.
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The Joy of Flying Robots with Clojure
Carin Meier shares from her experience doing functional programming in Clojure for flying robots.
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Combining JavaScript with Other Languages on the Web
Alon Zakai discusses using Emscripten, Embind and asm.js to generate JavaScript code from other languages, in an attempt to make such code run at near native speeds.
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Surviving Big JavaScript Projects
Anton Kovalyov provides an inside look into a large JavaScript project, presenting techniques for maintaining code quality while allowing the team to push lots of changes every day.
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Testable JavaScript
Mark Ethan Trostler conducts a tutorial on getting started with JavaScript testing.
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How Draw Something Scaled To 50 million New Users, in 50 Days, with Zero Downtime
Robin Johnson discusses using a data management model for games that can be scaled, and the bottlenecks and challenges met by OMGPOP scaling to millions of users.
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How to Narrow Down What to Test
Zsolt Fabok presents several methods that can be used to find areas which are worth testing so that organizations do not have to spend more effort on testing than what is absolutely necessary.
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Scaling at Dropbox
Rajiv Eranki shares the pains and lessons learned scaling up Dropbox from a few thousands to tens of millions of users.