InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Grace: An Open-source Educational OO Language
Michael Homer introduces Grace, an educational OO language used to teach programming to students.
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Static vs. Dynamic Languages
Stuart Williams discusses the merits of dynamic languages, definitions, stereotypes, myths, suggesting when and how to introduce such a language in production.
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Panel: SOA and Agile Development
Suzanne D'Souza, Steve Hamby, Nicolai Josuttis, Sergey Popov discuss if and how SOA can be implemented in an Agile environment.
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Cloud Computing Impact on Future Enterprise Architectures
Jaap Schekkerman discusses cloud service models, benefits and risks, and how cloud computing is going to influence the enterprise architecture.
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Apache Cassandra Anti Patterns
Matthew Dennis covers the most common mistakes made with Cassandra that he has noticed being made both in deployment and code.
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JavaScript Performance Patterns
Stoyan Stefanov explains how to reason about and to address performance issues in JavaScript applications.
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Transactions: Over Used or Just Misunderstood?
Mark Little provides advice on when it is not recommended to use transactions and how to use transactions with Web Services, NoSQL, REST and mobile infrastructures.
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Socio-PLT: Principles for Programming Language Adoption
Leo A. Meyerovich explains how social adoption patterns can help language designers make new languages that are inherently attractive and desirable by developers.
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Keynote: Iconoclasm
Ted Neward asks what defines the software iconoclast, what demarcates the “true” iconoclast from the mere pretender, and how can we use the characteristics of the iconoclast to change our world?
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Scaling Facebook Engineering
David Mortenson details how Facebook maintained efficiency while increasing the number of engineers by reducing the n00b time sink, keeping development fast and avoiding unintended consequences.
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Getting started with Spring Data and Distributed Database Grids
Mark Johnson and David Turanski introduce Spring Data for GemFire demoing using Spring Data for persistency across multiple distributed database grids.
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Panel: Why Exactly Do I Need a Business Analyst on My Next Project?
Guy Dugas, Angie Duncan, Barb Spurway, Kevin Giles discuss about the roles, skills and competencies of business analysts, challenges and experiences, and how they have delivered value.