InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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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.
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Writing Executable Specifications
Thomas Sundberg emphasizes the need for writing executable specifications demoing on example using Cucumber.
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“Batteries Included” - Advantages of an End-to-end JavaScript Stack
Juergen Fesslmeier discusses the advantages of using a complete JavaScript stack in order to create business web applications demoing creating such an app with Wakanda.
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Leiningen 2 - Humane build management for Clojure
John Stevenson introduces Leiningen 2, a build system for Clojure, explaining how to set it up and how to use it.
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A Type Driven Approach to Functional Design
Michael Feathers describes an approach toward planning the design of the functional portions of an application by using a variation of Haskell type expression syntax.
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Stop Using Native HTML5
Kyle Simpson advises on accessing HTML5 or JavaScript native APIs though a façade built with h5ive that would protect the application code from evolving API changes over the following years.
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Actionable Metrics - Enabling Decision-Making in Netflix’s Decentralized Environment
Roy Rapoport discusses how Netflix uses metrics to monitor and manage their operating environment along with some notes about their event management system.
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JSR-352: Batch Standardization
Wayne Lund introduces Java Batch JSR-352 explaining the domain and job specification languages used, the programming model and the runtime specification of the standard.
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Building an Impenetrable ZooKeeper
Kathleen Ting details 8 misconfigurations that can bring ZooKeeper down.
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Testing the Way to Faster Releases
Amy Phillips shares how Songkick made the transition to Continuous Integration, the difficulties encountered, the cultural changes involved, some of the lessons learnt and practical advice.