InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Storm: Distributed and Fault-Tolerant Real-time Computation
Nathan Marz introduces Twitter Storm, outlining its architecture and use cases, and takes a look at future features to be made available.
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High-quality, Impactful, Fast UX Research for Engineers
Tomer Sharon discusses the psychology of attitude & behavior and shares tips for conducting a high-quality, impactful, and fast UX research.
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Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with PhoneGap
Christophe Coenraets compares hybrid mobile apps with native ones and demonstrates building HTML5 applications with PhoneGap.
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Community Management: The Next Wave of SOA Governance and API Management
Tim Hall discusses compares and contrasts SOA Governance and API Management, explaining why he believes they will evolve into a new discipline called “Community Management”.
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Faster, Cheaper Identity Management through Loose Coupling – the LIMA Approach
Ganesh Prasad discusses the essentials of the loosely-coupled identity management approach called LIMA,
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Beautiful JavaScript with CoffeeScript
Amir Barylko introduces CoffeeScript showing some of its main constructs.
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Transactions for the REST of Us
Cesare Pautasso and Guy Pardon propose a way of implementing transactions over HTTP using REST and the Try-Confirm/Cancel protocol.
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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) with Cloud 4 Education
Ruth Lennon discusses the challenges, the benefits and the lessons learned transitioning from a traditional education form to a BYOD in the cloud-based one.
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Chasing the Golden GOOS
Alex Aitken and Nick Faulkner share lessons learned building a cross-platform HTML5 application based on GOOS principles (Growing Object-Oriented Software).
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How Percona Helps MySQL Succeed in the Cloud
Koa McCullough presents best practices for running Percona Server and MySQL in the cloud, cloud backups using EBS, Xtrabackup and S3, using Percona Toolkit to simplify operations, and XtraDB Cluster.
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How the Ancient Greeks Invented Programming
Matt Butcher explores the philosophical systems devised by Plato and Aristotle, showing how Plato laid the foundations for what is now OOP, while Aristotle’s dynamic model is at the core of FP.
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Postgres Demystified
Craig Kerstiens presents the history of Postgres, the basics of developing with Postgres, notes on its performance, and tips on querying it.