InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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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.
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Building High Performing Agile Teams
Naveed Khawaja and Carl Bruiners introduce various Agile principles and practices and conduct a hands-on practice session meant to explain how to build a performing team.
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Akka Eye for the Spring Guy or Gal
Jan Machacek introduces writing Scala applications to Spring developers, demoing using Akka actors with mix-in composition, higher-order functions, higher-order kinds, and REST API.
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Recovering the Ability to Design when Surrounded by Messy Legacy Systems
Eric Evans shares 4 strategies for dealing with messy legacy systems: Bubble Context, ACL Synchronization, Exposing Legacy Assets, and Domain Events Channel.
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The Mobile Web Developer's Tool Belt
Pete LePage lists a number of mobile development tools, frameworks and libraries, and introduces a testing and iteration process meant to ensure an application works on as many devices as possible.
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Multiplatform, Promises and HTML5
Max Firtman discusses the present mobile ecosystem, why cross-platform is the key to success, HTML5 APIs, challenges with HTML5, when HTML5 is a proper solutions and other.
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Extending the Enterprise Data Warehouse with Hadoop
Rob Lancaster explains the steps made by Orbitz in order to bridge the gap between their data in the data warehouse and the data in Hadoop.