InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Introducing Apache Hadoop: The Modern Data Operating System
Eli Collins introduces Hadoop: why it came about, the benefits it produces, its history, its architecture, use cases and applications.
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Rewriting GitHub Pages with Riak and Webmachine
Jesse Newland discusses how GitHub pages were re-written with Erlang, Riak and Webmachine in order to improve their performance.
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Questions not Stories
Adrian Howard introduces a Lean Startup practice that could be complementary to stories: making hypothesis and creating experiments meant to validate or invalidate those hypothesis.
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Architecting a RESTful Cloud - The Key to Elasticity
Jason Bloomberg explains the architectural requirements for Cloud-based applications and how REST can be used to achieve elasticity in the cloud.
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Petabyte Scale Data at Facebook
Dhruba Borthakur discusses the different types of data used by Facebook and how they are stored, including graph data, semi-OLTP data, immutable data for pictures, and Hadoop/Hive for analytics.
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The “Waste”berg: Traditional Project Resourcing Methods
Stacia Viscardi outlines the weaknesses of traditional resourcing methods and their illusion of efficiency, presenting a way for transitioning to a leaner and more innovative approach.
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The Open API Economy: What Is It and How Do I Capitalize On It?
Laura Olson presents the Web API market landscape, the business of creating and selling such APIs and the technology supporting this business.
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Computer Architecture of the 1960’s
Carlton Mills reviews Algol 60, PL/360, BLISS, Algol W, PL/1, C and C++, considering that rediscovering Algol could solve many of today’s Internet virus attacks and common programming errors.
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Real Time Bidding: Where Erlang Blooms
Fred Hebert discusses using Erlang for a real-time bidding system, providing some details of its design and architecture, along with lessons learned while implementing it.
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Accelerating the Web: How GPUs Make Browsers Fast
Jarred Nicholls explains how browsers leverage the GPU to speed up complex web pages by primitive drawing, composing layers and using tiles backing stores.
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The Power of Cultural Storytelling
Michael Margolis discusses how the outsider can play a positive role in the process of the team’s cultural change by sharing his own story, his life experience.
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