InfoQ Homepage Presentations
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Keynote: Real Software Engineering
Glenn Vanderburg sustains the need for redefining software engineering as the science and art of designing and making systems that can readily adapt to the situations to which they may be subjected.
-
Building Social Apps for All Mobile Platforms
James Pearce discusses the current trends in social applications and some of the challenges and solutions in creating HTML5 applications for mobile devices.
-
Better Product Definition with Lean UX and Design Thinking
Jeff Gothelf explains how to create better product definitions with Design Thinking and Lean UX.
-
This is Your Workflow on Catnip
Bodil Stokke introduces the productivity benefits of Catnip, a text editor with REPL (Read Eval Print Loop) functionality integrated into the Clojure environment.
-
The Buyer’s Guide to Cloud and Hybrid
Matthew Johns offers a guide to customers interested in using the cloud by comparing various such solutions – dedicated, hybrid, self service, full service.