InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Seventeen Secrets of the Great Legacy Makeover Masters
Brian Foote shares 17 tips that help dealing with muddy legacy code: Testing, Divide & Conquer, Neoteny, Gentrification, Demolition, Quarantine, Refactoring, Craft, etc.
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Knockout.js
Steve Sanderson demoes creating a web application with a dynamic UI using Knockout.js - a MVVM JavaScript library.
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Real-Time Delivery Architecture at Twitter
Raffi Krikorian details Twitter’s timeline architecture, its “write path” and “read path”, making it possible to deliver 300k tweets/sec.
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Going Native: Decisions for Mobile
Elan Lennard discusses porting a desktop app to a mobile device: choosing the functionality that makes sense, make it look great, and deciding between native and HTML5.
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Firefox Developer Tools
Joe Walker covers present and future Firefox development tools for editing, inspection, history and control.
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The State of JavaScript
Brendan Eich reviews the history of JavaScript, then introduces and demonstrates some of the new features coming in ES6.
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Advanced iOS Development
Pete Goodliffe presents advanced techniques for creating iOS apps based on real life examples that show how to make the most of Objective-C, how to create Retina apps, and others.
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Computing Like the Brain
Jeff Hawkins discusses 3 operating principles of the neocortex and introduces Grok, a predictive modeling product based on those principles.
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Spring Data - NoSQL - No Problems...
Peter Bell introduces 4 NoSQL categories –Key-Value, Document, Column, Graph - and explains how one can use Spring Data to work with such data stores.
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The Value Proposition for Agility–A Dual Perspective
Hakan Erdogmus and John Favaro explain why agility is good and when. They associate agility with flexibility which can lead to a better but more costly decision making process.
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The Startup Hangover: Supporting 15M Users
Phil Calçado presents SoundCloud’s approach to dealing with scalability issues when their user number grew beyond what they initially could support by creating services in various languages.