InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Building Cloud Software–It's Big but It's Not All Fluffy
Andy Britcliffe shares some lessons learned building software for the cloud, along with advice on architecture, technologies and the need for vendor support.
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Taking the Red Pill: The Ruby Toolbox to Start You Down the Rabbit Hole
Jamie Wright introduces some of the tools, libraries, and methods used to build a SaaS system in Ruby on Rails.
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MapReduce and Its Discontents
Dean Wampler discusses the strengths and weaknesses of MapReduce, and the newer variants for big data processing: Pregel and Storm.
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Macros are Hard!
David McNeil introduces a model for thinking about Clojure evaluation through code samples with the purpose for an easier understanding and writing of macros.
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Beyond Ninjas: DOM Manipulation with ClojureScript and Domina
Luke VanderHart introduces Domina – DOM manipulation library –, explaining a new way of writing dynamic web pages.
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Keynote: System, Heal Thyself
Mike Andrews discusses architecting for failure even you when don’t know what might fail.
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Use and Abuse of Other People's Cucumbers - When Cucumbers Go Bad
Matt Wynne discusses Mortgage-Driven Development and adopting other people’s tools and processes without adaptation or consideration to actual needs.
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The Impedance Mismatch is Our Fault
Stuart Dabbs Halloway explains what the impedance mismatch is and what can be done to solve it in the context of RDBMS, OOP, and NoSQL.
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Polyglot Parallelism: A Case Study in Using Erlang and Ruby at Rackspace
Phil Toland discusses using Erlang and Ruby providing backup for 20k network devices running in 8 datacenters across 3 continents for Rackspace’s operations.
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Panel: The Battle of Modest Proportions
Jeremy Ashkenas, Tom Dale, Matt DeBergalis, Eric Ferraiuolo, Igor Minar respond to questions from audience regarding various web application issues.
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What‘s Your Silver Bullet?
Marina Haase runs a highly participatory session collecting and analyzing ideas meant to help understand how MDSD works, and to uncover new techniques and tools.
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Messaging over the Web with WebSocket & JMS
Robin Zimmermann lays out the broad architectural details of server applications with a web-based client exchanging messages over WebSockets and JMS.