InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Going for Speed: Testing Against Performance Expectations
Jay Harris offers tips on using unit testing to improve the performance of applications.
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Co-Making Great Products
Jeff Patton presents a work style where everyone takes ownership of products, being involved in identifying and solving problems, and shares practices for collaboratively designing solutions.
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DSL Design - A Conceptual Framework for Building Good DSLs
Markus Völter discusses the abstractions that should be considered when creating a DSL, insisting on expressivity, semantics, modularity, and concrete syntax.
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"Big Data" and the Future of DevOps
Ram C Singh discusses using Big Data for infrastructure telemetry along with good practices and an autonomic engine to create an autonomic computing infrastructure that might prevent downtime.
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Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework
Steve Vinoski introduces Erlang’s OTP Frmework, outlining some of its main features, including several behaviors – implementations of common patterns useful for concurrent fault-tolerant applications.
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A Team, A System, Some Legacy ... and You
Eoin Woods shares some of his architectural experience along with principles and techniques useful when working with legacy systems.
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Ain’t No Cure for the Distributed Blues
Dan North shares his experience in a new endeavor working for a trading company with distributed teams embracing ideas from Lean and Theory of Constraints.
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Working with MIG
David Dawson and Marcus Kern share lessons learned creating a high-performance mass audience participation system using NoSQL.
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Master-Builders Have Rich Conceptual Models of Software Design
George Fairbanks stresses the importance of having a good grasp of various conceptual models in order to be a master-builder, translated into development as “learn your software architecture”.
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Swarm Coding
Phil Hagelberg advises on starting and maintaining user groups doing swarm coding, a form of interactive development in an informal setting.
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Backbone.js
Jeremy Ashkenas introduces Backbone.js, a JavaScript data modeling framework intended to decouple data handling code from the DOM, being useful especially when the user interacts with the data.
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Scala: Simplifying Development at guardian.co.uk
Graham Tackley shares the lessons learned running The Guardian website on Java, and why they decided to switch to Scala and how it helps them.