InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Bringing Riak to the Mobile Platform
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses bringing Riak to mobile. He covers Riak’s data model, BucketDB – a Riak client-, and the protocol used to synchronize the data on the device between BucketDB and Riak.
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Keynote: The Value of Values
Rich Hickey compares value-oriented programming with place-oriented programming concluding that the time of imperative languages has passed and it is the time of functional programming.
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Technology is Your Office
Horia Dragomir discusses approaches and tools meant to improve the development process of distributed teams.
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High Performance Mobile
Steve Souders discusses the importance of mobile performance, providing advice on creating more responsive mobile apps, and outlining the latest developments in analyzing mobile performance.
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The Tactical and Strategic Art of Economic Models
Don Reinertsen outlines the need for using an economic model for development, explaining what that is emphasizing the cost of delay, how an economic model looks like, how to build and use one.
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Stratos: Open Source Platform-as-a-Service
Paul Fremantle discusses the benefits of using an open PaaS, detailing in this context the services provided by Stratos and StratosLive.
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Mobile and The New Two-Tiered Web Architecture
Aditya Bansod presents the shift in web architecture introduced by the latest mobile devices, and how Sencha’s software can help building modern applications.
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NYTimes: World Class Journalism Accessible on Every Device
Brian Murphy on NY Times mobile: the architecture, cloud computing influences on design, native, HTML5 and hybrid apps, tools and frameworks employed and how the apps evolved over time.
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The Evolution of Integration
Paul Fremantle discusses the evolution of EAI, comparing the latest approaches, suggesting using Async Messaging, EDA, APIs, and doing high volumes, and underlining that evolution is not monotonic.
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How Would You Say That? Conversations for Double Loop Learning with Kanban
Benjamin Mitchell advices on carrying team conversations about information presented on Kanban boards helping members to change their thinking and acts in order to achieve evolutionary change.
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Panel: Talking Teams and Fielding Your Questions
David Hussman, David Laribee, Jeff Patton, Richard Sheridan and Susan Standiford discuss forming and building successful teams: hiring new people, pairing, combining people of different levels, etc.
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Building Rich User Experiences without JavaScript Spaghetti
Jared Faris provides 3 principles –decouple everything, make it testable, push events not state – and some patterns which help avoiding creating JavaScript spaghetti code over time.