InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Building a Hybrid Cloud at Canadian Pacific
Stuart Charlton presents Canadian Pacific’s strategy for a modern IT: adopting hybrid cloud, introducing Agile/Lean development, automating everything, distributed data systems, RESTful integration.
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Hadoop and Cassandra, Sitting in a Tree ...
Jake Luciani introduces Brisk, a Hadoop and Hive distribution using Cassandra for core services and storage, presenting the benefits of running Hadoop in a peer-to-peer masterless architecture.
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Anomaly Detection, Fault Tolerance and Anticipation Patterns
John Allspaw discusses fault tolerance, anomaly detection and anticipation patterns helpful to create highly available and resilient systems.
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Dealing with Information Overload and Improving Effectiveness
Scott Hanselman advices on dealing with information overload: audit and sort info sources, schedule work sprints, turn off distractions, triaging the inbox, having a personal toolbox.
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Ozma: Extending Scala with Oz Concurrency
Peter Van Roy discusses solving concurrency issues with deterministic concurrency using Ozma, an extension of the Scala language employing the Oz deterministic dataflow concepts.
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Why Prismatic Goes Faster With Clojure
Bradford Cross recommends creating custom libraries containing composable abstractions instead of monolithic frameworks, exemplifying with Flop, Store, Graph, and Newsfeeds, all written in Clojure.
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Classifiers: A Simple Framework for Accelerating Application Development
David Raal discusses Classifiers, a framework for dealing with classifiers and schemes, covering: what classifiers are, usage, design basics, integrating them into applications, pitfalls and issues.
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Introduction to CUDA C
Cyril Zeller introduces NVIDIA CUDA development, showing how to write and execute C programs on the GPU, how to manage GPU memory and communication with the CPU.
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Concurrent Programming Using The Disruptor
Trisha Gee introduces Disruptor, a concurrency framework based on a data structure – a ring buffer – that enables fast message passing in a parallel environment.
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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Meta-Programming Java
Howard Lewis Ship explains how to perform meta-programming in Java using annotations, bytecode manipulation and component architecture, as it is done by the Tapestry framework.
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Cloud Foundry: Design and Architecture
Derek Collison discusses the goals, the design premises and patterns employed in creating the architecture of Cloud Foundry, VMware’s open source PaaS, unveiling internal architectural details.
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Developing Enterprise Mobile Apps
Sohil Shah discusses creating iPhone and Android enterprise mobile applications based on cloud services using the open source platform OpenMobster.