InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Writing Usable APIs in Practice
Giovanni Asproni presents techniques for writing usable APIs: using user's perspective, naming, the caller should have the control, explicit context, error reporting, logging, organizing.
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Introducing RavenDB: NoSQL is Rapping at Your Door
David Neal introduces RavenDB, a document-oriented database with .NET, Silverlight, JavaScript and REST APIs.
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Eventually Consistent HTTP with Statebox and Riak
Bob Ippolito explains how to solve concurrent update conflicts with Statebox, an open source library for automatic conflict resolution, running on top of Riak.
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Java.next
Erik Onnen attempts to demonstrate that Java is still the best programming language for the JVM if simplified idioms are used along with proper tooling.
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Winning Hearts and Minds: How to Embed UX from Scratch in a Large Organization
Michele Ide-Smith presents the lessons learned in the process of introducing UX principles and techniques into a large organization through a series of small steps.
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LMAX Disruptor: 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency
Dave Farley and Martin Thompson discuss solutions for doing low-latency high throughput transactions based on the Disruptor concurrency pattern.
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Actor Interaction Patterns
Dale Schumacher presents several patterns of actor interaction that can be used in collaborative programs written in any language.
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Scalaz: Functional Programming in Scala
Rúnar Bjarnason discusses Scalaz, a Scala library of pure data structures, type classes, highly generalized functions, and concurrency abstractions to perform functional programming in Scala.
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Software Naturalism - Embracing the Real Behind the Ideal
Michael Feathers analyzes real code bases concluding that code is not nearly as beautiful as designers aspire to, discussing the everyday decisions that alter the code bit by bit.
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How We Got Here, And What To Do About It
Barry Hawkins considers as necessary to have a development process but in the same time maintaining a critical view of it in an attempt to improve it and make it fit within the current context.
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Developer/Designer Cross Training (or how to get developers to do your work for you)
Adrian Howard advises designers to cooperate with developers from the early stages of a project in an attempt to create a product that more closely reflects the designer’s vision.
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Cloud Foundry: Inside the Machine
Derek Collison presents Cloud Foundry’s architecture with details on the Cloud Controller, the Service Provisioning Agent, the Droplet Execution Agent, and the Messaging System.
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