InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Collaboration: At the Extremities of Extreme
Jason Ayers share the observations he made watching a team of developers collaborating in real time on the same code base, pushing XP, pair programming and continuous integration to their extremes.
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Yesod Web Framework
Michael Snoyman presents Yesod, a web framework written in Haskell and containing a web server, templating, ORM, libraries (templating, gravatar, etc.).
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Transactions without Transactions
Richard Kreuter and Kyle Banker on how to avoid classical RDBMS transactional systems by using compensation mechanisms, transactional messaging or transactional procedures.
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Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Alex Papadimoulis discusses ugly code, where it comes from, how to avoid it, and how to get rid of it.
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Architecting Visa for Massive Scale and Continuous Innovation
John Davies examines Visa’s architecture and shows how enterprises have architected complex integrations incorporating Hadoop, memcached, Ruby on Rails, and others to deliver innovative solutions.
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Max Protect: Scalability and Caching at ESPN.com
Sean Comerford unveils ESPN.com’s architecture, what components are used and why, and the current changes the website goes through.
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Questions for an Enterprise Architect
Erik Dörnenburg answers: What is Enterprise and Evolutionary Architecture?, discussing 4 issues: Turning strategy into execution, Ensuring conformance, Where do the architects sit? Buying or building?
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Wrap Your SQL Head Around Riak MapReduce
Sean Cribbs explains what Map-Reduce and Riak are, why and how to use Map-Reduce with Riak, and how to convert SQL queries into their Map-Reduce equivalents.
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Polyglot Persistence for Java Developers - Moving Out of the Relational Comfort Zone
Chris Richardson shows how he ported a relational database to three NoSQL data stores: Redis, Cassandra and MongoDB.
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The Golden Circle – Why How What
Jean Tabaka challenges the audience to reflect on what Agile practices they are employing, how they are using them, ending with the questions “Why have their organization chosen to go Agile?
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Spring and Platform Interoperability
Stephen Bohlen explains how Spring helps with interoperability between Java and .NET, demoing it with the help of a sample application.
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How to Stop Writing Next Year's Unsustainable Piece of Code
Guilherme Silveira mentions some of the turning points in project development that may affect the quality of the code offering advice on avoiding writing crappy code.