InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala
Daniel Spiewak shows how to create immutable data that supports structural sharing, such as: Singly-linked List, Banker’s Queue, 2-3 Finger Tree, Red-Black Tree, Patricia Trie, Bitmapped Vector Trie.
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Grails in the Cloud
Peter Ledbrook outlines the differences between several PaaS providers from the perspective of building, deploying and running a Grails application in the cloud, demoing running it on Cloud Foundry.
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Bushido, and the Art of Staying Sane in the Game Development Business
Lars Kroll Kristensen shares the lessons learned from the rise and fall of Runestone, lessons applied in another game development company, Unity Studios.
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Distributed Systems: What Nobody Told You
Shaneal Manek tells the story of how things can go wrong with a distributed system which turned into a success after incorporating appropriate tools for monitoring, analytics, logging, security.
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Architects? We Don't Need No Stinkin’ Architects!
Michael Stiefel attempts to clear up some misunderstandings regarding the role played by the software architect.
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Bringing Riak to the Mobile Platform
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses data models for Riak, a protocol for synchronizing key-values, and BucketDB, a mobile Riak client.
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Chef in the Cloud and On the Ground
Michael T. Nygard discusses using Chef in the datacenter and in the cloud for managing physical and virtual systems.
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Messaging for Modern Applications
Tom McCuch discusses the current trends in modern applications, how they can use messaging, how Spring Integration provides a messaging DSL, and the architecture of AMQP and RabbitMQ.
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Introduction to Spring Data Neo4j
Michael Hunger discusses graph databases and the need for them in the larger context of NoSQL data stores, introducing Spring Data, Neo4j, and Spring Data Neo4j.
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Let Me Introduce My Moncai!
Dale Ragan presents Moncai, an open source .NET/Mono PaaS currently in beta, detailing its current features and plans for the future, and what is makes it more attractive than similar solutions.
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Understanding Java Garbage Collection and What You Can Do about It
Gil Tene explains the workings of a garbage collector: terminology, metrics, fundamentals, key mechanisms, classification of current GCs, the “Application Memory Wall” problem, and details Azul C4 GC.
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SoundCloud
Eric Wahlforss shares his thoughts on what’s great and not so great in building a company’s identity and culture related to communication, relations, the right people, technologies, Agile, etc..