InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Failures and Successes with Reuse
Herbjörn Wilhelmsen discusses the reasons why an SOA project failed while trying to reuse existing resources, and how it succeeded later starting from the same business case with reuse in mind.
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Groovy for Java Programmers
Jeff Brown introduces Groovy to Java developers, outlining the conciseness and expressivity of the language and covering various topics: GStrings, Closures, collections, builders, beans, etc.
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Using Spring with NoSQL Databases
Mark Pollack and Chris Richardson discuss NoSQL, exemplifying with Redis, Cassandra and MongoDB, and Spring Data, a project meant to provide a unified programming model for accessing NoSQL DBs.
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BPM with REST
Cesare Pautasso discusses the conceptual relationship between business processes and stateful RESTful services, showing how BPM can be used to design and implement hypermedia-based services.
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QCon Keynote: Innovation at Google
Patrick Copeland presents the first three principles of the eXtreme innovation approach based on the Pretotyping Manifesto: Innovators Beat Ideas, Pretotypes Beat Productypes, and Data Beats Opinion.
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Hot Swapping Your Engines At 30,000 Feet
Rod Barlow talks about the architectural redesign of the Shopzilla.com website, sharing the solutions chosen over the old ones and the lessons learned while doing it.
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The Evolution of the Erlang VM
Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding recall the events leading to Erlang and its later evolution. They mention the Prolog interpreter, JAM, VEE, Strand88, OTP, TEAM, BEAM, and other technologies.
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The New Silos: Build Once, Deploy Anywhere?
Dr. Toufic Boubez discusses the status of cloud computing and the siloes being formed at the infrastructure level, emphasizing the need for enterprise mobility, and offering some mobility models.
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Mastering Spring MVC 3
Keith Donald presents the Spring MVC3 programming model, detailing with examples: mapping HTTP requests, binding requests/responses, rendering views, using data, handling exceptions and testing.
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Heresy & Heretical Open Source: A Heretic's Perspective
Douglas Crockford presents a debate existing around XML and JSON, and the negative effect of the Intellectual Property laws on open source software.
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F#: History, Today, Tomorrow
Don Syme discusses the history of F#, how it came about, the current status of the language, especially its simple model supporting parallel and asynchronous programming, and a preview of F# 3.0.
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Riak Core: Dynamo Building Blocks
Andy Gross discusses the design philosophy behind Riak based on Amazon Dynamo - Gossip Protocol, Consistent Hashing, Vector clocks, Read Repair, etc. -, overviewing its main features and architecture.
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