InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Pouring Data on Troubled Markets - Quantitative Portfolio Management Technology at BGI
Eoin Woods explains how Barclays Global Investors (BGI) designed Apex to meet the challenges it faces and the Java technologies which were chosen for an architecture with variations on standard J2EE.
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Data Grid Design Patterns
Brian Oliver explains a number of data grid design patters: Command, Functor, Messaging, and Push Replication. He also mentions some traditional patterns used so far and Coherence Incubator.
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Thoughts on the Generic vs. Specific Tradeoff
Stefan Tilkov offers guidelines for the architect looking for a solution to his problem. Should it be a generic or a specific one? He compares several such solutions outlining the pros and cons.
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SpringOne/2GX 2009 Keynote
Rod Johnson covers the history of Spring, Spring 3.0, Spring Integration, Groovy, Grails, tc Server, Spring Insight, SpringSource Tool Suite, the VMWare acquisition and the Enterprise Java Cloud.
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Lean & Mean Tokyo Cabinet Recipes
In this FutureRuby talk, Ilya Grigorik explores Tokyo Cabinet's features such as the key-value store, ordered traversal, attribute search, schemaless data structures,indexing, and scripting with Lua.
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Agile Project Metrics
The presentation shows how to project realistic completion dates based on empirical observations based on Velocity for iterative methods and on Cumulative Flow for non-iterative methods.
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Systems that Never Stop (and Erlang)
Joe Armstrong on 6 reliability laws, Isolation, Concurrency, Failure Detection, Fault Identification, Live Code Upgrade, Stable Storage, showing how they are respected in Erlang, plus some examples.
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Real-life SOA
Based on real-life cases, Michael Poulin shows how to use 7 service oriented principles to handle service behavior in the execution context and UI changes, and how to prepare for unexpected changes.
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Simplifying Java EE with Grails
Graeme Rocher introduces Groovy and its corresponding web framework, Grails, followed by a code writing demo intended to highlight the advantages of using Grails over Java EE for web applications.
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Agile Distributed Development Done Right Using Fully Distributed Scrum
This talk discusses a number of patterns common for setting up Agile Distributed Development and will show the results that can be achieved once you get into a good Fully Distributed Scrum.
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Functional Programming with a Mainstream Language
Sadek Drobi shows how he applied functional programming principles, like recursion, functions, monads, to a real-life project which needed to meet certain performance requirements.
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Controlling Your Architecture
Magnus Robertsson shows how to control the code architecture to avoid an architectural drift leading to a big-ball-of-mud: peer review, code analysis, and zero tolerance to warnings and errors.