InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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A couple of ways to skin an Internet-scale cat
Jim Webber explains the core concepts of message-oriented and resource-oriented web services, expresses his thorough dislike of WSDL, and shows an example of a RESTful workflow.
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Rockstar Memcaching
In this presentation from RubyFringe, Tobias Lütke talks about memcached, the widely used caching solution. Tobias explains how to use it and gives some practical tips on what not to do.
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Real-Time Java for Latency Critical Banking Applications
Bertrand Delsart discusses real-time (RT) computing requirements in banking, RT Java history, priority semantics, RT APIs, RT Garbage Collection, soft vs. hard RT, and benefits of RT Java.
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Architecting for Latency
Dan Pritchett addresses latency issues in web applications that should be dealt with from the beginning when the system is designed.
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Planning with a Large Distributed Team
Williams and Stout share their recent experience with a large distributed team, the planning hurdles they encountered and how they passed them, and their recommendation: avoid large distributed teams.
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The Lego Hypothesis
For decades, software engineering has "dreamed an impossible dream", to build software as easily as building Lego houses. In this talk, James Noble imagines a world where the dream has been realized.
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Diary of a Fence Sitting SOA Geek
In this presentation, Mark Little explains the history of SOAP/WSDL/WS-*-based web services and RESTful HTTP and highlights how the two approaches might converge into a single solution.
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Measuring Agile in the Enterprise: 5 Success Factors for Large-Scale Agile Adoption
Michael Mah analyzes the development process in 5 companies: 2 Agile (one of them BMC) and 3 classic. He presents the factors which contributed to the success of BMC's Agile adoption.
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Shaw and Fowler About Forging a New Alliance
Shaw and Fowler talk about the need for a new relationship between the business department and the IT department. Studies have shown that projects mostly fail due to miscommunication between the two.
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Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator
Eccentric artist turned overnight anti-celebrity, Giles Bowkett captures the heart and soul of RubyFringe as he demonstrates his revolutionary Archaeopteryx MIDI drum pattern generator.
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Fostering Software Craftsmanship in a Corporate Setting
Scott talks about software craftsmanship represented by people responsible for their work, continuously learning, taking pride in their work, sharing knowledge and respecting professional standards.
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Eric Nelson on Windows as a Web Platform
Eric Nelson explores Windows as a web platform using IIS 7.0 providing an architecture deep dive and striving to reduce the lines of code in web applications.
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