InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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When Working Software Is Not Enough: A Story of Project Failure
In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Mitch Lacey talks about a real life project that was on the verge of being successful, but was deemed as unsuccessful by the customer.
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An Architecture's Response to Growth and Change
Brian Zimmer unveils Orbitz.com’s architecture and its evolution over the years as the site grew from a US domestic flights booking website to an international one offering multiple services.
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Deployment Monoculture
In this talk from RubyFringe, Dan Grigsby talks about trying out many different ideas before turning one into a startup.
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Prioritizing Your Product Backlog
Choosing the right features can make the difference between success and failure. Mike Cohn presented 'Prioritizing your Project Backlog' on how to organize/prioritize a project backlog.
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Advanced Threat Modeling
John Steven talks about modeling security threats as a way to secure a system while designing its architecture. John focuses on authentication, authorization and session management.
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Agile in Practice: What Is Actually Going On Out There?
Scott Ambler talks about actual data resulting from surveys made during 2006-2008, showing how Agile is perceived and implemented within organizations.
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Building Smart Windows Applications
From QCon 2008, Daniel Moth presents on using Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 to create compelling rich Windows applications.
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Ruby Beyond Rails
John Lam talks about his path to dynamic languages, some of the problems of making IronRuby run fast, and how the DLR helps with implementing languages.
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Architectures of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems
Can a system that is so large it cannot be comprehended be "designed" in a conventional sense? The foundations of computing are about to change. In this talk, Richard P. Gabriel explores why and how.
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Agile and Beyond - The Power of Aspirational Teams
Tim Mackinnon talks about the aspirations behind the Agile principles and practices, the desire to become efficient, to write quality code which does not end up being thrown away.
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Concurrency: Past and Present
Brian Goetz discusses the difficulties of creating multithreaded programs correctly, incorrect synchronization, race conditions, deadlock, STM, concurrency, alternatives to threads, Erlang, Scala.
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Future Directions for Agile
David Anderson talks about the history of Agile, the current status of it and his vision for the future. The role of Agile consists in finding ways to implement its principles.
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