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Architecting Visa for Massive Scale and Continuous Innovation
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Summary
John Davies examines Visa’s architecture and shows how major enterprises have architected very complex integrations incorporating Hadoop, memcached, Ruby on Rails, and many others to deliver innovative technology solutions. John explains how the platform architecture and technologies -- integrated and invented -- must be reliable and able to massively scale.
Bio
John Davies is co-founder and CTO of Incept5 and has been intimately involved in implementing Visa's new capabilities. He was previously chief architect at JP Morgan and BNP Paribas, co-founder of C24 (sold to Iona) and technical director at Progress Software. John has co-authored of several enterprise Java and architecture books and is a frequent speaker at banking and technology conferences.
About the conference
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Feb 06, 2012
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Excellent talk
by Robert Sullivan,
Excellent talk
by Robert Sullivan,
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John Davies is a lively and interesting speaker, this is very much worth watching. I do believe the transaction processing code, that achieved 3,000 transactions per second, was originally in C++, but it seems that has now changed to Java, according to the talk.