InfoQ Homepage QCon London 2013 Content on InfoQ
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Stephen Nelson-Smith on cloud computing being a tradable commodity
Stephen Nelson-Smith, CTO of Strategic Blue, explains why cloud computing has become a commodity and the financial and technical advantages as well as risks of trading cloud providers.
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Chris Matts on BDD, Feature Injection and Commitment
Chris Matts was interviewed at QCon London. He discusses behavior driven development, feature injection and his latest project - a graphic novel written with Olav Maassen and Chris Geary explaining the principles of real options in a project using a compelling story and an unusual format.
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Martin Thompson on Low Latency Coding and Mechanical Sympathy
Martin Thompson discusses how an understanding of the hardware is central to the creation of high-performance software even when using platform independent languages like Java.
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Interview with Graham Lee on the Discworld App
Graham Lee talks to InfoQ at QCon London 2013 about the creation of the Discworld app, and how the media-rich application benefited from automated testing and performance optimisations to be performant on retina class iPads.
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Alex Papadimoulis on Delivering Web Scale Systems
Alex Papadimoulis shares his thoughts on distribution vs delivery, decoupling infrastructure (pull) from application (push) deployments and keeping delivery systems simple, especially for web scale applications. In particular Alex describes three different types of roll-outs: Live, Rolling and Parallel and their applicability (cloud-based delivery vs in-house servers).
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Interview with IBM's Alasdair Nottingham on the WebSphere Liberty Profile
Alasdair Nottingham discusses the WebSphere Liberty profile and how it and the full profile make use of the OSGI subsystem spec and Enterprise OSGi.
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Darach Ennis on CEP, Stream Processing, Messaging, OOP vs Functional Architecture
Darach Ennis explains the lessons learned from the Complex Event Processing community, reactive programming, the challenges of messaging on mobile platforms, OOP vs Functional and much more.
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Gareth Rushgrove shares his experience at Gov.UK and how to tame cloud computing
Gareth Rushgrove on what's driving UK Government's adoption of cloud computing and the challenges posed by such endeavor. He also shares his view on navigating through multiple cloud provider solutions and their jargon.
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Ben Christensen on Resilience at Netflix with Hystrix, Reactive Programming for the JVM with RxJava
Ben Christensen explains how Netflix manages to stay online even with millions of users, the Hystrix fault tolerance library, how Netflix discovered reactive programming and why it ported Rx to Java.
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Martijn Verburg Talks About jClarity, Adopt a JSR and Java Security
Martijn Verburg discusses his new start-up jClarity, which offers performance tooling for the Cloud. He also provides an update on the Adopt a JSR and Adopt OpenJDK programs.
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Simon Peyton Jones on Teaching Computer Science to Kids with the Computing At School Initiative
Simon Peyton Jones explains the Computing At School initiative which aims to introduce Computer Science as a discipline in schools, how to explain the ideas behind algorithms to kids and much more.
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Gojko Adzic on integrating business iterative delivery using Impact Mapping
Gojko Adzic talks about the need to iterate and learn about business value before jumping into solutions. Impact Mapping helps visualize and learn which behavior changes impact business results. Those changes might not even require any kind of software delivery.
