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Leapfrogging Online Payments & Burying Tech Debt
David Craelius tells the story of Klarna building an online payment system in Erlang and their approach to solving the nightmare of technical debt accumulated during a period of fast expansion.
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JavaScript as Data Processing Language & HTML5 Integration
Quentin Adam discusses the connections between NoSQL, data processing, message broking and JavaScript, and how one can quickly prototype with these tools.
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Cloud and Banking IT, Each Can Learn from the Other
Richard Croucher discusses the characteristics of banking and cloud IT systems, detailing on their strengths and weaknesses.
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Erlang and the Chasm
Torben Hoffmann looks at the status of Erlang using the technology life cycle lenses of Geofrey More and in particular discuss if Erlang is before, in or after the Chasm.
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Developing the FT Web App
Robert Shilston demoes an FT app, discussing: layout and interactions,native wrappers,testing and QA, and how to manage regular, reliable and successful deployments of an offline cached application.
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New Capabilities of HTML5 Browsers
Maximiliano Firtman overviews of what you need to know, including labs testing on progressive enhancement, feature detection and HTML5 APIs: UI, core, data, network and hardware.
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Yanking Business into Testing – with Lots of Vegetables
Gojko Adzic, Lukas Oberhuber discuss how the thinking around the role of tests and testing evolved, the problems the team faced and the decisions they took to overcome technical and cultural issues.
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Climbing Out of a Crisis Loop: How a Critical BBC Back-end Team Reigned in a Workflow Crisis-to-crisis Cycle
Rafiq Gemmail and Katherine Kirk tell the story of a BBC team which worked out of a severe crisis loop by bending the Agile 'rules' and combining multiple Agile and JFDI 'methods'.
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Between Fluffy Bunnies and Command & Control: Agile Adoption in Practice
Benjamin Mitchell shares experiences gained working with teams over the last five years, highlighting mistakes that were made following simplistic guidance and outlining key examples that worked.
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Accelerating Agile: Hyper-performing without the Hype
Dan North shares insight on how really high-performing teams work, the patterns and ideas being genuine experiences from practitioners. This is Agile in actuality. Agile is an attitude, not a rulebook
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People over Process: Applying It in Real World Software Development
Glen Ford shares from his technical experience in industry, and particularly from his learning at zeebox, Unibet and BBC R&D over the last few years - focusing on practical application.
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Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML
Jon Moore discusses the pros and cons using HTML for an API media type, as well as the particulars of implementation patterns, from representations to building programmatic HTML clients.