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How we Build Rock-solid Apps and Keep 100M+ Users Happy at Shazam
Giannakakis and Dalkitsis present how Shazam releases faster, more predictably and with more features by using BDD and automation testing, without slowing down or hindering the development process.
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Taking the Pain out of Real-time Mobile Back-end Development
Mandy Waite shows how to get started with Firebase before walking through a live demo of building a multi-user, collaborative mobile app that provides real-time updates to its users.
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Operating Microservices
Michael Brunton-Spall shows how DevOps-like patterns can be applied on microservices to give the development teams more responsibility for their choices, and much more.
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No Free Lunch, Indeed: Three Years of Microservices at SoundCloud
Phil Calcado shares the toolkit and strategy SoundCloud uses to keep its microservices explosion manageable, dealing with operations overhead, DevOps, breaking changes and asynchronous behaviors.
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Protocols of Interaction: Best Current Practices
Todd Montgomery describes some common problems that have arisen in protocol design, using examples such as HTTP/2, Aeron, etc., and how the solutions can be applied to microservices.
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Microservices: Software that Fits in Your Head
Dan North describes a model for thinking about the age of code and argues for replaceability as a first class concern, ending up with something that looks a lot like microservices.
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Java for Low Latency - You’ve Got to Be Joking!
John Davies walks through and demonstrates how to reduce latency while increasing throughput in applications, with demos using Java 8 and lambdas.
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Microservices Are (Conceptually) Too Big
Philip Wills believes that thinking about independent services and single responsibility applications rather than microservices can help to clarify the architectural complexity trade-offs.
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Reactive Android
Benjamin Augustin takes the practical approach of a complex API to explain how RxJava and Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) can be used on every project to make one's life easier.
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Electronic Trading in 2015: Faster or Smarter?
Annalisa Sarasini talks about how industry standards, open source, HTML5 and hosted services are today leveraged by leading buy and sell side firms when implementing single and cross asset solutions.
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Priming Java for Speed at Market Open
Gil Tene provides an overview of JIT compiler optimization techniques and their impact on common market-open slowdown scenarios.
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Spotify Audio Delivery at Scale
Niklas Gustavsson presents Spotify's 2-layer services, and how the UNIX philosophy of composing components that does a single thing well works on a greater scale.