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Beating the Traffic Jam Using Embedded Devices, OPC-UA, Akka and NoSQL
Kristoffer Dyrkorn presents the experiences gained by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in building a new infrastructure for road traffic measurements.
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Wired to Connect - Creating Great Relationships Is Human Nature
Jenni Jepsen shares the neuroscience behind why human brain is wired to connect with others, and how to use that to delight customers and stakeholders every day.
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Docker Clustering - Batteries Included
Jessie Frazelle talks about which customer cases drove Docker clustering and describes the key technical decisions and code in the implementation.
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Continuous Delivery: Tools, Collaboration, and Conway's Law
Matthew Skelton shares his recent experience of helping many different organisations to evaluate and select tools to facilitate DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
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The Rationale for Continuous Delivery (The culture and practice of good software development)
Dave Farley discusses the problems raised by inefficient processes creating poor quality output, too late to capitalise on the expected business value, and proposes solutions to them.
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DevOps and the Need for Speed
Stephen Thair talks about organisations leveraging DevOps practices to deliver better software, faster and how they do it.
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Neuro-diversity and Agile
Sallyann Freudenberg takes some very different slants on the psychology of programming and explores how each of them might be better supported: cognitive, autistic, introverted / extraverted.
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A Taste of Random Decision Forests on Apache Spark
Sean Owen introduces Spark, Scala and random decision forests, and demonstrates the process of analyzing a real-world data set with them.
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Evolving a Data System
Simon Metson approaches the problem of evolving a data system; some patterns and anti-patterns both technical (polyglot systems, lambda architectures) and organisational (data silos, lava layers).
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Don’t Let Data Gravity Crush Your Infrastructure
Dave McCrory talks about what is Data Gravity, how it affects performance and portability and why these effects are amplified when there are larger volumes of data.
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How SoundCloud Uses Cassandra
Emily Green is taking a look at how SoundCloud uses Cassandra. She describes a couple of Cassandra instances, from the point of view of the products and functionality they support.
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Making Continuous Delivery Work for You: The Songkick Experience
Amy Phillips explains how the core principles can be used to drive process change and how their team removed many of the delays and frustrations from their release process.