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The Functional Programming Concepts in Facebook's Mobile Apps
Adam Ernst shows how his team at Facebook encountered spiraling complexities and declining reliability and decided to make the shift to functional, in the data model and the view layer of News Feed.
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TestOps: Continuous Integration when Infrastructure is the Product
Barry Jaspan describes how they test Acquia Cloud, a large PaaS and DevOps project, and what they have learned over several years of developing those tests.
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The Business Value of IT in Today's Digital World
Joe Weinman, the author of Cloudonomics, argues that IT is the weapon of choice in today's global marketplace and increasingly digital world.
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Spike Lean Visual Design Directly into Your Live Style Guide
Ward Penney discusses a few tools, benefits and war stories surrounding Live Style Guides.
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Strategic Design: Embrace Imperfection!
Eric Evans shares approaches that have helped him with issues in architecture, with a focus on establishing boundaries between software with different conceptual approaches and discipline levels.
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Structure, Personalization, Scale: A Deep Dive into LinkedIn Search
The authors discuss some of the unique challenges they've faced delivering highly personalized search over semi-structured data at massive scale.
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SpiderMonkey Parser API: A Standard For Structured JS Representations
Michael Ficarra discusses the SpiderMonkey Parser API, evaluating its design and flaws, and showcasing some of the more useful and prominent projects that have adopted it.
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Scaling Gilt: from Monolithic Ruby Application to Distributed Scala Micro-Services Architecture
Yoni Goldberg describes some of the technological innovations that have helped Gilt to reach its current size, and highlight some of the core challenges that the company's engineering team faces.
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Solidifying the Cloud: How Google Backs up the Internet
Raymond Blum discusses some of the challenges, solutions and discarded alternatives in creating durable storage systems at Google scale.
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Scaling Foursquare: From Check-ins to Recommendations
Jon Hoffman discusses the general architecture, storage systems and development practices created to handle the ever increasing volume and complexity at Foursquare.
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Scaling Chartbeat from 8 Million Open Browsers to Realtime Analytics and Optimization
Wesley Chow presents Chartbeat's real-time analytics platform and how able to handle the requests in a cost efficient manner using a custom written analytics engine in C and Lua.
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Python: Why Are the Big Dealers Making Big Bets?
The authors demonstrate the design and use of an environment for quantitative researchers building a market risk simulation first as a basic system and then adding a hypothetical systemic shock.