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Ian Robinson discusses Service Evolution and Neo4J Feature Design
Ian Robinson discusses Neo4J's design choices for data storage and retrieval, CRUD operations, transactions, graph traversal and searches and HA deployment strategies. He also shares his thoughts on hypermedia controls and the concept of consumer driven contracts for continuous evolution of services.
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Adrian Cockcroft on Architecture for the Cloud
In this interview we talk with Adrian Cockcroft, the architect for Netflix’s cloud systems team. We discuss how Netflix combines 300 loosely coupled services across 10,000 machines. An interesting revelation is that they fully embrace continuous delivery and each team is allowed to deploy new versions of their service whenever they want.
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Enda McGrath on Cross-Platform JavaScript Application Development with Enyo
Enda talks about the challenges his team faced while developing the Enyo framework. He also gives an overview of how it works and how it aims to help developers deliver apps across different devices.
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Rich Hickey on Datomic, CAP and ACID
Rich Hickey explains the basics of Datomic, its approach to transactions and query, Datalog, CAP, ACID and BASE, and much more.
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The Rise of DevOps with Jesse Robbins
Jesse Robbins of Opscode discusses how the concept of deploying, maintaining, and updating a software solution has begun to evolve into the concept of DevOps. This new player in the development landscape blurs the lines betwee Development and Operations teams and creates a new practice of Infrastructure as Code.
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Bob Lee on Java's Future, Lambdas, DI with Guice vs Dagger, Java and Ruby at Square
Bob Lee explains the popularity of Java, future language features like Lambdas, DI with Guice vs. the Dagger framework, the role of Java vs. Ruby at Square, hiring at Square, security and much more.
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Eric Evans and Brian Foote discuss the state of Software Design
Eric Evans (Creator of Domain-Driven Design), and Brian Foote (Big Ball of Mud, Patterns Languages of Program Design), discuss the current state of software design, reminisce about the Small talk good old days, explain patterns from Domain-Driven Design, UML, Big Balls of Mud, and more.
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Robert Greene on Versant's Java NoSQL Solution and JPA 2.0 Support
In this interview recorded at QCon New York 2012 Conference, Robert Greene from Versant Corporation discusses Versant's NoSQL database and their JPA 2.0 compliant Java NoSQL solution. He also talked about transparency of data access across the physical nodes when using NoSQL databases.
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James Spooner on Data Flow Parallelism and Hardware Acceleration
James Spooner explains how Data Flow Parallelism works and how it helps to design efficient parallel algorithms. Also: OOP vs. Parallelism.
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Operating Node.js in Production, with Bryan Cantrill
Bryan talks about the challenges of operating Node.js in real production environments and the experiences he had working with it at Joyent. He also talks about DTrace, SmartOS, V8 and compares with other platforms.
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SocketIO and Node.js, with Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch, creator of SocketIO talks about how it delivers HTML5 WebSocket functionality in a cross-browser fashion. He also talks about effective development with Node.js and JavaScript in general.
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Aino Corry on Agile Retrospectives
Aino Corry discusses various aspects of Agile Retrospectives: how to get them accepted, core principles, length, frequency, structure, techniques for handling problems, and much more.
