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Deployed in 60 Minutes: Increasing Production Deployments from Six Months to Every Hour
Sponsored by Twilio. Matt Makai explores why deployments are difficult and shows solutions with case studies on how other organizations cut their production deployment times down from months to hours.
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10 Reasons Why Developers Hate Your API
John Musser takes a look at some of the common mistakes made by API providers, providing advice on what can be done to avoid them.
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The Game of Big Data: Scalable, Reliable Analytics Infrastructure at KIXEYE
Randy Shoup describes KIXEYE's analytics infrastructure from Kafka queues through Hadoop 2 to Hive and Redshift, built for flexibility, experimentation, iteration, testability, and reliability.
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Canonical Models for API Interoperability
Ted Epstein shows how a shared canonical model can make life easier for API consumers, while still allowing the flexibility to expose different services, with different contextual requirements.
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Living in the Matrix with Bytecode Manipulation
Sponsored by New Relic. Ashley Puls introduces three common byte code manipulation frameworks: ASM, CGLib, and Javassist, providing enough detail to get one started.
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The Next Wave of SQL-on-Hadoop: The Hadoop Data Warehouse
Marcel Kornacker presents a case study of an EDW built on Impala running on 45 nodes, reducing processing time from hours to seconds and consolidating multiple data sets into one single view.
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Evolving REST for an IoT World
Todd Montgomery explains using WebSocket and reactive programming in an event driven RESTful architecture for the emerging IoT world.
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Finding the Needle in a Big Data Haystack
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Cloudera, Eva Andreasson discusses how search and Hadoop can help with some of the industry's biggest challenges. She introduces the data hub concept.
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Continuous Improvement: Hell on Earth?
Katherine Kirk reflects through case study examples on what continuous improvement feels like on the ground and explores how it can be better by learning from other industries, research and real-life.
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Garbage Collection is Good!
Eva Andreasson has a fairly entertaining and yet painful presentation around garbage collection that will probably will end with more questions than answers.
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Interpreting the Unwritten Rules - or Are They Guidelines?
Shane Hastie presents examples of how the most innocent of question or suggestion can send teams into a spin, and suggests a number of techniques to help create an environment for real communication.
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Understanding Latency: Some Key Lessons & Tools
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Azul Systems, Gil Tene discusses pitfalls encountered in measuring and characterizing latency, and ways to address them using some new open source tools.