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Here Comes Wearable Technology!
Rain Ashford discusses how wearable technology has emerged from its early roots in cybernetics and sci-fi and how projects are developing outside the current bubble of media hyperbole.
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Approximate Methods for Scalable Data Mining
Andrew Clegg overviews methods and provides use cases for performing data sets operations like membership testing, distinct counts, and nearest-neighbour finding more efficiently.
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The Code that Isn't There
Scott Vokes presents some lesser-known data structures and shows how probability distributions and content-addressable storage can become tools to shape global system behavior.
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Screwing Up For Less
Stephen Hardisty presents how Etsy delivers products without having project managers, business analysts, or testers.
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The Assassin's Mindset: Identifying Assumptions to De-Risk Your Idea
Giff Constable shares 4 tactics for thinking holistically about an idea and clearly identifying, prioritizing and tackling assumptions.
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Data Science of Love
Vaclav Petricek digs some of the romantic interactions nuggets hidden in eHarmony's large collection of human relationships.
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Leveraging Your Hadoop Cluster Better - Running Performant Code at Scale
Michael Kopp explains how to run performance code at scale with Hadoop and how to analyze and optimize Hadoop jobs.
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The Technology behind an Equity Trade
John O’Hara discusses banking business and technology integration, covering: low-latency, high-frequency trading, in-memory caches, multi-terabyte time-series databases, and contracts in NoSQL stores.
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Consumerization - What Does It Mean to a Developer?
Chris Swan discusses user experience for banking and financial mobile applications, architectures, and the frameworks and containers that ease the way to secure deployment into production.
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Equity – Transparent and Live Risk Assessment
Tormod Varhaugvik provides a design and rationale for an In Memory and Big Data architecture for live equity and risk assessment, using Tax Norway’ new architecture as an example.
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Lessons Learned Building Storm
Nathan Marz shares lessons learned building Storm, an open-source, distributed, real-time computation system.
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Designing for Engagement
Jaimee Newberry shares considerations in on-boarding, designing and copywriting to help apps become more fun, delightful and engaging experiences for users.