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Cloud and Banking IT, Each Can Learn from the Other
Richard Croucher discusses the characteristics of banking and cloud IT systems, detailing on their strengths and weaknesses.
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Erlang and the Chasm
Torben Hoffmann looks at the status of Erlang using the technology life cycle lenses of Geofrey More and in particular discuss if Erlang is before, in or after the Chasm.
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User Experience-driven Architecture
Praful J Todkar and Cassandra Shum share their experience ending up with an architecture for a mobile application whose development was driven by user experience.
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Java Concurrent Animated
Victor Grazi presents the functionality of the components in the java.util.concurrent library through a series of animations implemented with the respective concurrent methods.
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Developing the FT Web App
Robert Shilston demoes an FT app, discussing: layout and interactions,native wrappers,testing and QA, and how to manage regular, reliable and successful deployments of an offline cached application.
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New Capabilities of HTML5 Browsers
Maximiliano Firtman overviews of what you need to know, including labs testing on progressive enhancement, feature detection and HTML5 APIs: UI, core, data, network and hardware.
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Yanking Business into Testing – with Lots of Vegetables
Gojko Adzic, Lukas Oberhuber discuss how the thinking around the role of tests and testing evolved, the problems the team faced and the decisions they took to overcome technical and cultural issues.
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Decomposing Twitter: Adventures in Service-Oriented Architecture
Jeremy Cloud discusses SOA at Twitter, approaches taken for maintaining high levels of concurrency, and briefly touches on some functional design patterns used to manage code complexity.
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E Pluribus Unum: A Survey of Multi-paradigm Programming
Paul Snively outlines the benefits of programming with multi-paradigm languages such as Scala, C++ or OCaml.
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Lessons from Building and Scaling LinkedIn
Jay Kreps discusses the evolution of LinkedIn's architecture and lessons learned scaling from a monolithic application to a distributed set of services, from one database to distributed data stores.
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Can Technology Innovation Save The New York Times?
Marc Frons discusses the New York Times’ digital subscription model. Rajiv Pant shares their experiences transitioning to continuous delivery, and using NodeJS, Scala, cloud and big data.
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Facebook Messages: Backup & Replication Systems on HBase
Nicolas Spiegelberg discusses Facebook Messages built on top of HBase, the systems involved and the scaling challenges for handling 500TB of new data per month.