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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.
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Climbing Out of a Crisis Loop: How a Critical BBC Back-end Team Reigned in a Workflow Crisis-to-crisis Cycle
Rafiq Gemmail and Katherine Kirk tell the story of a BBC team which worked out of a severe crisis loop by bending the Agile 'rules' and combining multiple Agile and JFDI 'methods'.
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Surviving in a Feudal Security World
Bruce Schneier puts security in the context of today's allegiance to cloud and SaaS providers, the recent news about PRISM and the lack of privacy for us as citizens.
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Between Fluffy Bunnies and Command & Control: Agile Adoption in Practice
Benjamin Mitchell shares experiences gained working with teams over the last five years, highlighting mistakes that were made following simplistic guidance and outlining key examples that worked.
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