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The Why, What and How of Open Data
Jeni Tennison explains how to evaluate an organization's data assets as potential sources of open data, and how to deal with the thorny issues of derived and personal data.
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Keynote: 8 Lines of Code
Greg Young discusses eight lines of very common code finding in them massive numbers of dependencies and difficulties, looking for ways to get rid of them.
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Dumb and Dumber: How smart is your monitoring data
Big Data is all the rage right now. Everyone from a social media company to your grandmother's online knitting store is suddenly a big data shop.
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The Future of Mobile Banking
Michael Nuciforo covers the recent history of mobile banking from SMS alerts to Java, then Web and Native apps. It highlights the major trends, key industry players, and consumer expectations.
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Put a UI Developer in a Bank; See What Happens
Horia Dragomir takes a look at how banks are improving their workflow for web based applications and how they have to support everything from the bleeding edge to the old IE browsers.
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How to Turn Startup Ideas into Reality by Taking Money from Strangers
Ian Brookes provides advice to startups on how to convince venture capitalists to invest in their business.
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Cloud Computing at Google
Randy Shoup details some of the pieces forming Google’s technology stack, BigTable, Megastore, Dremel, virtualization, etc. and the design principles of their their cloud-based applications.
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Sprints, Scala, Scale & Serendipity: Blue Sky Thinking and Washing the Pots on the Road to Success at a Technology Startup
Ian Brookes and Rob Strange recount the journey and relationship of a Tech start-up and its software development partner, with the milestones and millstones along the way.
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Racing Thru the Last Mile: Cloud Delivery Web-Scale Deployment
Alex Papadimoulis discusses various deployment strategies, scalable delivery, with examples from real-world organizations such as AllRecipes.com, Twitter, and Google.
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Extending Cloud Foundry with New Services
Andrew Crump and Chris Hedley discuss extending Cloud Foundry with your own services, including customization at deployment time, and common concerns such as security and user quotas.
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Large-Scale Continuous Testing in the Cloud
John Penix describes the test automation system and the supporting build system infrastructure used by Google.
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Quora on Mobile: A Product-Centered Approach to Multi-Platform Deployment
Anne Halsall reviews the nearly two-year process of designing, developing, and releasing the official mobile apps for Quora, sharing lessons and advice for creating apps across multiple platforms.