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Cooking on Gas: How to Use Chef to Get a Better Cloud Deal
Stephen Nelson-Smith discusses the idea of financial intermediation in cloud computing and explores how to use the Chef cloud automation framework to make it easy to move between cloud providers.
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Co-making Great Products
Jeff Patton presents the process of co-creating products, where everyone is involved and responsible, taking examples from three companies he’s worked with.
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Clouds in Government - Perils of Portability
Gareth Rushgrove emphasized the importance of cloud portability in a world of Infrastructure and Platform as a Service, offering examples taken from the development of GOV.UK.
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You Are Not a Software Developer! - Simplicity in Practice
Russ Miles shares the patterns and anti-patterns he's observed when teams attempt to really deliver valuable software, imparting principles and practices that guide him when helping teams deliver.
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Confessions of an Agile Addict
Ole Friis Østergaard discusses software development addictions: becoming aware of them, controlling them, getting rid of bad habits by admitting them and changing through practice.
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Web Development: You're Doing It Wrong
Stefan Tilkov challenges many commonly-held assumptions about how to best develop web applications, emphasizing the strengths and ideal roles for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP and URIs.
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Architecting for High Availability
Attila Narin discusses AWS concepts: Availability Zones, RDS Multi-AZ deployments, SQS and Auto Scaling, Elastic IP, load balancing, DNS, DynamoDB, Amazon S3, etc., and EC2 best practices.
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No Link Left Behind
Paul Downey explains what they did to redirect all traffic from DirectGov and Business Link to gov.uk, along with the tools, techniques and testing involved for the operation to succeed.
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Highly Available Near Real-time Data Distribution Beyond the Network Edge
Darach Ennis investigates data distribution biased for occasionally connected near-real-time data streaming in low fidelity environments with traditional messaging.
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The Java EE 7 Platform: Higher Productivity & Embracing HTML 5
Arun Gupta demoes some of the new features introduced or enhanced in Java EE 7: HTML5, JAX-RS 2, JMS 2, Batch Processing and Caching API, WebSocket, etc.
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Architecting for Continuous Delivery
John Esser and Russell Barnett discuss Ancestry.com’s SOA implementation capable of supporting continuous delivery, architectural standards used, and how continuous delivery works for them.
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Data Modeling for NoSQL
Tony Tam shares tips for modeling data with MongoDB for a fast and scalable system based on his experience migrating billions of records from MySQL to MongoDB.