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Dynamo: Theme and Variations
Shanley Kane discusses Dynamo - consistent hashing, vector clocks, hinted handoff, gossip protocol - advances in each area, and how querying and application development has changed as a result of them
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Integrating SQL & NoSQL & NewSQL & Realtime Data Intelligence for the Financial Industry
Charles Cai, Ashwani Roy discuss a robust, cost effective, hypothetical solution to address extreme challenges in financial institutions, from decision making support to pricing and risk management.
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The Past, Present, and Future of NoSQL
Matt Asay outlines the reasons for NoSQL's existence and persistence, and will identify the trends that point to a bright future for post-relational databases.
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A Little Graph Theory for the Busy Developer
Jim Webber explores graph data analytic techniques using social graph properties inspired by anthropology and sociology, extracting online business intelligence from graph matching.
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MongoDB Large-scale Data Centric Architectures
Kenny Gorman provides advice on designing systems using MongoDB in order to avoid some of the pitfalls lurking along the way.
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Architectural Patterns for High Availability
Adrian Cockcroft presents Netflix globally distributed architecture, the benchmarks used, scalability issues, and the open source components their implementation is based upon.
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PHP on the Metal with HHVM
Keith Adams shares details on building HHVM, a PHP VM built by Facebook, along with lessons learned doing it and tuning it for high performance.
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Testing iOS Apps
Graham Lee discusses strategies and tools for testing iOS apps with a view to uncovering hidden security and usability issues.
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How NOT to Measure Latency
Gil Tene introduces and demonstrates how simple and recently open sourced tools can be used to improve and gain higher confidence in both latency measurement and reporting.
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Timelines at Scale
Raffi Krikorian explains the architecture used by Twitter to deal with thousands of events per sec - tweets, social graph mutations, and direct messages-.
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Lock-Free Algorithms For Ultimate Performance
Martin Thompson discusses the need to measure what’s going on at the hardware level in order to be able to create high performing lock-free algorithms.
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In-Memory Message & Trade Repositories
John Davies walks through a reference implementation of a in-memory database meant to combine dozens of different legacy databases developed by banks over time.