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Asynchronous Programming on the Server and the Client in F#
Tomas Petricek demoes server-side and client-side asynchronous programming with non-blocking code and without inversion of control in F#.
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Hadoop: Scalable Infrastructure for Big Data
Parand Tony Darugar overviews Hadoop, its processing model, the associated ecosystem and tools, discussing some real-life uses of Hadoop for analyzing and processing large amounts of data.
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Caching, NoSQL & Grids - What the Banks Can Teach Us
John Davies shares insight into SQL, NoSQL, grid, virtualization and caching technologies from his personal experience using them in financial institutions.
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Anarchy, Cooperation and the Bazaar
Ola Bini discusses using open source in distributed teams from a sociological, political, and organizational point of view, providing some lessons useful in daily development.
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Connecting Millions of Mobile Devices to the Cloud
Damien Katz explains how Couchbase Syncpoint provides real time data synchronization capabilities between multiple mobile devices and the cloud.
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AIR Matters
Kevin Korngut introduces Adobe AIR, a cross-platform runtime environment for desktop and mobile applications.
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Scalable Internet Architectures
Theo Schlossnagle presents several architectural design principles useful for building scalable systems starting from the networking up to the application layer.
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Introducing Calabash - Automated Functional Testing for Mobile Native Apps
Karl Krukow discusses the importance of automated functional testing of native mobile applications, suggesting using Calabash –a Cucumber-like tool- and LessPainful –an online testing service-.
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Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with HTML, JavaScript and PhoneGap
Christophe Coenraets discusses strategies for creating large JavaScript MVC apps, and using PhoneGap for accessing native device capabilities and for packaging HTML apps.
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Ain’t No Cure for the Distributed Blues
Dan North shares his experience in a new endeavor working for a trading company with distributed teams embracing ideas from Lean and Theory of Constraints.
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Working with MIG
David Dawson and Marcus Kern share lessons learned creating a high-performance mass audience participation system using NoSQL.
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Scala: Simplifying Development at guardian.co.uk
Graham Tackley shares the lessons learned running The Guardian website on Java, and why they decided to switch to Scala and how it helps them.