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Platform Choices on Windows Azure (It’s not just ASP.NET and SQL Server)
Mark Rendle introduces the basic services offered by Windows Azure along with examples of various platform choices that can be used: RavenDB, ASP.NET MVC, Node.js + Express, MongoDB, Sinatra, etc.
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Architecture at Scale at ESPN
Manny Pelarinos presents ESPN’s overall and core service architecture, the data ingest process, the custom CMS and template language used, and how live scores and personalization work.
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Riding the (Apache) Camel into the Cloud
James Strachan introduces Apache Camel, explaining how to use it along with Fuse Fabric to implement enterprise integration patterns in the cloud.
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Acceleration in the Wild with Dataflow Computing
James Spooner discusses the need to make good use of the underlying silicon using Dataflow computing and parallelism to improve throughput and latency for optimized data processing performance.
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Polyfilling The HTML5 Gaps With JavaScript
Addy Osmani introduces polyfills, JavaScript shims that can be used to simulate HTML5 functionality in older browsers such as IE 6-8. He explains how to write new polyfills.
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How AppFog Built a PaaS around CloudFoundry
Jeremy Voorhis introduces PaaS and CloudFoundry, then explains how AppFog built their own PaaS on top of CloudFoundry.
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Big Data Architectures at Facebook
Ashish Thusoo presents the data scalability issues at Facebook and the data architecture evolution from EDW to Hadoop to Puma.
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Extreme FIX Messaging for Low-Latency
Kevin Houstoun and Rupert Smith discuss the creation of Java and .NET libraries for a FIX Protocol implementation without generating garbage in order to avoid the latency spikes associated with GC.
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Taming JavaScript with Cloud9 IDE: a Tale of Tree Hugging
Zef Hemel introduces the Cloud9 JavaScript IDE, especially the static analysis library including inline error and warning highlighting, the rename refactoring and code completion.
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Retrospectives: A Bit of Ceremony Can Be Useful
Aino Corry argues for retrospectives, emphasizing their importance and providing advice on creating useful reflections on past activities.
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Build Trust in Your Build-to-Deployment Flow!
Baruch Sadogursky demonstrates automated building techniques using Maven/Gradle/Custom scripts and Binary Repository along with common pitfalls that are to be avoided.
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Panel: PaaS - Present and Future
Mark Rendle, Adrian Cockcroft, Chris Richardson, Colin Humphreys, Jeremy Voorhis and Paul Freemantle discuss the state of PaaS, its benefits and drawbacks, and the road ahead.
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