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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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Modeling in a Cold Climate
Andrew Stewart investigates the causes for so many bad models, especially in the financial sector, created by various teams including Agile ones.
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Lessons Learned in Deploying PaaS
Colin Humphreys discusses PaaS: why they chose a certain PaaS solution for their customers, PaaS in ALM, lessons learned from their experiences and what to expect from different PaaS vendors.
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Runtime Analytics: Finding Out What Your Users Really Think of Your Software
Jonathan Allin suggests using runtime analytics to understand how users perceive your software, helping to improve the software development processes and speed up the release cycle.
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Crazy Fast Build Times or When 10 Seconds Starts to Make You Nervous
Daniel Worthington-Bodart presents ways to reduce the built times by a factor of 10.
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The Future Is Layered
Alex Russell discusses the state of web technologies, the internal tensions between specifying new features for a platform and its adoption, and what could be done to achieve a layered architecture.
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Agile Adoption is Fool's Gold (and other Stories from the Coal Face)
Rob Bowley shares lessons learned while doing Agile: Scrum is not that bad, Don’t call it Agile, Doing the right thing vs doing it right, Identify the change agents, Hire good people, etc.
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High Performance Network Applications in the Capital Markets
Todd Montgomery discusses messaging and how peer-to-peer messaging has changed capital markets, then takes a peek into its future pointing out that queuing is dead.