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Concurrent Programming Using The Disruptor
Trisha Gee introduces Disruptor, a concurrency framework based on a data structure – a ring buffer – that enables fast message passing in a parallel environment.
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Cloud Foundry: Design and Architecture
Derek Collison discusses the goals, the design premises and patterns employed in creating the architecture of Cloud Foundry, VMware’s open source PaaS, unveiling internal architectural details.
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Data, Be Like Water
Paul Sanford presents the transformations supported by data throughout its life cycle, and how that can be better done with Splunk, an engine for monitoring and analyzing machine-generated data.
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Amazon.com’s Journey to the Cloud
John Rauser presents the architectural and technological evolution of Amazon retail websites starting with 1994 and ending with adopting Amazon Web Services.
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Nothing Is Permanent Except Change - How Software Architects Can Embrace Change
Michael Stal discusses system architecture quality, how to avoid architectural erosion, how to deal with refactoring, and design principles for architecture evolution.
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Wink - Mobile Innovation
Jérôme Giraud introduces Wink Toolkit, an open source mobile JavaScript framework for HTML5 web or hybrid apps, showing widgets and interactions.
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HTML 5 Design and Development Tooling
Greg Wilson and Christophe Coenraets demo Adobe Edge, a motion and interaction tool, CSS Regions and Shaders, and PhoneGap.
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Do You Really Get classloaders?
Jevgeni Kabanov discusses the existing problems with Java class loaders and corresponding solutions, covering live code updates through process isolation and in-app updates.
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Machine Learning on Big Data for Personalized Internet Advertising
Michael Recce discusses how advertising works and what algorithms Quantcast uses to analyze large amounts of data in order to find out what people are interested in.
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Objects, Anomalies, and Actors: The Next Revolution
Steve Vinoski believes that actor-oriented languages such as Erlang are better prepared for the challenges of the future: cloud, multicore, high availability and fault tolerance.
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Quantum, Virtual Networks for OpenStack
Salvatore Orlando introduces OpenStack and Quantum, a project intended to provide network connectivity as a service, covering the current state and expected developments in the future.
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Grid Gain vs. Hadoop. Why Elephants Can't Fly
Dmitriy Setrakyan introduces GridGain, comparing it and outlining the cases where it is a better fit than Hadoop, accompanied by a live demo showing how to set up a GridGain job.