InfoQ Homepage QCon Software Development Conference Content on InfoQ
-
Retrospectives: A Bit of Ceremony Can Be Useful
Aino Corry’s message is that if we skip retrospectives there will be problems that we don’t understand where they come from nor what to do to solve them.
/presentations/Retrospectives-A-Bit-of-Ceremony-Can-Be-Useful/en/smallimage/Aino.JPG)
-
Architecting for Failure at the Guardian.co.uk
Michael Brunton-Spall talks about various types of system failure that can happen, sharing the lessons learned at the Guardian and measures taken to prevent and mitigate failure.
/presentations/Architecting-for-Failure-at-the-Guardian/en/smallimage/Michael.JPG)
-
Decisions, Decisions
Dan North engages the audience into a discussion about the tradeoffs involved in making decisions regarding the team composition, development style, architecture, and deployment solutions.
/presentations/Decisions-Decisions/en/smallimage/Dan.JPG)
-
Timelines @ Twitter
Arya Asemanfar presents Twitter’s timeline architecture, the entire sequence of steps a tweet goes through until it reaches the timeline of each user following the person who tweeted.
/presentations/Timelines-Twitter/en/smallimage/Arya.JPG)
-
Resilient Response In Complex Systems
John Allspaw discusses pitfalls to be avoided while troubleshooting failed systems, comparing web operations at scale with practices in aviation and nuclear power industries.
/presentations/Resilient-Response-In-Complex-Systems/en/smallimage/John.JPG)
-
Building Highly Available Systems in Erlang
Joe Armstrong discusses highly available (HA) systems, introducing different types of HA systems and data, HA architecture and algorithms, 6 rules of HA, and how HA is done with Erlang.
/presentations/Building-Highly-Available-Systems-in-Erlang/en/smallimage/Joe.JPG)
-
Building a Great Web API
Evan Cooke discussing ways of building Simple APIs with fast signup, a clear value proposition, efficient quick start, concise documentation, easy authentication and debuggable.
/presentations/Building-a-Great-Web-API/en/smallimage/Evan.JPG)
-
Building Offline Access to Websites Using HTML5
Israel Hilerio presents how to cache data locally with HTML5 technologies: IndexedDB, App Cache, DOM Storage and File API.
/presentations/Building-Offline-Access-to-Websites-Using-HTML5/en/smallimage/Israel.JPG)
-
The Evolving Panorama of Data
Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons discuss how data has changed over the years, what is IT’s response to this change, and how data is used by organizations these days.
/presentations/The-Evolving-Panorama-of-Data/en/smallimage/picpoc.jpg)
-
Lean Startup: Why It Rocks Far More Than Agile Development
Joshua Kerievsky discusses Lean Startup -a disciplined, scientific and capital efficient method for discovering and building products and services that people love-, comparing it with Agile.
/presentations/Lean-Startup/en/smallimage/Josh.JPG)
-
Keeping Movies Running Amid Thunderstorms!
Siddharth Anand presents how Netflix’s architecture evolved from a traditional 3-tier configuration to a cloud-based one, detailing the scalability and fault tolerant issues encountered.
/presentations/Keeping-Movies-Running-Amid-Thunderstorms/en/smallimage/Sid.JPG)
-
Everything I Ever Learned about JVM Performance Tuning @twitter
Attila Szegedi shares lessons learned tuning the JVM at Twitter, spending most of his talk discussing memory tuning, CPU usage tuning, and lock contention tuning.
/presentations/JVM-Performance-Tuning-twitter-QCon-London-2012/en/smallimage/Ati.JPG)