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Node.js: Asynchronous I/O for Fun and Profit
Stefan Tilkov presents what asynchronous I/O means and how it can be performed on servers and web clients using Node.js and other JavaScript tools and libraries.
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Getting Things Done with REST
Ian Robinson discusses how to implement a hypermedia-driven web application and how to test its workflow giving as example a RESTful web service he built on top of Microsoft’s Web API.
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Single Page Apps and the Future of History
Michael Mahemoff discusses how HTML5 can be used to create single page web apps offering advice to create a better user experience, built-in accessibility and better SEO results.
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Why I Chose MongoDB for guardian.co.uk
Mat Wall makes a journey through Guardian’s online history, outlining technologies used – Perl/CGI, CMS, J2EE, Oracle-, and explaining why they chose a NoSQL solution – MongoDB - and its advantages.
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Deliberate Practice
Jon Jagger on achieving expertise through deliberate practice, a process of doing new things or old ones but with a new approach, leading to improved technical agility through increased self awareness
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Things Break, Riak Bends
Justin Sheehy talks about failure and the need to prepare for it, giving some real life examples along with techniques implemented in Riak to make it resilient to faults.
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Events Are Not Just for Notifications
Greg Young discusses how to use events to store data, and how testing, versioning and performance are impacted by an event-centered model.
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Big Data in Real Time at Twitter
Nick Kallen discusses how Twitter handles large amounts of data in real time by creating 4 data types and query patterns -tweets, timelines, social graphs, search indices-, and the DBs storing them.
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A True Conversational Web
Robert Virding discusses conversational web services and how Erlang can provide the necessary tools to write 2-way conversational applications using WebSockets.
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Java without the GC Pauses: Keeping Up with Moore’s Law and Living in a Virtualized World
Gil Tene presents current trends in application memory, the problems with garbage collectors along with some related metrics, and how can Java prosper in a virtual world.
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Building Systems with REST
Glenn Block presents how developers can build RESTful solutions using Microsoft’s technologies, especially with WCF and .NET.
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Testing for the Unexpected
Ulf Wiger discusses the importance of automated testing along with some lessons learned at Ericsson, including using randomized and extensive testing, aiming to achieve system robustness.
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