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Keeping Agile Agile
Dan North argues organizations need to continuously innovate, finding new ways and practices to develop software by looking at the motivations behind Agile practices and not just implementing them.
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QCon Keynote: Forty Years of Fun with Computers
Dan Ingalls presents his journey through the world of software developing a number of core technologies over the last forty years, explaining what brought them forth and why they are fun even today.
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RESTful SOA or Domain-Driven Design - A Compromise?
Vaughn Vernon advocates using DDD’s strategic modeling patterns when integrating services in a RESTful SOA implementation, avoiding one of SOA’s pitfalls: focusing on services rather than the domain.
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NoSQL at Twitter
Ryan King presents how Twitter uses NoSQL technologies - Gizzard, Cassandra, Hadoop, Redis - to deal with increasing data amounts forcing them to scale out beyond what the traditional SQL has to offer
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The Problem(s) with the Browser
Collin Jackson discusses ways to enforce browser session security against threats such as Cross-Site Request Forgery and various network attacks by using Local Storage and Strict Transport Security.
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Clojure-Java Interop: A Better Java than Java
Stuart Dabbs Halloway reviews Clojure’s syntax and explains how Clojure-Java interop works. He then talks about simplicity, attempting to prove that Clojure is a simpler and better language than Java.
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Continuous Deployment to Production 50 Times a Day
Eishay Smith discusses the advantages of using continuous deployment (CD) at a rapid pace, dozens of times a day, the process and the tools needed to attain CD, and practices to ensure code quality.
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Hacking Your Organization
Lloyd Taylor talks about different types of organizational culture, how to understand the culture one is in, what to do to be successful in the respective organization, and how to prepare for change.
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The Role of Hypermedia and the Future of Web Integration
Guilherme Silveira considers that RESTful web services need to make use of hypermedia in order to be prepared for web integration. He shows how links can be used to create more decoupled services.
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Node.js: Asynchronous Purity Leads to Faster Development
Ryan Dahl demonstrates how to use Node.js’ asynchronous IO model to write simple HTTP servers that scale up serving thousands of connections while using a very low memory footprint and few CPU cycles.
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Large Scale Map-Reduce Data Processing at Quantcast
Ron Bodkin presents the architecture used by Quantcast to process 100s of TB of data daily using Hadoop on dedicated systems, the applications, the type of data processed, and the infrastructure used.
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Netflix in the Cloud
Adrian Cockcroft discusses the advantages of running Netflix on AWS, comparing the old data center solution against the new cloud architecture, the current implementation and plans for the future.
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