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Yes, SQL!
Uri Cohen reviews SQL and distributed data stores, presenting how various API’s – memcached, SQL/JDBC, JPA - can be used to interact with such data stores, specifying what jobs they are best used for.
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LMAX - How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency
Martin Thompson and Michael Barker talk about building a HPC financial system handling over 100K tps at less than 1ms latency by having a new approach to infrastructure and software.
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Using REST for SOA
Stefan Tilkov makes a case for using REST for SOA showing how to implement tricky features like encapsulation, transactions, stateful communication, notifications, and security at the enterprise level
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Abstractions at Scale–Our Experiences at Twitter
Marius Eriksen considers that leaky abstractions lead to scalability issues, while those providing narrow access to explicit resources - map-reduce, shared-nothing web apps, big table - scale better.
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Development at the Speed and Scale of Google
Ashish Kumar on how Google keeps the source code of over 2000 projects in a single code trunk containing 100s of M of code lines, with more than 5,000 developers accessing the same repository.
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Architecting the Ultimate Control-Point-Advanced Cyber-Threat Mitigation
Blake Dournaee presents Intel’s Service Gateway, a security control point meant to secure on-premise and in the cloud .NET/Java-based web services from various security threats.
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Scaling Australia's Most Popular Online News Sites with Ehcache
A real-world experience of implementing Ehcache at Australia's most visited online news site. How to deal with high traffic, concurrency, and how to implement linear scalability.
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Scaling Up by Scaling Down: Successful Agile Adoption in the Large by Focusing on the Individual
Amr Elssamadisy focuses on the individual and his responsibility to make things work in the team regarding the learning process, communication, dealing with upsets, ownership, and responsibility.
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Raising the Bar: Super Optimizing Your Agile Implementation Using Kanban and Lean
Jesper Boeg and Guilherme Silveira discuss if Lean&Kanban is better than traditional Agile, how they could go together, and determining if Lean&Kanban is appropriate for immature teams.
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Simplicity, The Way of the Unusual Architect
Dan North talks about the tendency of developers-becoming-architects to create complex systems. He argues for simplicity and offers strategies to extract the simple essence from complex situations.
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Patterns for the People
Kevlin Henney proposes a new look at design patterns from the perspective of the habitability of code, communication, exploration, empiricism, reasoning, incremental development, and design sharing.
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The Counterintuitive Web
Ian Robinson: the web is counterintuitive because clients are interested only in URIs and they are responsible for requests’ sequence, and one should use protocol resources , not domain resources.
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