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Neo4j - The Benefits of Graph Databases
This presentation covers the use of graph databases as an optimal solution for data that is difficult to fit in static tables, rapidly evolving data or data that has a lot of optional attributes.
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Realistic about Risk: Software development with Real Options
This session introduces Real Options and shows how it can help in running your project. Real Options is a decision-making process that can be used to manage risk.
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Writing DSLs in Groovy
After a short introduction to DSLs, Scott Davis plays with the keyboard showing how to approach the creation of a DSL by typing working snippets of Groovy code that get executed.
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Concurrent Programming with Microsoft F#
Amanda Laucher presents a real life enterprise application written in F#. She shows actual code snippets, explaining design decisions and suggesting how to use some of the F# constructs.
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Strongly Typed Domain Specific Embedded Languages
Lennart Augustsson shows how to use Haskell's programmable type system to create strongly typed DSEL. The presentation introduces Haskell’s type system and illustrates several DSEL examples.
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Agilists and Architects: Allies not Adversaries Presentation
This talk describes ways that Agile methods can benefit architects, addresses concerns architects express about agile, and proposes ways that architects and agile development teams can become allies.
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Unshackle Your Domain
Our application runs over 10,000 sustained transactions per second with a rich model. The key? Modeling state transitions explicitly.
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Google App Engine and the Google Data APIs
This presentation introduces the Google App Engine and an overview of its features while building a simple application. Integration with the Google Data APIs is demonstrated.
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From Concurrent to Parallel
This presentation looks at how Java SE 7 will address the challenges of multi-processor systems and parallelism with extensions to the java.util.concurrent package.
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Scaling Hibernate
Emmanuel Bernard and Max Ross talk about patterns and practices used to achieve high volume and scale with Hibernate. They also explains Hibernate Shards and Search to push the scalability limits.
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Merb: When Flexibility and Performance Matter
In this talk, Matt Aimonetti talks about the ideas and concepts behind Merb - and the reasons why it's appealing: speed, modularity and more.
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Measure for Measure
This session surveys emerging evidence that we can measure the effect of the technical practices of Agile development, and explores what we might be able to do about it to our benefit.