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The Lego Hypothesis
For decades, software engineering has "dreamed an impossible dream", to build software as easily as building Lego houses. In this talk, James Noble imagines a world where the dream has been realized.
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Diary of a Fence Sitting SOA Geek
In this presentation, Mark Little explains the history of SOAP/WSDL/WS-*-based web services and RESTful HTTP and highlights how the two approaches might converge into a single solution.
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Eric Nelson on Windows as a Web Platform
Eric Nelson explores Windows as a web platform using IIS 7.0 providing an architecture deep dive and striving to reduce the lines of code in web applications.
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Introducing Spring Batch
Dave Syer discusses Spring Batch (SB), batch processing patterns, typical batch processing uses, SB concepts and capabilities, case studies, SB domain details and the SB roadmap.
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An Architecture's Response to Growth and Change
Brian Zimmer unveils Orbitz.com’s architecture and its evolution over the years as the site grew from a US domestic flights booking website to an international one offering multiple services.
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Advanced Threat Modeling
John Steven talks about modeling security threats as a way to secure a system while designing its architecture. John focuses on authentication, authorization and session management.
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Architectures of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems
Can a system that is so large it cannot be comprehended be "designed" in a conventional sense? The foundations of computing are about to change. In this talk, Richard P. Gabriel explores why and how.
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Concurrency: Past and Present
Brian Goetz discusses the difficulties of creating multithreaded programs correctly, incorrect synchronization, race conditions, deadlock, STM, concurrency, alternatives to threads, Erlang, Scala.
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Jinesh Varia About Amazon Alexa Web Service's Architecture
Jinesh Varia talks about the architecture of one of Amazon's web services called Alexa. Jinesh explains how Amazon has reached scalability, performance and reduced costs for the Alexa service.
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Martin Fowler and Dan North Point Out a Yawning Crevasse of Doom
Martin Fowler and Dan North talk about the communication gap existing between the developers and the customers or users. Closing this gap is extremely important in order to create successful software.
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Mock Roles Not Object States
Nat Pryce and Steve Freeman talk about TDD using Mock Objects. Mock Objects improves the software design and makes the code more easier to maintain and adapt to changing requirements.
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Secure Programming with Static Analysis
Creating secure code requires more than just good intentions. Static source code analysis can be used to uncover the kinds of errors that lead directly to vulnerabilities. Brian Chess shows you how.
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