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The Top 10 Ways to Botch Enterprise Java Application Scalability and Reliability
Purdy discusses Java scaling, performance vs scaling, rewriting frameworks, databases, bottlenecks, abstractions, disaster recovery, one-size-fits-all architecture, big JVM heaps and network failures.
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Rob Windsor on WCF with REST, JSON and RSS
WCF is not just for SOAP based services and can be used with popular protocols like RSS, REST and JSON. Join Rob Windsor as he introduces WCF 3.5 and its new native support for non-SOAP services.
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REST Eye for the SOA Guy
In this presentation, recorded at QCon San Francisco, CORBA guru Steve Vinoski explains REST from the view of someone who comes to SOA from a traditional, RPC-oriented background.
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Meeting the Usability Challenge
In spite of the importance of user experience, usability ends up last. This presentation shows an approach to usability, focusing on activities resulting in big improvements with less effort.
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Agile Project Management: Lessons Learned at Google
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Jeff Sutherland, the creator of Scrum, talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google's first implementation of Scrum.
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Enterprise Batch Processing with Spring
Wayne Lund discusses batch processing, Spring Batch objectives and features, scenarios for usage, Spring Batch architecture, scaling, example code, failures and retrying, and the future roadmap.
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Security (CAS and OpenID) with Ruby
In this talk from QCon SF 2007, Justin Gehtland explains two open solutions to distributed identity and their Rails integration components: OpenID (using ruby-openid) and CAS (using rubycas-client).
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Heartbeat Retrospectives to Amplify Team Effectiveness
This short presentation will give Scrum Masters, Team Leaders and Project Managers a framework that they can use to run heartbeat retrospectives successfully.
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Building Large AJAX Applications with GWT 1.4 and Google Gears
Rajeev Dayal discusses GWT, integrating GWT with other frameworks, GWT 1.4 features, developing large GWT apps, integrating GWT and Google Gears, Google Gears features and the Google Gears API.
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Exploring Silverlight with Mark Smith
Mark Smith explores Silverlight 2.0 capabilities like code-behind support, threads, and consuming web services at QCon San Francisco 2007.
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Dealing With the Organizational Challenges of Agile Adoption
In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Joseph Pelrine talks about the challenges faced by organizations trying to adopt Agile methods.
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Server Side OSGi
Adrian Colyer describes OSGi, OSGi implementations, modularity, versioning, operational control, server-side OSGi, design considerations, using existing libraries, and Spring Dynamic Modules.
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