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An Unseen Interface
Halle Winkler overviews the state of speech technology, examining the opportunities in usability and new forms of usage that become available with speech interfaces in mobile apps.
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Creating Apps with 6-Year Old Girls (and their Dads)
Hannah Dee describes the 'Android Programming Family Fun Day', a one day AppInventor workshop introducing kids and their parents to mobile phone programming.
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Works in Progress
Jaimee Newberry discusses finding ways to enable and inspire human development and achievement starting from experience-design principles with parallels in product iteration leading to life iteration.
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You Don't Need a PaaS; the Epic Search for Truth
Russell Miles tries to uncover the PaaS truth based on his experiences using and building PaaSs for various organisations.
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How Netflix Leverages Multiple Regions to Increase Availability: An Active-Active Case Study
Ruslan Meshenberg discusses Netflix's challenges, operational tools and best practices needed to provide high availability through multiple regions.
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How Shutl Delivers Even Faster Using Neo4J
Volker Pacher, Sam Phillips present key differences between relational databases and graph databases, and how they use the later to model a complex domain and to gain insights into their data.
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Sensors Aren't Enough
Mo Ramezanpoor discusses how two different activity tracking apps -"Zombies, Run!" and "The Walk"- have different approaches for tracking user activity.
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Using Docker in Cloud Networks
Chris Swan takes a look at Docker: what it is, why it was chosen, how it became an established platform, and what it takes to package applications and application infrastructure for use with Docker.
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Scaling Continuous Deployment
Avleen Vig discusses the changes Etsy has implemented to scale continuous deployments over the last 12 months, in both software and infrastructure.
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Enterprise IT: What's Beyond Virtualization
Derek Collison discusses technologies and approaches for obtaining a fluid infrastructure that has the level of plasticity needed to heal itself and provide higher level SLAs for apps and services.
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Do Not Block Threads! A Blessing in Disguise or a Curse?
Sadek Drobi discusses how to use Futures and Iteratees to deal with blocking threads in a system with many IO calls and heavy threads.
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Finance's Forgotten Treasure: an Introduction to CQRS & Axon
Allard Buijze introduces CQRS and related concepts along with case studies showing how it is used in finance, gaming and healthcare to meet the demands of modern web-based applications.