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Bloomin' Marvellous
Adrian Colyer takes a look at the Bloom filter, a probabilistic data structure, revealing the many uses of hashing and exploring how this can be used for computing summary information over data sets.
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Principles of Reliable Communication & Shared State
Andy Piper describes some fundamentals of communicating reliably in an unreliable world and communication techniques used to build distributed data structures that can tolerate failures.
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The DevOps Maturity Curve - Where Are You on It?
Chris Rowett explores the key stages on the DevOps journey: Complete Agile Development, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Validation, and "Closed Loop".
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One Small Step for Consumers, One Giant Lead for Enterprise
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by AppDynamics, Tom Levey discusses how to monitor UX, identify bottlenecks, and measure the revenue impact by turning on the lights inside a mobile app.
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Catastrophic Cancellation
Graham Markall covers some of the common problems that can occur from using the IEEE754 floating-point arithmetic, and what to do to avoid them in practice.
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The World after Cloud Computing & Big Data
Gunter Dueck wonders how are we preparing for the new society marked by cloud computing and big data in which jobs are automated and mediocre abilities are no longer accepted?
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Back to the Future
Emma Langman explores the usefulness of some of the Quality tools that have been around since the 50s for gathering requirements, tackling repeat problems, or innovating more efficiently as a team.
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The Coming of Age of Internal API Management
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Intel, Peter Logan looks at the evolution of the service layer in the context of API management and describes new architectural approaches for enterprise.
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Forty Years of Teams
Tim Lister describes his work as a colleague, as an apprentice, as a mentor, and as a mediator noting how team dynamics have changed over the years, and how they bring new challenges to collaboration.
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How Elasticsearch Powers the Guardian's Newsroom
Graham Tackley dives into the details of ophan. Shay Banon covers the technical underpinnings of ophan with a deep dive into the Elasticsearch features and functionality that power the ophan systems.
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A Research Agenda and Vision for Big Data at NASA
Chris Mattmann covers snow hydrology, regional climate modeling, climate science, and intelligence activities that need advancement to deal with the data deluge across NASA and government agencies.
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A Call for Sanity in NoSQL
Nathan Marz discusses building NoSQL-based data systems that are scalable and easy to reason about.