InfoQ Homepage QCon New York 2013 Content on InfoQ
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Evolving Panorama of Data
Rebecca Parsons reviews some of the changes in how data is used and analyzed, looking at how data is used to track violence, and attempts to predict famine and other crises before they happen.
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Leveraging Scriptable Infrastructures, Towards a Paradigm Shift in Software for Data Science
Karim Chine introduces Elastic-R, demonstrating some of its applications in bioinformatics and finance.
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Resiliency through Failure - Netflix's Approach to Extreme Availability in the Cloud
Ariel Tseitlin discusses Netflix' failure-based suite of tools, collectively called the Simian Army, used to improve resiliency and maintain the cloud environment.
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Amazon DynamoDB Design Patterns & Best Practices
Siva Raghupathy discusses DynamoDB Design Patterns & Best Practices for realizing DynamoDB benefits at the right cost.
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HTML5 Adoption in Finance - Migration Strategies and Challenges
Chuck Doerr, Asim Malik discuss tools and techniques used by financial firms for native HTML5 UX, and approaches for achieving application interoperability and incremental adoption of HTML5.
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Building Modern Web Sites: A Story of Scalability and Availability
Sid Anand uses examples from LinkedIn, Netflix, and eBay to discuss some common causes of outages and scaling issues. He also discusses modern practices in availability and scaling in web sites today.
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Combining JavaScript with Other Languages on the Web
Alon Zakai discusses using Emscripten, Embind and asm.js to generate JavaScript code from other languages, in an attempt to make such code run at near native speeds.
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Surviving Big JavaScript Projects
Anton Kovalyov provides an inside look into a large JavaScript project, presenting techniques for maintaining code quality while allowing the team to push lots of changes every day.
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Testable JavaScript
Mark Ethan Trostler conducts a tutorial on getting started with JavaScript testing.
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Immersive Teaching and Research in Data Sciences via Cloud Computing
Karim Chine discusses the meaning of cloud computing to academic teachers and researchers in data sciences and how to take advantage of it now when a new era for research and higher education begins.
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Hiring for Hackers
Pete Soderling presents tactics an engineer can use to successfully attract the best developers, explaining how to effectively tell the story of your product & tech to attract the best and brightest.
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The Game of Team Culture
Daniel Mezick explains how to deliver happiness through the intentional design and implementation of good-game mechanics inside a team, providing tools for playing an all-new game of team learning.