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Top 10 Performance Gotchas in Scaling In-memory Algorithms
SriSatish Ambati shares tips for in-memory algorithms, discussing I/O, S3 resets, muxers, primitive byte arrays, non-blocking structures, and fork/join queues.
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Meteor -Web Development Like You've Never Seen
Matt Debergalis highlights some of Meteor's components, showing how they work together to dramatically shorten the development cycle, whether you're a team of expert developers or just getting started
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Managing JavaScript Complexity
Jarrod Overson presents ways to quantify and reduce JavaScript complexity as well as some of the techniques the experts use to create maintainable JavaScript.
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Evolving Culture and Values. Understanding the Tradeoffs. Growth through Failure. The Importance of Leadership and Open Communication.
Pedram Keyani discusses the importance of evolving the culture and values of an organization, dealing with tradeoffs, learning from failure, proper leadership and open communication.
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Addressing the Power Shift in Engineering Recruiting
Pete Soderling explains from-the-trenches battle-tested tactics that an engineering manager can use to successfully attract the best developers to their team.
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Summly: An Award Winning Mobile App's Journey to the Cloud with Five-9s Availability on a Shoestring Budget
Eugene Ciurana describes the architectural choices, servers configuration, database, and caching systems that enabled Summly to achieve Five-9-Availability with cross-continental deployments.
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Java vs. C/C++ Performance Panel
Hosted by Erik Meijer, who runs the Cloud Programmability Team at Microsoft, the panelists answer questions on C/C++ and Java performance, contrasting the virtues of native vs. managed code.
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Scale Effects and other Stories
Crista Lopes discusses if scale affects the internal structure of projects and whether the popularity of libraries is correlated with internal software metrics such as bug density.
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C++: The Good Parts
Jordan DeLong overviews the past, current and near future "good parts" of C++'s functional side through the colored lens of his biases.
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Delivering Performance Under Schedule and Resource Pressure: Lessons Learned at Google and Microsoft
Ivan Filho shares lessons learned during the development and release of several large scale services at Microsoft and Google from the perspective of a performance manager.
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The Secret Life of a Mathematica Expression
David Leibs unveils some of features of Mathematica Programming Language, a functional and dynamically typed programming language.
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Scaling Engineering Culture at Twitter
Raffi Krikorian discusses the software engineering challenges met re-architecting Twitter and the cultural change impact that came with it.
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