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Learning from Five Years as a Skype Architect
Andres Kutt shares lessons learned at Skype: rules of thumb don’t always apply, functionality is important, simple solutions, buzzwords are dangerous, and communication is important.
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Through the Lean Looking Glass
Christophe Louvion tells the story of an online advertising company which exchanged Scrum with Kanban, applying Lean principles at all levels of the organization, change that saved the company.
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Kanban and Accelerated Emergence of High Maturity
David Anderson discusses the role of Kanban in bringing accelerated high maturity in organizations, presenting evidence of such organizations achieving high maturity in very short time (3-9 months).
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The Need For Enterprise Agility – Vision and Case Study
Alan Shalloway discusses the need for lean enterprises to harmonize business with management and technical team. Eileen Shuter presents Vanguard’s journey adopting Agile then moving to Kanban.
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Cloud Computing and SOA
Dave Chappell introduces cloud computing to an SOA audience discussing how to make good use of grid computing and cloud computing to implement the next generation of SOA initiatives.
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Real-Life Use Cases of SOA Design Patterns at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration
Brian Lokhorst presents practical use cases based on several SOA design patterns showing how he and his colleagues improved the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration services.
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Open Source at Unibet.com - 10x Scalability at Half the Cost
Stefan Norberg presents Unibet.com’s architecture which uses XHTML 1.0, CSS 2.1, YUI, caching, compression, image spriting, and CDN striping for front-end plus multiple replicas for scaling out.
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LinkedIn: Network Updates Uncovered
Belkin and Dawson discuss LinkedIn’s requirements, then the internal architecture of the social network, presenting the service API, especially Network Updates, and the applications built on them.
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The State and Future of JavaScript
Douglas Crockford talks on the history of JavaScript unveiling some of the struggles the Ecma Technical Committee has had in advancing the language over the years, concluding with lessons learned.
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SOA @ eBay: What Makes It Successful?
Malladi talks about challenges met while implementing large scale SOA deployments, giving eBay as an example of an efficient, extensible and scalable SOA platform with an automated governing process.
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Turning on a sixpence - No excuses: Concept To Cash Every Week
This session shows the technical aspects of what's required to iteratively build a product that always performs, and the skill and discipline needed to deliver software to production every week.
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Three SOA Case Studies - Understanding What to Use and Where
Paul Fremantle presents 3 case studies of organizations which decided to implement SOA. He details on design, architecture, technologies used, and lessons learned during the process.
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