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More Best Practices for Large-Scale Websites: Lessons from eBay

Randy Shoup: Partition Everything, Asynchrony Everywhere, Automate, Everything Fails, Embrace Inconsistency, Expect (R)evolution, Dependencies Matter, Respect Authority, Data, Custom Infrastructure.

Randy Shoup
on May 06, 2011

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Runtime Changes Are the Weeds Killing Your Crops

Spike Morelli discusses best practices behind creating Programmatically Generated Images, a tool for building and deploying system images that remain unchanged through QA, staging and production.

Spike Morelli
on Feb 03, 2011

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39:47
Agile Development: Overcoming a Short-term Focus in Implementing Best Practices

Karthik Dinakar presents a case study showing that trying to reach short-term goals by ignoring some practices can lead to long-term failures, how they recovered and recommends some best practices.

Karthik Dinakar
on Oct 18, 2010

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44:56
Meeting the Challenge of Simplicity

This session addresses the abstract notion of 'simplicity', why it is critical in modern UI design, and answers questions, like "Why do design processes and good intentions undermine simplicity?"

Giles Colborne
on May 15, 2009

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10 Ways to Improve Your Code

Neal Ford, an architect at ThoughtWorks, shows 10 ways to write better code. This is practical advice for developers, but application architects can benefit from it too.

Neal Ford
on Apr 15, 2009

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42:23
Craftsmanship and Ethics

In this talk Robert C. Martin outlines the practices used by software craftsmen to maintain their professional ethics.

Robert Martin
on Feb 12, 2009

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47:15
SOA Driving IT from the business

In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Steve Jones explains his ideas on why IT is fundamentally broken, and how business-driven SOA might be a cure.

Steve Jones
on Apr 14, 2008

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54:05
Event Patterns

Ian Cartwright presents some of his work (developed with Martin Fowler) on event patterns: Event Sourcing, Event Collaboration, Parallel Model, and Retroactive Event.

Ian Cartwright
on May 17, 2007

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29:50