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Going Reactive: Event-Driven, Scalable, Resilient & Responsive Systems
Jonas Bonér discusses how the four traits of reactive apps -Event-Driven, Scalable, Resilient and Responsive- impact app design, how they interact, and their supporting technologies and techniques.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs
Robert Smallshire explores the disconnect between the dire outcomes predicted by advocates of static typing versus the near absence of type errors in real world systems built with dynamic languages.
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How Frameworks Can Kill Your Projects and Patterns to Prevent Getting Killed
Sander Hoogendoorn shares patterns to avoid framework issues by using layered architectures, bridge patterns, managers-providers, DI, descriptors and layer super-types, including code samples.
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Game of Threads - You Spawn or You Die
Torben Hoffmann discusses doing parallel programming with the Intensional Computing Engine (ICE) on top of the Erlang VM.
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Agility is the Tool, Not the Master
Tom Gilb keynotes on agility, outlining 10 principles and his own values for Agile value delivery.
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Building a Language for Spreadsheet Refactoring
Felienne Hermans introduces BumbleBee, a refactoring and metaprogramming spreadsheets tool based on a DSL that can perform transformations against spreadsheet formulas.
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True Story of Continuous Happiness by Continuous Delivery
Sergejus Barinovas discusses the challenges, failures and actual steps required to move an organization to continuous delivery and as follows - continuous happiness.
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Event Store for Web Applications
Greg Young discusses unexpected use cases and possible usages of the Event Store.
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Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane
John Hughes discusses automated testing techniques that can catch more code defects, with war stories from the likes of Ericsson, Volvo Cars, and Basho Technologies.
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Bringing Windows into Submission with Puppet and PowerShell
Paul Stack discusses using PowerShell and Puppet to administer Windows machines, showing how to configure a Windows server and set up a development environment in short time.
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The Ride into Space
Kristian von Bengtson discusses the challenges met developing space crafts in a nonprofit environment, plus political and legal loopholes which help to keep an amateur space program on track.