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Spanner - Google's Distributed Database
Sebastian Kanthak details how Spanner relies on GPS and atomic clocks to provide two of its innovative features: Lock-free strong reads and global snapshots consistent with external events.
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Stream Processing: Philosophy, Concepts, and Technologies
Dan Frank discusses stream data processing and introduces NSQ – Bitly’s open source queuing system – and other new technologies used for communication between streaming programs.
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Clojure: Enemy of the State
Alex Miller discusses Clojure’s approach to data, comparing it with OOP’s approach, and covering various related topics such as mutation, state vs. value, primitive and composite data.
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Approximate Methods for Scalable Data Mining
Andrew Clegg overviews methods and provides use cases for performing data sets operations like membership testing, distinct counts, and nearest-neighbour finding more efficiently.
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The Code that Isn't There
Scott Vokes presents some lesser-known data structures and shows how probability distributions and content-addressable storage can become tools to shape global system behavior.
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API Conf Panel: Education APIs
The panelists discuss their approaches in using APIs and open standards and data in the education sector.
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JavaScript as Data Processing Language & HTML5 Integration
Quentin Adam discusses the connections between NoSQL, data processing, message broking and JavaScript, and how one can quickly prototype with these tools.
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Next Top Data Model
Ian Plosker shares a number of techniques for establishing the data query patterns from the outset of application development, designing a data model to fit those patterns.
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The Why, What and How of Open Data
Jeni Tennison explains how to evaluate an organization's data assets as potential sources of open data, and how to deal with the thorny issues of derived and personal data.
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The Data-Reader's Guide to the Galaxy
Steve Miner discusses tag literals and data readers, what’s new in Clojure 1.5, and EDN (Extensible Data Notation).
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API Conf Fireside Chat: Stephane Dubois, CEO and Founder at Xignite
Stephane Dubois shares insight in Xignite’s road building a business model providing APIs for accessing financial data.
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Tackling Complex Data with Neo4j
Ian Robinson discusses the complexity of highly connected data and how graph databases can help, illustrating the talk with practical examples implemented using Neo4j.