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API Virtualization – Mocking on Steroids
Ole Lensmar takes a look at a number of common API virtualization use cases - design-first development, sandboxing and load testing - to see how and when virtual APIs can help and when they can’t.
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Pulsar: Real-time Analytics at Scale
Sharad Murthy & Tony Ng present Pulsar, a real-time streaming system which can scale to millions of events per second with high availability and 4GL language support.
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Exploratory Data Analysis with R
Matthew Renze introduces the R programming language and demonstrates how R can be used for exploratory data analysis.
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Circuit Breaking in Distributed Systems
Matt Heath discusses how circuit breakers and other similar patterns can be used to increase reliability in distributed systems such as Go-based microservice platforms.
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Spreadsheets for Developers
Felienne Hermans presents various algorithms that outlining the power of Excel, showing that spreadsheets are fit for TDD and rapid prototyping.
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Crafting an Effective Security Organization
Rich Smith discusses the progressive approaches taken by the Etsy security team to provide security while not destroying the freedoms of the Etsy engineering culture that are loved so much.
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Real Threat and Real Defenses – Case Study of the Unknown
Alex Holden examines hackers’ techniques, skills, and shortfalls. He takes a snapshot of the current threat landscape and derives practical lessons by analyzing a number of high profile breaches.
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Jekyll and Hyde with Jubula
This talk will present participants with both aspects of Jubula’s personality: Dr Jekyll: writing tests with the Jubula actions in the ITE; Mr Hyde: writing Jubula tests in Jav
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Machine Learning and IoT
Ajit Jaokar discusses data science and IoT: sensor data, real-time processing, cognitive computing, integration of IoT analytics with hardware, IoT’s impact on healthcare, automotive, wearables, etc.
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Actors for CyberThings
Carl Hewitt keynotes on the Actor Model and ActorScript, providing examples of using them for large-scale datacenters and IoT.
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The Many Faces of Apache Kafka: How is Kafka Used in Practice
Neha Narkhede discusses how companies are using Apache Kafka and where it fits in the Big Data ecosystem.
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Breaking Bad at Netflix: Building Failure as a Service
Kolton Andrus presents how Netflix, in order to harden their systems, designed “Failure as a Service” to allow anyone to test and validate how their systems handle failure.