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Acceleration in the Wild with Dataflow Computing
James Spooner discusses the need to make good use of the underlying silicon using Dataflow computing and parallelism to improve throughput and latency for optimized data processing performance.
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Polyfilling The HTML5 Gaps With JavaScript
Addy Osmani introduces polyfills, JavaScript shims that can be used to simulate HTML5 functionality in older browsers such as IE 6-8. He explains how to write new polyfills.
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How AppFog Built a PaaS around CloudFoundry
Jeremy Voorhis introduces PaaS and CloudFoundry, then explains how AppFog built their own PaaS on top of CloudFoundry.
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Big Data Architectures at Facebook
Ashish Thusoo presents the data scalability issues at Facebook and the data architecture evolution from EDW to Hadoop to Puma.
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Extreme FIX Messaging for Low-Latency
Kevin Houstoun and Rupert Smith discuss the creation of Java and .NET libraries for a FIX Protocol implementation without generating garbage in order to avoid the latency spikes associated with GC.
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Taming JavaScript with Cloud9 IDE: a Tale of Tree Hugging
Zef Hemel introduces the Cloud9 JavaScript IDE, especially the static analysis library including inline error and warning highlighting, the rename refactoring and code completion.
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Retrospectives: A Bit of Ceremony Can Be Useful
Aino Corry argues for retrospectives, emphasizing their importance and providing advice on creating useful reflections on past activities.
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Build Trust in Your Build-to-Deployment Flow!
Baruch Sadogursky demonstrates automated building techniques using Maven/Gradle/Custom scripts and Binary Repository along with common pitfalls that are to be avoided.
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Panel: PaaS - Present and Future
Mark Rendle, Adrian Cockcroft, Chris Richardson, Colin Humphreys, Jeremy Voorhis and Paul Freemantle discuss the state of PaaS, its benefits and drawbacks, and the road ahead.
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Modeling in a Cold Climate
Andrew Stewart investigates the causes for so many bad models, especially in the financial sector, created by various teams including Agile ones.
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Lessons Learned in Deploying PaaS
Colin Humphreys discusses PaaS: why they chose a certain PaaS solution for their customers, PaaS in ALM, lessons learned from their experiences and what to expect from different PaaS vendors.
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Runtime Analytics: Finding Out What Your Users Really Think of Your Software
Jonathan Allin suggests using runtime analytics to understand how users perceive your software, helping to improve the software development processes and speed up the release cycle.
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