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Crazy Fast Build Times or When 10 Seconds Starts to Make You Nervous
Daniel Worthington-Bodart presents ways to reduce the built times by a factor of 10.
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The Future Is Layered
Alex Russell discusses the state of web technologies, the internal tensions between specifying new features for a platform and its adoption, and what could be done to achieve a layered architecture.
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Agile Adoption is Fool's Gold (and other Stories from the Coal Face)
Rob Bowley shares lessons learned while doing Agile: Scrum is not that bad, Don’t call it Agile, Doing the right thing vs doing it right, Identify the change agents, Hire good people, etc.
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High Performance Network Applications in the Capital Markets
Todd Montgomery discusses messaging and how peer-to-peer messaging has changed capital markets, then takes a peek into its future pointing out that queuing is dead.
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The Evolution of PaaS
Paul Fremantle presents the evolution of PaaS, the differences between implementations, and various features: language support, deployment model, multi-tenancy, openness, plug-ability, services, etc.
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Progressive Architectures at the Royal Bank of Scotland
Ben Stopford, Farzad Pezeshkpour and Mark Atwell discuss: the Manhattan processor – avoiding GC pauses-, beyond messaging with ODC, Risk, data virtualization and collaboration in banking.
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Performance from the User‘s Perspective
Alois Reitbauer explains why the server response time and synthetic transactions are not good enough performance indicators, presenting a way of measuring page performance as perceived by the user.
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Simple Made Easy
Rich Hickey discusses simplicity, why it is important, how to achieve it in design and how to recognize its absence in the tools, language constructs and libraries.
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Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with HTML, JavaScript and PhoneGap
Christophe Coenraets presents how PhoneGap helps creating cross-platform HTML and JavaScript applications that access native device functionality.
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The Future of the Mobile Web Platform
Tobie Langel reviews the current state of the mobile web platform, covering especially existing specifications, how they are implemented in various mobile devices and what is to expect in the future.
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What Can DevOps Learn from Formula 1?
Stephen Burton discusses how the people, processes, collaboration and tools employed in Formula 1 can be used to manage performance and reliability and ultimately achieve success by DevOps.
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Cloud Broker-Dealers
James Mitchell presents how brokers and dealers can intermediate cloud services with a higher performance per price ratio, with advice on what to look for when searching for a SaaS cloud provider.
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