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Learning and Perverse Incentives: The Evil Hat
Liz Keogh talks about perverse incentives that hinder the ability to reach the purpose for which they were created for, outlining the need to focus on the system built not its solutions.
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Innovations and Integrations: Applying Trendy Technologies to NASA Mission Operations Planning
Mark Powell presents examples of how NASA uses innovative technologies in missions such as Mars Exploration Rovers, as well as new technology projects including the JPL Aerobot and the ATHLETE.
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Remediation Patterns - How to Achieve Low Risk Releases
Jez Humble presents remediation patterns based on prevention, low risk release through automate provisioning and deployment plus dev/test/ops collaboration, and incremental delivery.
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OSGi – The Missing Piece Of The Jigsaw
Ian Robinson explains where OSGi fits into the Java ecosystem, presenting the needs met by OSGi, the framework’s current status and a peek of future developments.
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HTML5 and the Dawn of Rich Mobile Web Applications
James Pearce introduces cross-platform web apps development using HTML5 and web frameworks, such as jQTouch, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, PhoneGap, outlining what makes a good framework.
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Where Did My Architecture Go?
Eoin Woods advices on writing code that preserves the initial architectural design using conventions, dependency analysis, module systems, augmenting the code & checking rules, and language extensions
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Collaboration Over Contracts in Agile “Offshore” Outsourced Development
Craig Larman explains the internal workings of a customer-supplier relationship, advising on how to proceed to ensure an offshore Agile development that is fulfilling for both parties.
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Advanced Reflection & Metaprogramming
Jean Baptiste Evain presents the reflection and metaprogramming tools provided by Mono: Mono.Reflection, Mono.Linq.Expressions, and Mono.Cecil.
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Futures Trade Flow
Ian Bond presents the development of a trade flow event-driven architecture, providing the background of futures trade, the domain and the solution, sharing some of the lessons learned along the way.
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Beyond The Data Grid: Coherence, Normalization, Joins and Linear Scalability
Ben Stopford presents ODC, a highly distributed in-memory normalized NoSQL datastore designed for scalability, based on normalized data, Snowflake Schema, and Connected Replication pattern.
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Netflix’s Cloud Data Architecture
Siddharth Anand overviews Netflix’s business model, then he explains why they chose Amazon AWS, and how they moved their data into the cloud using a NoSQL solution.
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From Months to Minutes - Upping the Stakes
Dan North reviews many Agile practices and concepts, mentioning what has really made the difference over the years and what has not, outlining what helps high performing teams to do their job.
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