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Evolution of Code Design at Facebook
Nick Schrock presents how Facebook’s code evolved over time, explaining some new constructs – fbobjects, Preparables, Ents - introduced to address the complexities of a large social graph.
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Agile Operations – Optimizing the Business One Shell Script at a Time
Dan North and Chris Read discuss techniques for implementing Agile Operations, a combination of Lean thinking and Agile development meant to optimize the business processes in order to reduce waste.
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Large Scale Integration in Financial Services
John Davies addresses some of the difficulties dealing with FIX, FpML, SWIFT and integration in financial services software industry, challenging some of the canonical models existing today.
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HTML5 Design/Development Tooling + HTML and Flash
Christophe Coenraets demoes some of Adobe’s technologies for producing HTML5 websites, such as Dreamweaver HTML 5 Pack, Browser Lab, Illustrator HTML 5 Pack, "Edge" Project, and Wallaby.
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Scaling Lean & Agile: Large, Multisite or Offshore Delivery
Craig Larman presents practices and tips related to adoption, structure, requirements, contracts, architecture and design, offshore, multisite development, and coordination with large Scrum teams.
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Java SE: A Youthful Maturity
Danny Coward talks on how Oracle intends to maintain Java in the front line by investing in two features that are trendy today: support for multiple JVM languages and parallel programming.
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Leaner Programmer Anarchy
Fred George discusses Programmer Anarchy, a development process where programmers are not just empowered to act but the driving force behind a product, leading to substantial increase in results.
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Yes, SQL!
Uri Cohen presents the key characteristics of SQL and NoSQL databases and how to create a layer on top of distributed data stores in order to use SQL to query for data.