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Ben Christensen on Resilience at Netflix with Hystrix, Reactive Programming for the JVM with RxJava
Bio
Ben Christensen works on the Netflix API Platform team responsible for fault tolerance, performance, and scale so millions of customers can access Netflix. Specializing in Java and through web and server-side dev, Ben gained an interest and skill in building maintainable, performant, high-volume systems. Before Netflix, Ben was at Apple in the iTunes division making iOS apps and media available.
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Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.
Apr 25, 2013
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