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Storm: Distributed and Fault-Tolerant Real-time Computation
Nathan Marz introduces Twitter Storm, outlining its architecture and use cases, and takes a look at future features to be made available.
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Faster, Cheaper Identity Management through Loose Coupling – the LIMA Approach
Ganesh Prasad discusses the essentials of the loosely-coupled identity management approach called LIMA,
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Recovering the Ability to Design when Surrounded by Messy Legacy Systems
Eric Evans shares 4 strategies for dealing with messy legacy systems: Bubble Context, ACL Synchronization, Exposing Legacy Assets, and Domain Events Channel.
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Introducing Apache Hadoop: The Modern Data Operating System
Eli Collins introduces Hadoop: why it came about, the benefits it produces, its history, its architecture, use cases and applications.
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Accelerating the Web: How GPUs Make Browsers Fast
Jarred Nicholls explains how browsers leverage the GPU to speed up complex web pages by primitive drawing, composing layers and using tiles backing stores.
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The Importance of Descriptions in Understanding the Impact of Change
Steve Ross-Talbot discusses the what, why and how of describing things, in particular requirements, along with a set of tools serving that purpose and called Zero Deviation Lifecyle.
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Building and Delivering Next Generation Developer Services Using Private Cloud Infrastructure
Chris Pinkham explains how to create an automated scalable self-service infrastructure based on principles used by Amazon to build their cloud services.
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Taking Time Seriously
Bryan O'Sullivan introduces some of the technologies pioneered in the Haskell community to streamline software development and reduce operational costs, while producing beautiful code.
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Patterns of Software Change
Michael Feathers overviews a number of patterns he has seen in various projects which provide a good indication that major changes are to be undertaken in the system’s future.
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Agile People over Agile Process
Mike Roberts shares his view current on Agile after years of practicing it, discussing how he practices it now and how that could help others.
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Fine Grained Coordinated Parallelism in a Real World Application
Mohammad Rezaei discusses fine-grained parallelism along with an algorithm called Aggregation and a concurrent map built to help dealing with it.