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Gabrielle Benefield on Outcomes Based Contracting and the Mobius Model
Gabrielle Benefield talks about the use of Outcomes Based Contracts and examines how an outcomes focus reduces risk and improves results in contractual relationships. She talks about leading metrics which can be used to ensure the outcomes are being met. She presents a simple yet powerful model named Mobius which supports constant discovery and feedback
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Eva Andreasson on Hadoop and Java 8
Eva Andreasson speaks to Charles Humble about how Apache Hadoop works and how developers and BI teams in traditional enterprises can start to use it in their organisations, how garbage collection impacts Hadoop jobs, and what she is interested in in Java 8.
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Nathan Marz on Storm, Immutability in the Lambda Architecture, Clojure
Nathan Marz explains the ideas behind the Lambda Architecture and how it combines the strengths of both batch and realtime processing as well as immutability. Also: Storm, Clojure, and much more.
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Trisha Gee on MongoDB, Java 8, and What Excites Her About Writing Software
In this interview, recorded at QCon London 2014, Trisha Gee talks to Charles Humble about MongoDB, her work on the Java driver, her development set-up, what she’s interested in in Java 8, and what excites her about writing software.
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Dave Farley on Agile, DevOps, Acceptance Testing and More
In this interview, Dave Farley approaches Continuous Delivery both from human and technological perspectives. Do flow-based methodologies play better with CD than iteration-based ones? How to do CD on a DevOps unfriendly context? From a technological perspective, learn the importance of artifact repositories and why you should avoid branching as much as possible.
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Tom Banks on the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile
When he reaches out to developers, Tom Banks tells them about cool new technologies they can implement. Using these cool new things they can do with IBM technology to try to make them think a little bit outside the box when it comes to enterprise software. So that they can innovate using IBM software and these new spaces created with their WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile.
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Zach Holman on all Things Github
Many of today's most prominent app developers rely upon GitHub, a popular website that facilitates online collaboration between members of all areas of the software engineering community. Learn about the nuts and bolts of GitHub; like Repositories, Contributions, projects and streaks from Zach Holman in this InfoQ interview recorded live at QCon San Francisco 2013.
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Jeremy Pollack of Ancestry.com on Test-driven Development and More
Hadoop, the distributive file system and MapReduce are just a few of the topics covered in this interview recorded live at QCon San Francisco 2013. Industry-standard Agile implementation and a lot of testing, assures the development team at Ancestry.com that they have an app that can handle the large traffic demands of the popular genealogy site.
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Changing Software Culture to Deliver
Greg Brockman, Stripe's CTO, relates how developers can determine if they are in a culture that has problems delivering software. With some of his insights and shifts in culture, developers can help their organization become unstuck from a poorly performing culture and shift into a more productive, organized, and effective team.
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Software Engineer Panos Astithas of Mozilla on Debugging Tools and Open Source
JavaScript expert Panos Astithas discusses the latest trends in mobile app development. The tools that Panos employs in his work as Software Engineer at Mozilla help to keep their applications as bug-free and smooth running as possible. Effective debugging is all about having the best developer tools available.
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Adobe System's Narciso Jaramillo on Brackets and Web Development
In this exclusive interview with "NJ", app designer and engineer from Adobe Systems, at the QCon 2013 in San Francisco, NJ talks about the open source code editor known as "Brackets". The challenges around front-end development; JavaScript, HTML, CSS development. the open source project and the actual branded Adobe product called Adobe Edge Code, part of Edge Tools and Services.
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Netflix's Reactive Programming Model via Rx
Netflix leverages reactive system concepts to produce highly interactive and engaging User Interfaces. By using functional programming, Rx, and an intentional training method, they are able to ramp up their developers to produce reactive code quickly and with few bugs. Jafar explains how Netflix established this practice and gives a few pointers as to how your company can start its own.
