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Web Framework Performance - Examples from Django and Rails
Gareth Rushgrove overviews Ruby on Rails and Django: object caches, fragment and HTTP caching, asset compilation, profiling, log file measurement and framework hooks for instrumentation.
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Dropwizard: Make Features, Not WAR
Ryan Kennedy introduces Dropwizard which is Yammer's framework for building RESTful web services on the JVM.
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Google Apps' Identity Crisis
Derek Parham discloses details of the largest and most complicated user migration and code refactoring in Google’s history when all their services were made available to Google Apps users.
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Using Node.js to Improve the Performance of Mobile Apps and Mobile Web
Tom Hughes-Croucher discusses increasing the performance of web applications and websites by using Node.js’ event-driven approach.
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JSR 356: Building HTML5 WebSocket Apps in Java
Arun Gupta explains building WebSocket applications in Java based on JSR 356 API.
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Etsy’s Product Development with Continuous Experimentation
Frank Harris and Nellwyn Thomas present the deployment process used by Etsy based on experiments.
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Hacking Culture
Jesse Robbins explains how to evangelize & overcome cultural resistance to change while sharing his own painfully funny lessons on how not to do it.
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JavaScript Performance Patterns
Stoyan Stefanov explains how to reason about and to address performance issues in JavaScript applications.
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Scaling Facebook Engineering
David Mortenson details how Facebook maintained efficiency while increasing the number of engineers by reducing the n00b time sink, keeping development fast and avoiding unintended consequences.
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“Batteries Included” - Advantages of an End-to-end JavaScript Stack
Juergen Fesslmeier discusses the advantages of using a complete JavaScript stack in order to create business web applications demoing creating such an app with Wakanda.
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Fear No More: Embrace Eventual Consistency
Sean Cribbs compares ACID with BASE, explaining the virtues and tradeoffs of eventually consistent systems and what developers should know in order to feel comfortable working with EC systems.
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Deconstructing the Database
Rich Hickey deconstructs the monolithic database into separate services, transactions, storage, query, combining them with a data model based on atomic facts to provide new capabilities and tradeoffs.