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Practicing at the Cutting Edge: Learning and Unlearning about Java Performance
Martin Thompson overviews Java's evolution, comparing it with C++'s, discussing the challenges of pushing the performance limits.
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How Zynga Handles Monitoring at Scale in Its Hybrid zCloud
Matt West explains how to use technologies like CloudStack, Beanstalk, Gearman, mod_gearman, Nagios, nagconf and other tools to monitor large web applications at scale deployed in the zCloud.
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Build Your Own PaaS the Netflix Way!
Sudhir Tonse presents Netflix' composable PaaS built with several components that have been open sourced.
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Architecting Organizations for the Cloud
Sebastian Stadil advises on selecting the right cloud from EC2, GCE, or OpenStack based on one's needs, outlining the deployment and administrative challenges to be faced with each option.
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From The Lab To The Factory: Building A Production Machine Learning Infrastructure
Josh Wills discusses using Hadoop technologies to build real-time data analysis models with a focus on strategies for data integration, large-scale machine learning, and experimentation.
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Data Science for Hire Ed
Gloria Lau describes some of the products built for the higher education sector, the data standardization process, determining school similarity and identifying notable alumni.
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Machine Learning & Recommender Systems at Netflix Scale
Xavier Amatriain discusses the machine learning algorithms and architecture behind Netflix' recommender systems, offline experiments and online A/B testing.
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My Other Internet is a Mirage
Anil Madhavapeddy suggests a different approach to building Internet services avoiding the complexity of today's services which incorporate many policies and security mechanisms.
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Exploring the Future of Web Tooling with Brackets
Narciso Jaramillo demonstrates tools and prototypes that have been built into and on top of Brackets, discusses the Brackets architecture and its extensibility model, and lessons learned building it.
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Core.async - Communicating Sequential Processes using Channels, in Clojure
Rich Hickey presents the motivation, design and use of the Clojure core.async library, the reasons for choosing the CSP approach and how it helps to structure applications.
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One Backend Per User: 100% Data Privacy / 0 Scaling Issues
Michiel de Jong suggests solving the data privacy and scalability issues by enabling mobile apps to connect to user's preferred back-end using Dropbox.js, GDrive JS, NimbusBase, remoteStorage.io, etc.
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API-Driven Development for Both Ends
Jakub Nesetril presents a practical example of prototyping, developing and testing an application using a structured description of its API.
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