Videos in category Conferences

Summary Mark shares tips and tricks focused on maximizing the development strength of your team. This session filled with real-world examples will cover all the benefits, one of the greatest being that a small team can produce with the force of a large one, and compete on the same level as much bigger teams who are still working with standard architectures. Bio Mark Miller has strong expertise ...

Abstract Archaeopteryx generates MIDI bytecodes which produce music via prosumer applications such as Propellerhead Reason. If you’ve ever wondered whether or not use cases really exist for Ruby features like lambda, eval, continuations, and higher-order functions, Archaeopteryx demonstrates not just the usefulness but the power and flexibility of these techniques. Archaeopteryx also uses...

Summary Open Terracotta is an open-source, highly scalable, JVM-level clustering solution. As well as being a drop-in replacement for Tomcat Clustering, it can transparently cluster POJOs and Spring beans. This presentation will be an in-depth case study of a small mobile application built using Terracotta clustering. Bio Ari Zilka is CTO and co-founder of Terracotta. Previously, Ari was the Ch...

Abstract Story Driven Development (SDD) helps close the gap between the language of developers and product owners so they can clearly define when software is “done”. Readable and executable product requirements are now possible. We’ll explore tips for integrating SDD into your existing workflow and cover technical details for implementing and maintaining stories using cutting-...

Summary When it comes to system integration testing Spring adds real value. In this session, Rod Johnson (Spring creator) discusses: integration testing and the support that Spring provides for it, issues around testing the persistence layer, testing web applications. Bio Rod is the father of Spring. The Spring Framework open source project began in February 2003, based on the Interface21 frame...

Summary In this presentation, we discuss how to keep that productivity while reducing the risk that chaos often brings. We examine key agile practices, that when applied judiciously to Ruby, retain the amazing productivity, improve the quality of the code, and still let the programmers have fun. Bio Fred George is a consultant with over thirty-eight years experience in the industry. A veteran o...

Summary When we move to distributed architectures for scalability and/or fault-tolerance reasons we are also introducing additional complexities. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels dives into the different parameters that play in the tension between availability and consistency and presents a generalized model that we can use to reason about the trade-offs between different solutions. Bio Dr. Werner Voge...

Summary In this presentation, Google architect Gregor Hohpe introduces various concepts for to manage more complex interactions between services, including conversations, choreography, and orchestration. He provides a down-to-earth look at these concepts along with the associated Web services standards like WS-BPEL and WS-CDL, and identifies common patterns in service conversation. Bio Gregor H...

Summary As the Dutch artist MC Escher once said "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible". Hence we are trying to stretch the .NET framework to cover the Cloud such that it will become possible to incrementally and seamlessly design, develop, and debug complex distributed applications using your favorite existing and unmodified .NET compiler and deploy these appl...

Summary This half hour presentation looks at a Fortune 500 company's effort to achieve faster time to market by transitioning from RUP to Agile. At Agile2006 Hussman & Stenstad revealed the gradual process from readiness assessment and chartering through education and practice to the creation of an adaptive culture with a "living plan", sharing lessons learned along the way. Bio D...