Videos tagged with QCon San Francisco 2010

Summary Jason Sobel presents the evolution of Facebook’s infrastructure over time, from the original LAMP stack to the present multi-datacenter configuration, the challenges faced and plans for the future. Bio Jason Sobel is an engineering manager on the Infrastructure team at Facebook where he focuses on keeping the site fast and scalable. He helped develop Facebook's multiple datacenter strat...

Summary Two of ThoughtWorks’ finest, Martin Fowler and Jez Humble, talk about the notion of Continuous Delivery, which enables organizations to build software that is production ready at all times. To do this, enterprises automate the build, deployment, and testing process, and improve collaboration between developers, testers, and operations. The duo discusses a variety of related issues. Bio ...

Summary Jeff Brown introduces Groovy to Java developers, outlining the conciseness and expressivity of the language and covering various topics: GStrings, Closures, collections, builders, beans, etc. Bio Jeff Brown is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource, performing consulting for various industries including Aerospatiale, Financial and Medical. He is skilled in Java, Grails and Groovy,...

Summary Thomas Enebo explains the basics of JRuby, showing what’s different from Java, how Java and JRuby interact with each other, and some examples demonstrating the usefulness of a complementary language. Bio Thomas Enebo has been a practitioner of Java for over a decade and he is the co-lead of the JRuby project. Thomas has also been happily using Ruby since 2001. In addition to working on ...

Summary Adrian Cockcroft discusses the advantages of running Netflix services in Amazon’s cloud, comparing the old data center solution against the new cloud architecture implemented to offer faster, more scalable, more available, and more productive services across the enterprise. Bio Adrian Cockcroft is an architect at Netflix leading the Cloud Systems group. He authored Sun Performance and T...

Summary Kresten Krab Thorup emphasizes existing problems with the Java concurrency model, explaining when to use Erjang, a JVM-based Erlang VM, built around the process and actor concepts. Bio Kresten Krab Thorup is CTO of Trifork, where he's responsible for technical strategy, researching future technologies, and the JAOO and QCon conferences. Kresten has worked on open source projects like GC...