Videos tagged with Transactions

Summary This presentation, from QCon SF 08, analyzes real world projects where using explicit state transition models was made and the many interesting modeling/architectural possibilities that arose from the decision. Along the way, the IMIS system and its performance is linked to explicit state transition modeling. Bio Greg Young is co-founder and CTO of IMIS, a stock market analytics firm. H...

Summary Betfair ( www.betfair.com ), the world's largest betting exchange, transacts the equivalent of over half the combined equity trading volume of every major stock exchange in the world. In common with other industries, particularly the financial services sector, Betfair is experiencing both an increase in transaction volumes and decrease in value per transaction. Due to the incr...

Summary In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, David Chase discusses Fortress, a Fortran-based highly parallel programming language. Topics covered include the origins of Fortress, mathematical syntax, the challenges of running on the JVM, parsing, work stealing, transactions, continuations, problems with blocking, the type system, type mapping, multiple dispatch and profiling...

Summary In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Google architect Gregor Hohpe talks to Stefan Tilkov about his new work on conversation patterns. Building upon his earlier work on enterprise integration patterns, Gregor sees conversation patterns as playing a critical role in real-world interactions, with analogies in the natural world. Bio Gregor Hohpe is a software architect with Google, ...

Summary Brent VanderMeide continues his series on scopes this week with details on multi-level nested scopes. Bio Brent VanderMeide is a self-proprietor software engineering consultant at Code Impressions. As a software architect / sr. software engineer Brent has 9 years of experience creating innovative business applications. Brent often finds himself in the architect role of software. Everywh...

Summary Brent VanderMeide shows how to use database transaction scoping, incliding how to create and use your own scope class. Bio Brent VanderMeide is a self-proprietor software engineering consultant at Code Impressions. As a software architect / sr. software engineer Brent has 9 years of experience creating innovative business applications. Brent often finds himself in the architect role of ...

Summary Eric Evans, the author of Domain Driven Design, interviews Greg Young about the architecture implemented for a system processing tens of thousands of transactions per second. It's not just the sheer number of transactions that is challenging, but the time constraints imposed are those specific to real-time systems. Greg reveals some of the architecture elements of the system's design. B...

Summary In this presentation from QCon London, William Soo and Meeraj Kunnumpurath discuss the Voca transaction processing system architecture, the previous Mainframe-based architecture, architectural challenges and requirements, the new Spring and J2EE-based architecture, upcoming challenges for Voca, and technologies to watch for in the future. Bio William Soo is Head of Architecture and CTO ...