Philly ETE 2014 – Abhi Nemani – Designing 21st Century Governments
Governments spend hundreds of billions of dollars on technology, but they can adopt modern practices to reduce costs and improve services. And here’s the thing: they are.
Philly ETE 2014 – Darach Ennis – Deconstructing the lambda architecture. A small, fast data geek’s journey through big, slow data
Architects are still designing systems like they did in the ‘70s. This talk isn’t about big, slow data; this talk isn’t about small, fast data. This talk takes a nuanced path through most of the rest which sits somewhere in between, with tradeoffs aplenty.
Philly ETE 2014 – Don Coleman – Connecting Arduino and Phones with Bluetooth and Cordova
The internet of things is everywhere, but how do you interact with devices? This presentation will walk through using Apache Cordova to communicate with Arduino over Bluetooth.
Philly ETE 2014 – Diana Larsen – Coaching Teams along the Path to Agile Fluency
Join Diana Larsen in an exploration of ways coaches and managers can use the model to show the path to reliable Agile competence and find the “Agile” that’s right for them.
Philly ETE 2014 – Kyle Kingsbury – Call Me Maybe: Distributed Databases and Linearizability
We rely on distributed databases and queues to store and process data reliably, but many fall short of their marketing promises. In this installment of the Jepsen project, we’ll explore what “strongly consistent” really means, and find out whether various databases live up to their claims.
Philly ETE 2014 – Ben Alman – Building the “Front Half” of Your App with Grunt
In this talk, we’re going to learn how to incorporate Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner into our build process to help automate often-marginalized tasks that center on the “Front Half” of your app (you know, the half of your app you take for granted).
Philly ETE 2014 – Burin Asavesna – Automating Your Way out of the Dark Ages: Our Experience with (And Without) PhoneGap Build
This is a talk sharing TripCase’s (http://phonegap.com/app/tripcase/) experience with (and without) PhoneGap Build. We’ll walk through our journey and discuss how it shaped expectations on how quickly we should be getting our code in the hands of fellow testers and stakeholders.
Philly ETE 2014 – Roland Kuhn – Go Reactive: Blueprint for Future Applications
The game has changed: we write interactive web applications, we distribute the processing of huge data sets and our services need to be available at all times. This new breed of applications comes with its own set of requirements and forces us to establish new blueprints for designing our systems. In this talk, we ask … Read More
Philly ETE 2014 – Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant – What if Type Checkers were more like Linters?
By separating the type checker from the compiler, we avoid infecting the rest of the language with the massive complexities of a static type system. Our compiler is simple and robust, our language design is unrestricted by an arbitrary type system, and our users are free to choose the right type system for the job.
In this talk, we explore this idea further and demonstrate what such a type system is like to use.
Philly ETE 2014 #22 – ZooKeeper for the Skeptical Architect – Camille Fournier
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From the abstract: ZooKeeper is everywhere these days. It’s a core component of the Hadoop ecosystem. Your favorite startup probably uses it internally. But as every good skeptic knows, just because something is popular doesn’t mean you should use it. In this talk I will go over the core uses of ZooKeeper in the wild … Read More