The Netflix OSS Cloud stack is clearly a great set of components for building a cloud infrastructure and platform—if you are Netflix. But how does that architecture work for other businesses? Learn how at Riot we leveraged Netflix OSS Cloud tools and platform components to create a complete infrastructure for hosting our global game platform. Maybe it can work for you too.
Learn about the design principles and motivation behind Vert.x and why we are heading for a reactive future. You will also hear an overview including demonstrations of some of the key features of Vert.x including the distributed event bus which extends right into the browser, high availability, and the module system.
Today’s Spring is easy to get started with, easy to learn, and embraces convention over configuration. Join Spring developer David Turanski as he takes you on a tour of today’s Spring, including the Spring.IO platform, Spring Boot, Websocket support, Spring HATEOAS, and more! This is a Spring you may not have seen yet.
Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) is a simple and elegant way to design and structure interactive code, like games and GUIs. Elm is a young functional language that brings this approach to the web, allowing you to easily create complex interactions.
Learn tactics and strategy for productionizing distributed systems and a little bit about what the future will hold.
Drawing inspiration from and parallels with some of the lessons learned from our collective migration towards functional programming languages and data-orientation, Chas provides part of one such discourse.
From the abstract: Typed Clojure is a gradual type system for Clojure and ClojureScript. In practice, type checking resembles “linting”: it is separate from compilation and must be called explicitly. This has some interesting implications. Instead of porting your old code to a “typed” variant of your language, you can gradually add type annotations and … Read More
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.
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.
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.
