What makes an application scale? What should you worry about early on and what can wait? Over the last 3 years, Achievers has learned many lessons and gained fundamental knowledge on scaling our SaaS platform. CTO Dr. Aris Zakinthinos will present and discuss the decisions we’ve made including language choice, …
The edge of the Netflix network is responsible for 1/3 of all internet bandwidth usage in the US. It is staffed by ten thousand EC2 servers and tens of thousands of CDN cache endpoints. During this session, you’ll learn about how we manage and control the outer edge, including our …
By now you should have heard about coupling and cohesiveness. These concepts, and their third cousin, polymorphism, is what we as developers chase day-in and day-out. They tease us with reusability and the promise of comprehensiveness of our code. They entice us with promises of code quality and testability. They …
Larry Wall, the creator of the Perl programming, answers the question “What are the five programming languages everyone, even non-programmers, should know about and why?”.
Vert.x is an event driven application framework that runs on the JVM, a run-time with real concurrency and unrivalled performance. Vert.x then exposes the API in Ruby, Java, Groovy and JavaScript, with more language implementations to come. This talk is an introduction to the vert.x architecture, programming model, typical patterns …
learn the basics of getting started using Spring on .NET. All your friendly features will be there to great you: dependency injection, AOP, declarative transaction management, web framework, ORM, and messaging middleware integration, but with a .NET twist. Come and see how you can use your existing Spring Java skills …
