Have you noticed that in spite of all our oft repeated Best Practices, those bugs don’t seem to stop coming back no matter how many tests we write, that pile of technical debt still seems to keep growing no matter how much we refactor, and we keep missing those deadlines …
In the last few years, Scala and Scoobi have become the standard infrastructure at eBay. Alex Cozzi, a member of their Search Sciences Team, talks about his experience using the language and framework to develop MapReduce programs on Hadoop at eBay. This is a fun talk connecting advanced languages, big …
Using the stream processing and Hadoop ecosystem, Sears and MetaScale is developing a platform to collect, process and publish data in real-time. By integrating Storm into the enterprise data flow and deploying scalable topologies that source from multiple data sources, this platform makes it possible to process hundreds of thousands …
At Systematic we are using Groovy technologies like Grails to build a fairly standard 4-tier Java web application for a customer. This lecture describes our experience. We will tell you about the choices we made, how we built up knowledge about Groovy, what our biggest mistake was, and how we …
This video demonstrates how to develop a mobile hybrid Web app (jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap) with a back-end on the cloud. It coves+r offline caching, local storage, synchronization, Phone Gap build, geolocation and event push. At the end, we will have a clone of Foursquare on your mobile, with a backend …
In the Android UX team, it is critical to get user feedback frequently and consistently so that we are able to iterate and develop the best-in-class designs for our users. We will discuss how the team applied “”Pulse Studies”” (iterative research sessions) in order to put new ideas, designs, and …
