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Clojure's Journey: From Simplicity to Enterprise Maturity

Jordan Miller discusses the evolution of the Clojure ecosystem, from Rich Hickey's initial vision tackling complexity to its current status as a mature enterprise solution. He explains key philosophies, highlights pivotal moments like the "Simple Made Easy" talk, and showcases the vibrant Clojure community and its innovative tools.

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Architecture & Design

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Building the Middle Tier and Doing Software Migrations: A Conversation with Rashmi Venugopal

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Rashmi Venugopal about two topics. The first is how the middle-tier creates the application from the raw materials in the back-end, and how the front-end uses the middle-tier to present a meaningful workflow to the user. The second is how to manage the usually inevitable software migration that results from a successful software product.

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AI Infrastructure

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Beyond Durability: Database Resilience and Entropy Reduction with Write-Ahead Logging at Netflix

Prudhviraj Karumanchi, and Vidhya Arvind explain Netflix's journey to enhanced data durability and reliability through their WAL system. They discuss how WAL addresses critical challenges like data loss, corruption, multi-partition mutations, and replication, showcasing its architecture and the strategic trade-offs considered for a resilient data infrastructure at Netflix's immense scale.

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Culture & Methods

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Continuous Delivery Is Not Possible Without Pair Programming: Lessons From SpareBank 1 and SINTEF in Norway

Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom and Ola Hast unravel the powerful synergy between pair programming and continuous delivery. They explain how this shift allowed their team to abandon traditional hurdles like excessive WIP, lengthy pull requests, and multiple test environments, leading to ultra-fast deployments, superior code quality, and a highly cohesive, efficient engineering team.

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DevOps

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Analyzing Apache Kafka Stretch Clusters: WAN Disruptions, Failure Scenarios, and DR Strategies

Proficient in analyzing the dynamics of Apache Kafka Stretch Clusters, I assess WAN disruptions and devise effective Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies. With deep expertise, I ensure high availability and data integrity across multi-region deployments. My insights optimize operational resilience, safeguarding vital services against service level agreement violations.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Ben Christensen on Resilience at Netflix with Hystrix, Reactive Programming for the JVM with RxJava

Ben Christensen on Resilience at Netflix with Hystrix, Reactive Programming for the JVM with RxJava

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Ben Christensen works on the Netflix API Platform team responsible for fault tolerance, performance, and scale so millions of customers can access Netflix. Specializing in Java and through web and server-side dev, Ben gained an interest and skill in building maintainable, performant, high-volume systems. Before Netflix, Ben was at Apple in the iTunes division making iOS apps and media available.

About the conference

Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.

Apr 25, 2013

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