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QCon day 5 – BNP Paribas Architecture

March 14, 2008

A fascinating talk, or maybe a tutorial on how the world of market risk works within BNP Paribas . By outlining clearly the problem space and problems faced by IT departments in the banking world;procurement and strategic sign-off and procurement. You got a good feel for how the architecture came together. In this case i [...]

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QCon day 5 – The BBC, DRM and video

March 14, 2008

It was interesting to hear about the problems the BBC has in identifying the location of requests in order to both serve advertisements and apply DRM. We tend to forget that the BBC gets a near set amount of money with which to work, so spending money serving content outside the UK for nothing would [...]

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QCon day 5 – how is ebay architected

March 14, 2008

Its been interesting to listen to speakers, each of which portraits the strategies and principles and this time was the turn of Randy Shoup. His four strategies for architectures for scale. Partition everything ASync everywhere Automate everything Remember everything fails Around these points he very clearly showed pattens ebay have implemented and how these directly [...]

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QCon day 4 – Kent Beck on Effective Design

March 13, 2008

Another excellent talk in which Kent provided his latest views on how he thinks problems should be solved from the design point of view. He started by following on from his keynote, pushing that we must design with people in mind; design for the skills of your availoble developers. The talk built up to five [...]

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QCon day 4 – User interfaces meet the challenge of simplicity

March 13, 2008

A simple journey to put across some guidelines to aid in designing user interfaces. The talk lacked a bit of depth for me, in that some of the observations felt a little personal rather than having much evidence to back them up. It was what i needed though to allow me to think about the [...]

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QCon day 4 – Clustered architecture patterns

March 13, 2008

Ari Zilka CTO of Terracota gave an excellent presentation on how the product works and how it can be used. I was not going to attend this session, but he was excellent on the previous sessions panel, so i was drawn to it. His view on the world of using stateful in memory data and [...]

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QCon day 4 – Performance and Scaleability panel

March 13, 2008

Scale up, Scale out, Split the problem space, tune or re-architect. You may want to build with a vendor in mind.

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QCon day 4 – keynote

March 13, 2008

Highlighting that the focus should be on social rather than technical skills Kent coaxed developers towards integration with the business people. He pointed out that honesty works and hiding behind complexity and changing requirements is not the best way to build business partners and get them to trust in the software your developing. This is [...]

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