Highlights
1,000,000 Daily Users and No Cache
Jesper Richter-Reichhelm shares the lessons learned while scaling their game platforms to handle millions of users, each game being built by small teams of two developers without dedicated ops.
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A Regression Testing Framework for Financial Time-Series Databases
Roberto Salama presents a regression testing framework built at Morgan Stanley with FitNesse, Scala, and KDB/Q, and used to run over 10,000 regression tests.
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Automatic Performance Programming?
Markus Püschel proposes to solve scientific calculation performance problems with code generation tools, introducing Spiral, an automatic performance programming framework for linear transforms.
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Classifiers: A Simple Framework for Accelerating Application Development
David Raal discusses Classifiers, a framework for dealing with classifiers and schemes, covering: what classifiers are, usage, design basics, integrating them into applications, pitfalls and issues.
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Erlang, The Road Movie
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses cloud, multi-core, integration, high availability, and imperfect software starting from discoveries made while learning Erlang.
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Language-based Security as Extreme Modularity
Jonathan Shapiro, Dean Tribble, Marc Steigler, David Wagner and Mark S. Miller (moderator) present their view on achieving security while using modularity for building large systems.
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Moving Back to Scrum and Scaling to Scrum of Scrums in Less than One Year
Rafael Maranzato tells the story of a team who initially failed to adopt Scrum, but they tried again, successfully adopting it and moving to Scrum of Scrums within one year.
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Panel: Multicore, Manycore, and Cloud Computing
Joshua Bloch, Robert Bocchino, Sebastian Burckhardt, Hassan Chafi, Russ Cox, Benedict Gaster, Guy Steele, David Ungar, and Tucker Taft discuss the future of computing in a multicore world.
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Photos of SPLASH 2011
SPLASH 2011 Photos on Flickr
Testing Domain-Specific Languages
Lennart Kats introduces Spoofax, a language for testing the syntax and semantics of domain-specific languages, enabling the creation of test cases using fragments of the language being tested.
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The JavaScript World Domination Plan at 16 Years
Brendan Eich recaps the major milestones and controversies in JavaScript’s history, the performance improvements, the current work on the next version of JavaScript, ending with some demoes.
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The Sequential Prison
Ivan Sutherland elaborates on the idea of a “prison” defined by sequential computers that work with sequential character strings making communication expensive and obstructing concurrency.
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Virtual Machines with Sharable Operation System
Hoi Chan discusses attaining efficiency in cloud computing by streaming and multiplexing VMs, sharing storage, along with safety analysis for efficient patching.
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F#: History, Today, Tomorrow
Don Syme discusses the history of F#, how it came about, the current status of the language, especially its simple model supporting parallel and asynchronous programming, and a preview of F# 3.0.
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Letters From The Edge Of An Agile Transition
Chris O'Connor tells the successful story of a team’s transition to Agile in the middle of a major product release, mentioning the difficulties encountered and how they tackled them.
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MDSD on the iPhone
Heiko Behrens shows how to create an iPhone domain specific language using model-driven software development.
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Photos of SPLASH 2010
SPLASH 2010 Photos on Flickr
Searching Without Objectives
Kenneth O. Stanley considers that innovation is stifled when we are strictly following a high goal, and we would progress more when we are inclined to discovery rather than following an objective.
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Software Evolution in Agile Development: A Case Study
Nanjangud C Narendra presents a case study of an enterprise Agile project in the light of Lehman’s laws of software evolution, along with observations on Agile practices used and their outcome.
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Textual Modeling Tools: Overview and Penalty Shoot-out
Bernhard Merkle discusses the various types of DSLs, and compares different language workbenches by using them with the same custom DSL in order to outline the differences between them.
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The Case for Evolvable Software
Stephanie Forrest believes in applying evolutionary biology principles to the software process creating evolvable software through automated bug repair, improving code and creating new combinations of existing functionality.
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- 1,000,000 Daily Users and No Cache
- A Regression Testing Framework for Financial Time-Series Databases
- Automatic Performance Programming?
- Classifiers: A Simple Framework for Accelerating Application Development
- Erlang, The Road Movie
- Language-based Security as Extreme Modularity
- Moving Back to Scrum and Scaling to Scrum of Scrums in Less than One Year
- Panel: Multicore, Manycore, and Cloud Computing
- Photos of SPLASH 2011
- Testing Domain-Specific Languages
- The JavaScript World Domination Plan at 16 Years
- The Sequential Prison
- Virtual Machines with Sharable Operation System
- F#: History, Today, Tomorrow
- Letters From The Edge Of An Agile Transition
- MDSD on the iPhone
- Photos of SPLASH 2010
- Searching Without Objectives
- Software Evolution in Agile Development: A Case Study
- Textual Modeling Tools: Overview and Penalty Shoot-out
- The Case for Evolvable Software
