
Confreaks has an excellent collection of 2012 Airbnb Tech Talks, including this great presentation from Erica Kwan on how mobile payment platform...
0 replies - 1536 views - 02/02/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Every week, we check in with a new developer/blogger from the DZone community to find out what they're working on now and what's coming next. This week...
0 replies - 3147 views - 01/30/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

We know Lucene's near-real-time search is very fast: you can easily refresh your searcher once per second, even at high indexing rates, so that any change...
0 replies - 1542 views - 01/28/13 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

Conway's law suggests that designs are constrained by organizational communication structures. I've seen that law manifest itself over and over...
0 replies - 2163 views - 01/28/13 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Managing delivery risk is one of the key risks with pursuing systematic reuse. How can your teams mitigate that risk yet make progress on the reuse front? The...
0 replies - 616 views - 01/28/13 by Vijay Narayanan in Articles

So what does DevOps mean exactly? What is the Ops in DevOps? Operations can mean a lot of things and even different things to different people. DevOps is...
0 replies - 1694 views - 01/27/13 by Matt Watson in Articles

The hazards of cross-platform developmentRecently I helped a co-worker with getting Rails, Nginx, and Unicorn up and running in a Linux VM, using Capistrano to...
0 replies - 1327 views - 01/26/13 by Brian Swan in Articles

In Continuous Delivery each build is potentially shippable. This fact implies among a lot of other things, to assign a none snapshot version to your...
1 replies - 1932 views - 01/25/13 by Alex Soto in Articles

Imagine that you’re a Hadoop administrator, and to make things interesting you’re managing a multi-tenant Hadoop cluster where data scientists, developers...
0 replies - 1770 views - 01/24/13 by Alex Holmes in Articles

Over the past few years I’ve been a kind of informal adviser to the Defrag event. The role is less than onerous, Eric Norlin totally understands...
0 replies - 1367 views - 01/24/13 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Are you interested in introducing BDD to your team? Don’t try and do it like this under these circumstances. Learn from my failure.Having experienced...
10 replies - 17248 views - 01/23/13 by Jon Archer in Articles

As part of my role at a new company I’ve been asked to provide feedback about structuring Dev & Ops as well as what sorts of things work and don’t. I...
0 replies - 2653 views - 01/23/13 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

The essence of software engineering, in my opinion, can be captured in two words: managing complexity. Perhaps it's not the same for others, but, for me,...
0 replies - 2613 views - 01/23/13 by Chad Davis in Articles

"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...
0 replies - 348 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development, Extreme Programming and many other new-age hippie methodologies have spread through the dev world like...
0 replies - 3396 views - 01/22/13 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles