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Location: Oregon Ballroom 203/204
Sarah Novotny (Meteor Entertainment),
Bradford Stephens (Drawn to Scale)
Opening remarks by the OSCON Data program chairs, Sarah Novotny and Bradford Stephens.
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Tom Quisel (OkCupid)
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(3.22, 9 ratings)
Dive into the distributed system that powers OkCupid’s match searches. Learn how we use C++, event-based programming, and SSDs to solve problems that crop up when building a high performance, high availability distributed system.
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Benjamin Black (Boundary)
Average rating:
(3.67, 12 ratings)
Keynote by Benjamin Black, Co-founder, fast_ip.
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Steve Yegge (Google)
Average rating:
(4.71, 17 ratings)
It's 2021. You have a petabyte drive on your keychain, your startup company leases bulk cloud storage by the exabyte, and you have a million cores for data crunching. You even can have your own copy of the entire world's public semantic data. What do you do with it? If you're not sure yet, I've got plenty of ideas for you.
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Average rating:
(2.50, 2 ratings)
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers.
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Tom Hanlon (Cloudera)
Average rating:
(4.27, 11 ratings)
Hadoop gives you the ability to process massive amounts of data at scale. This presentation will show you how hadoop makes use of commodity hardware to allow you to build a system that scales, that deals gracefully with failure of individual nodes, and gives you the power of Map/Reduce to process Petabytes.
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Ryan Lowe (Percona),
Haidong Ji (Percona)
Average rating:
(4.00, 2 ratings)
With most modern web applications, there are requirements for both SQL access to complex data as well as simple Key-Value look-ups. This session will cover how to use the HandlerSocket Plug-In for MySQL to get exponentially faster look-ups for simple access patterns.
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Roger Bodamer (10gen)
Average rating:
(3.83, 6 ratings)
In this workshop, one of the core MongoDB committers will present the fundamental principles of MongoDB, how to set up and interact with the database, and what to consider when building applications using a document-based data model.
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Ezra Zygmuntowicz (VMware Inc)
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(4.00, 2 ratings)
Redis is an entry in the new breed of nosql databases. But it takes a different approach that makes it much more interesting then most of the other key/value stores in the same category. Come learn what makes redis so useful that it seems everyone is adding it to their toolbox.
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Ben Evans (jClarity),
Martijn Verburg (jClarity)
Average rating:
(3.83, 6 ratings)
Oracle is evil!! Java and open source are doomed! The standards
body is a zombie! .NET is going to eat our lunch. Larry's planning
on turning you into pet food for his Velociraptors. You've all heard
these types of comments and many Java developers feel out of the loop
and powerless to make a difference.
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Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz (Independent)
Average rating:
(3.75, 4 ratings)
Many Java frameworks and servers depend on a maze of twisty XML files wherein many get lost. In a system where the source code is unavailable, such an approach allows for customization. But when you can modify the source, the configuration files are unnecessary. After all, you can make the code do what you want. And it is less verbose and more understandable.
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Average rating:
(4.79, 24 ratings)
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our third Ignite event at OSCON.
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Tim Berglund (August Technology Group, LLC),
Matthew McCullough (GitHub, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.83, 18 ratings)
Matthew McCullough, trainer for GitHub.com, and Tim Berglund, co-presenter of the O'Reilly Git Master Class, will guide you through the fundamentals of Git in three hours of lecture, discussion, and hands-on exercises.
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Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating:
(4.67, 6 ratings)
Domain Specific Languages seem like a cool idea, but where's the payoff? This talk provides an overview of how to build both internal and external DSLs (including the state of the art tools), stopping along the way to show how this is practical to your day job.
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Josh Bloch (Google)
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(4.85, 13 ratings)
The Java programming language has evolved significantly since its introduction in 1995. In this talk, I'll discuss language changes from the addition of assertions in JDK 1.4 through Project Coin in Java 8, discussing what worked, what didn't, and why. Finally, I'll discuss ongoing efforts (Project Lambda for Java 8) and future plans, in light of the lessons learned from previous changes.
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Location: C123
Scott Andreas (Boundary Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.87, 15 ratings)
This language-agnostic proposal focuses upon concepts and strategies critical to the design and implementation of asynchronous systems and data processing layers. Key components include a survey of implementation strategies for non-blocking edge tiers, patterns for building out a distributed worker / processing tier, along with several horror stories of cascading failures and their resolution.
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Adrian Cole (jclouds)
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(4.00, 1 rating)
You've heard about NoSQL. You've heard about the Cloud. What if you could spin up something like HBase in a couple minutes and try out both at the same time. By the end of this session, you'll learn how to do just that, in a way portable across several NoSQL projects and dozens of compute clouds.
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(3.92, 24 ratings)
Grab a drink and kick off the 13th edition of OSCON by meeting and mingling with exhibitors and fellow attendees.
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(4.22, 37 ratings)
Step right up and join us at the O'Reilly OSCON Carnival. There will be games, clowns, sumo wrestling, log rolling, tattoos, and lots more. There's free food, free wine, and free beer. You’ve never seen a carnival like this. Trust us.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
Average rating:
(3.63, 19 ratings)
Keynotes today will be shared by OSCON, OSCON Data, and OSCON Java.
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Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd)
Average rating:
(2.64, 55 ratings)
In this new keynote, Jono Bacon, author of The Art of Community (O'Reilly),
founder of the Community Leadership Summit and award-winning Community
Manager for the global Ubuntu community, talks about the new
opportunities and challenges we face in understanding the art and
science of community leadership.
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Gianugo Rabellino (Microsoft)
Average rating:
(2.51, 49 ratings)
The world is changing, and so is Microsoft. We are continuing down the path of even greater openness and interoperability in new ways . . . not just in development, but rising to meet the challenges and opportunities of the cloud and becoming flexible and nimble in the world of mobile.
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Ariel Waldman (Spacehack.org)
Average rating:
(4.35, 62 ratings)
From launching robots into space to discovering distant galaxies: how people are creating open source space exploration and hacking science.
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Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd)
Average rating:
(4.36, 14 ratings)
In this new talk from Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager, author of The Art Of Community, and founder of the Community Leadership Summit, he discusses the changing state of community management, and what opportunities and challenges lay ahead for this young science.
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wesley chun (Google)
Average rating:
(3.44, 9 ratings)
This talk is about the evolution of Python. We will discuss Python 2 and Python 3: what the compatibility issues are, what the main differences are, and also talk about migration, Python 2.6 & 2.7, and other transition tools.
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Nathaniel Schutta (ntschutta.com)
Average rating:
(3.50, 6 ratings)
Looking for an excuse to do some hands on experimenting with jQuery, the write less do more JavaScript library? Look no further than this workshop where we'll look at a variety of common jQuery uses!
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Scott Mattocks (GSN Digital)
Average rating:
(2.50, 16 ratings)
This talk looks at the advantages and disadvantages of different techniques for dynamic content updates: short polling, long polling, and WebSockets. These techniques allow web developers to provide users with a fluid experience that keeps pace with their expectations. The talk concludes with a deep dive into both the WebSocket API and protocol.
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Scott Davis (ThirstyHead.com)
Average rating:
(4.56, 9 ratings)
JavaScript is the language everyone loves to hate. From its
pathological global-fetish to its weird take on object-orientation (prototypes? really?), it's hard to believe that JavaScript has not
only survived for the past 15 years, but continues to thrive.
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Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation)
Average rating:
(4.28, 29 ratings)
On the eve of Linux’ 20th anniversary, Jim Zemlin invites the OSCON audience into his "Bizarro World” of 2011. The world of computing has been turned upside down. Microsoft’s stock is down. They now are filing anti-trust suits, not being the subject of them. Heck, Microsoft is even contributing code to Linux. And for good reason.
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Fred Trotter (FredTrotter.com)
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(3.13, 30 ratings)
Open Source software will power a new Internet layer, the
Health Internet, which will finally make healthcare data liquid. The
Health Internet will finally change healthcare the same way the
Internet changed everything else; better, faster, cheaper.
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Eri Gentry (BioCurious)
Average rating:
(4.19, 31 ratings)
Join Eri Gentry, founder of BioCurious, the world’s first “hackerspace for biology” on a journey from garage biology to community lab.
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John Graham-Cumming (CloudFlare)
Average rating:
(4.14, 21 ratings)
This talk tells the behind-the-scenes story of the apology campaign complete with source code, tips on dealing with the old-school media, how Twitter helped and didn't, and a call for people who want to change the world to be "reasonably unreasonable" because nothing ever gets done by the reasonable.
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Gabe Zichermann (Gamification.Co & Gamification Summit)
Average rating:
(4.03, 33 ratings)
Creating engaging user experiences in software have become the mantra of businesses big and small - but what about open source? Do we do enough user-centric design and are we creating the kind of long-term user engagement we want? What are the challenges for open source advocates and developers to building truly engaging experiences and how can gamification make open-everywhere a reality?
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Francois Marier (Catalyst IT)
Average rating:
(4.00, 2 ratings)
An approach to building freedom-respecting online services and a presentation of Libravatar, a federated clone of the Gravatar profile image hosting service.
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Roger Bodamer (10gen),
Peter Neubauer (Neo Technology),
Matt Pfeil (DataStax),
Tim Anglade (Apigee),
Antony Falco (Basho Technologies)
Average rating:
(1.75, 16 ratings)
This panel discussion features the key innovators in the NoSQL space.
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Piers Cawley (Headforwards)
Average rating:
(3.29, 24 ratings)
Languages with first class functions are different. Callbacks and `each' are just the start - the fun really begins when you start learning from the Lisp guys and writing code that writes code that writes code. Think differently about your Javascript and do more with less code
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Alex Martelli (Google)
Average rating:
(3.08, 26 ratings)
Designing interfaces so that other code can interact with ours (whether our code is a library, framework, application, website...) is a very common and clearly crucial activity, but fraught with dangers — stuff we all keep doing wrong time after time. This talks shows some common cases of API design errors encountered in the wild, with tips on how to avoid them when you design your next API.
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Eric van der Vlist (Dyomedea)
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(2.00, 3 ratings)
Links that disappear are a major threat for long living sites.
This danger can be minimized by creating personal web archives.
A next step could be to create a catalogue of these personal web archives to build a decentralized collective memory of the web.
This presentation proposes a first step to bootstrap this process.
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Eran Hammer-Lahav (@WalmartLabs)
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(4.00, 5 ratings)
Sled (sled.com) is a new experimental productivity tool for small groups of close friends and family members. The session will take a detailed look at how OAuth 2.0 played a central role in the product architecture, and how it influence the product design and open source policy.
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Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ),
Sarah Novotny (Meteor Entertainment)
Average rating:
(4.18, 11 ratings)
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Sarah Novotny and Edd Dumbill.
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Dan Melton (Code for America)
Average rating:
(3.50, 26 ratings)
Code for America is a new type of public service for geeks to leverage their engineering skills to bring open source practices to communities across America. We'll talk about the growing geek corps and the challenges of leveraging each other's work in building our digital communities.
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Brian Fitzpatrick (Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.53, 36 ratings)
Keynote by Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering Manager, Google, Inc.
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Karen Sandler (GNOME Foundation)
Average rating:
(4.64, 39 ratings)
Keynote by Karen Sandler, Executive Director, GNOME Foundation.
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Neil Mansilla (Mashery, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.33, 12 ratings)
A web API needs documentation, unit tests, functional tests and possibly a WADL. Usually one or more is out of date or just doesn't exist. The Unico DSL can generate all these for you from a natural-language document written by project manager-types. Build a quick API in this session and BELIEVE.
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Chris Prather (Tamarou LLC)
Average rating:
(2.20, 5 ratings)
The move to pervasive computing is increasing the speed of production and lowering the bars to entry. The Arts & Crafts movement of was a reaction to the commoditization and division of labour. Perhaps it is time to look again at the idea that craftsmen should take pleasure in their work produce things which please their customers.
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Dan York (Voxeo Corporation)
Average rating:
(4.12, 8 ratings)
With the news that IPv4 address allocation is in its final stages, IPv6 is getting a great amount of attention and questions are being asked about whether software works with IPv6. Why should you as an open source developer care? What do you need to think about in your applications? How can you make sure your apps work with IPv6?
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Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)
Average rating:
(4.92, 36 ratings)
Our brains are not-at-all suited for modern life, and are plagued by a raft of bugs and unwanted features that we've been unable to remove. Join us in a tour of some of the most amusing bugs and exploits wetware has to offer.
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(3.00, 4 ratings)
Take the opportunity to network one last time and exchange contact information with one another.
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