In this talk we will discuss different approaches to realtime analytics, before focusing on how to build realtime analytics application using Apache Cassandra. We will talk about some of the common usecases, how to model the data, and some more advances to...

At Salesforce.com we service internal and product big data use cases, using a combination of Hadoop, Java MapReduce, Pig, Force.com and machine learning algorithms. In this talk, we will discuss two use cases – an product use case and an internal use case....

Starting in February 2010 a small group of developers, designers and product sculptors began work on http://alpha.gov.uk, demonstrating what a new, simplified and unified website for the UK government might look and feel like. Now with https://www.gov.uk w...

Event Sourcing is proving a popular alternative to in-place mutation of object-oriented domain models. It provides a better model for the high volume event capture needs of typical ‘big data’ applications. and offers some significant benefits during query ...

Jeff will kick off the second day by introducing us to Clojure, a dynamic programming language for the JVM. A dialect of Lisp, Clojure shares the code-as-data philosophy from Lisp. It is predominantly a functional programming language with a rich set of im...

There is now an entire generation of children who were are born into a world where the use of digital devices is the norm and as a consequence they know more about computers than the generation who teaches them. How do you address a criminally out of date ...

As co-author of Apprenticeship Patterns, Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman, Ade has been thinking about how developers learn and grow for a long time. In this talk Ade will explain what it takes to grow as a software developer and the value of e...

How do you build a software architecture that will last 100 years? Julian explores this concept by telling the story of how the internet evolved. By comparing two different approaches taken by two different teams in a race to build the internet that we kno...

Mobile browser performance is challenged by bandwidth, battery, and memory constraints. Slow loading and reacting sites create bad user experiences. Sites that drain batteries or crash the browser are infuriating. Porting a web application designed and dev...

Seb will launch the first day of CodeKen 2012 in style with a live demonstration of his PixelPhones project. Seb is known for large scale installations and events like his interactive digital fireworks, and glowstick voting systems. In this session he expl...