Track: Modern CS in the Real World

Location:

Day of week:

How modern CS helps you tackle today's problems.

Track Host:
Werner Schuster
InfoQ Lead Editor for Functional Programming
Werner Schuster (@murphee) sometimes writes software, sometimes writes about software. He focuses on languages, VMs, and compilers, and recently more and more on HTML5/Javascript.
1:20pm - 2:10pm

by Anil Madhavapeddy
Co-Author "Real World OCaml", University of Cambridge

The current state of the art in the security of networked system is an absolute disaster, with buffer overflows and logical flaws regularly exposing critical infrastructure to external attack. Mirage proposes a radically different way to deploy safer Internet applications. Rather than the traditional OS model where functionality is provided in layers, building up from a feature-rich kernel through userspace and language runtimes, Mirage progressively specialises application code written in...

2:30pm - 3:20pm

by Yan Cui
Developer at GameSys

The challenge of modelling and balancing the economy of a large scale game is one of the biggest problems game developers face and one that many have tried to solve by simply throwing man-hours at it... But there's a better way!

 

Learn how Gamesys did it by leveraging graph database Neo4j to model the in-game economy of our MMORPG "Here Be Monsters" and automate the balancing process. We'll discuss lessons learned, successes and challenges, and how a graph database...

3:40pm - 4:30pm

by Richard Kasperowski
QCon Open Space Facilitator

Open Space

Join Werner Schuster, our speakers, and other attendees for the Modern CS Open Space

What is Open Space?

Every day at QCon London, we’ll open space five times, once for each track. Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.

 

...

4:50pm - 5:40pm

by Torben Hoffmann
CTO of Erlang Solutions

Most teaching and modelling revolves around synchronous techniques and solutions, as they are easier to grasp in the beginning. As multi-core and distributed architectures is becoming the norm the need for asynchronous design is increasing.

This is where old school protocols starts to shine again. The dragon of telecommunications is coming to life again.

All systems, but in particular asynchronous ones, can benefit from a more thorough focus on the interaction (aka the...

Tracks

Covering innovative topics

Wednesday, 4 March

  • Architecture Improvements

    Next gen architecture, Arch over the full lifecycle, Bleeding edge tech in legacy, Cognitive biases in architecture, Evolving Architecture.

  • Big Data Frameworks, Architectures, and Data Science

    As big data tools and architectures continue to evolve, how do you architect and select technologies that work now but are also future-proof?

  • DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Code Beyond the Dev Team

    As infrastructure becomes as malleable as code, a unified approach from reqs to ops is needed to deliver promised breakthroughs.

  • Engineering Culture

    The best teams and companies talk about how to create amazing engineering cultures.

  • Java - Not Dead Yet

    Java is evolving to meet developer and business needs, from lambdas in Java 8 to built-in support for money types rumoured for Java 9.

  • Mind Matters at Work

    How theories from neuroscience and psychology can help us better understand IT professionals and discover what really motivates them.

Thursday, 5 March

  • Docker, containers and application portability

    People building stuff for and with containers showing why application portability is important, and what can be done with expanding ecosystems.

  • Evolving agile

    Reflecting on and learning from successes and failures in applying agile approaches since the creation of the Agile Manifesto and exploring ways of applying agile practices to increase business value.

  • HTML and JS Today

    The state of the art in web technologies. What is important to know and why?

  • Internet of Things

    What software devs need to know to design and build for instrumented environments and reactive things, what new issues and questions it raises.

  • Modern CS in the Real World

    How modern CS helps you tackle today's problems.

  • Reactive Architecture

    How to create reactive systems is more than simply learning a framework. Thinking in a reactive way helps you to design responsive architectures.

  • The Go Language

    The Go Language - Concurrency, Performance, Systems Programming.

Friday, 6 March

  • Architectures You've Always Wondered About

    Get a rare look behind the scenes and get to see the architectures of the most well-known sites with the least known architectures.

  • Low latency trading

    The 'race to zero' continues. Join us to learn about the latest tecniques being deployed to optimise order routing and execution.

  • Open source in finance

    Financial services have changed from OS as cost-saving to a competitive weapon. See open source projects that are disrupting the finance industry.

  • Product Mastery

    Come have fun with fellow PMs and BAs as you learn about Value Management. We'll even tell you dark tales of Snarks, Hippos and other obstacles.

  • Taming Microservices

    Tackling the challenges of microservices in practice.

  • Taming Mobile

    Mobile is no longer the Next Big Thing but a requirement for your business. Hear from those who have implemented successful mobile systems.