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December Tech Meeting

Download the presentations from our December tech meeting:

Disruptor by Allard Buijze (including a link to a recorded version)

In this presentation Allard Buijze introduces the Disruptor, a pioneering open-source framework developed by LMAX, a British retail financial trading platform with the ability to process many trades with low latency. This trading system is built on the JVM platform and centers on a disruptor-based Business Logic Processor that can handle 6 million orders per second on a single thread. It provides a refreshing look at how tasks within threads can be distributed. Both Disruptor itself and the underlying technical concept are covered in this presentation.

How Scala can give you maintainable code by Frank Versnel

An explanation on how Scala can give you maintainable code by assessing several of the
language's features on the ISO maintainability characteristics and the SIG maintainability model.
A general introduction to the language is also covered in this presentation.

 

February Tech Meeting

Download the presentations from our February tech meeting:

An introduction to shell scripting

An introduction to Unix shell scripting for programmers. This presentation covers the syntax and concepts of the popular (Unix) shells, the situations when shell scripts are useful, and some common pitfalls. The presentation presumes a basic familiarity with programming, but no previous knowledge of Unix shells is required.

XML Databases

Erik Siegel an XML specialist. In this presentation Erik provides an introduction to XML and XML databases. He discusses different user cases, and how XML databases could be applied covers an overview of the major brands available. Lastly, he dives into the internals of XML databases and how to work with them mainly using XQuery.

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