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@BrianLekeBrian
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@rouanw
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TAB FTF MEETINGS
January 2014
TECHNOLOGY RADAR
AN
OPINIONATED
PERSPECTIVE
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KEY TRENDS
Early Warning and
Recovery in Production
Merging of Physical
and Digital
The JavaScript
Juggernaut Rolls On
Privacy vs. Big Data
EARLY WARNING
AND RECOVERY IN
PRODUCTION
Capturing client-side
JavaScript Errors
Instrument all
the things Structured
logging
Focus on mean
time to recovery
TECHNIQUES
EARLY WARNING
AND RECOVERY
IN PRODUCTION
Chaos
Monkey
Logstash &
Graylog2
TOOLS
SnapCI
Sensu
Heavyweight
test tools
MERGING OF
PHYSICAL &
DIGITAL
Tangible
interaction
Bridging physical and
digital worlds with
simple hardware
TECHNIQUES
MERGING OF
PHYSICAL &
DIGITAL
Low-cost
robotics
PLATFORMS
THE JAVASCRIPT
JUGGERNAUT ROLLS ON
17
Atwood's Law:
“any application that can be written in
JavaScript, will eventually be written in
JavaScript”
Why?
18
19
IT’S EVERYWHERE!
YEAH, I’VE SEEN SOME JS
20
JS ON THE SERVER
21
node.js
JSON FOR COMMUNICATION
22
IS THAT JSON IN MY DATABASE?
23
MongoDB
RICH USER EXPERIENCE
24
D3
Client and server
rendering with same code
It’s getting easier
25
TOOLS
26
Grunt.js
Dependency
management
PhantomJS
resolve
build
test
LANGUAGES & FRAMEWORKS
27
CoffeeScript
TypeScript
Yeoman
THE GOOD PARTS
28
Grunt.js
CoffeeScript
“That should not be
possible... Don’t do
it.”
Douglas Crockford
PRIVACY VS BIG DATA
BIG DATA
PRIVACY
TOOLS
32
Snowplow
Analytics &
Piwik
PLATFORMS
33
Hadoop-as-a-
service
Private Clouds
TECHNIQUES
34
Datensparsamkeit
Collaborative analytics
and data science
TECHNIQUES
35
Store all the things Datensparsamkeit
BUILD YOUR OWN RADAR
http://radar.bekk.no/techradar
38
“Once you started a career in software
development, you signed a pact that
promises you’ll keep up with changes in
that world”
Neal Ford
http://goo.gl/FraQO2
PERSONAL RADAR
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