Geeky Learning-casts
I’m constantly reading, watching or listening to stuff that makes me learn an I recently found the following very useful and timely for the work I’m doing at the moment (or in the near future).
- Dave Syer from Spring Source talking about Spring Batch - extracting the essential elements of batch processing Spring style. If you have to write batch jobs in Java you could do a lot worse than use Spring Batch as a base.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/syer-introducing-spring-batch - Mishkin Berteig on how using (incredibly short) 2 day Scrum iterations acted as a catalyst to make a business become more collaborative and better prioritise the work for their (rather small) IT department. Eventually determining that the IT department shouldn’t have been working on any projects other than one that would make the company more money than the rest of the projects put together!
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Short-Iterations-Mishkin-Berteig - A friend of mine sent me a link to a very interesting talk by Mitch Lacey about how a Scrum project he was leading went very wrong - what happens when the business just doesn’t ‘get’ agile development.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/A-Story-of-Project-Failure-Mitch-Lacey - Randy Shoup on the architecture of eBay - learn that data consistency doesn’t have to be 100% but you have to trade-off with availability and data partitioning - extremely illuminating.
http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-09/episode-109-ebay039s-architecture-principles-randy-shoup
Tags: agile, architecture, batch processing, learning, podcast, project failure, Scrum, short iterations, videocast