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SPACE ANALYSIS:

A new analytical technique

to deliver robust, easily

implementable and change-

tolerant architectures

WHAT’S NEW

IN SQL SERVER

2014 FOR

DEVELOPERS

SQL Server

2014 is just

around

the corner

and, in this

workshop, Beauchemin

will discuss in detail

the most important and

compelling new features.

This includes memory-

optimised tables and

compiled storage procedures

(aka Hekaton), a new

in-memory storage engine for

greater speed in processing.

The more interesting and

useful implementation detail

is that this is all integrated

with native SQL Server – no

new DDL and DML to learn,

and integration between

memory-optimisation and

“traditional” tables is built-in.

He will also cover clustered

columnstore indexes and other

columnstore enhancements,

which don’t require extra

copies of your data to use the

in-memory, column-based

xVelocity engine, and new

cardinality estimating for

query plans, which have been

vastly overhauled based on a

decade or more of real-world

experience with the most

difficult query patterns.

While these three changes

alone are enough to fill the

whole day’s workshop, there

are many more changes

coming in CTP2 and beyond.

Depending on public

availability of the relevant

information, Beauchemin

will also discuss and

demonstrate these.

¡

Monday 31st March

WORKSHOP REF: M1

BUILDING

GRAPH

DATABASE

APPLICATIONS

Too much

time is

wasted

creating that

big design

upfront, only to find that users

don’t like what you have built

once it has been released.

Today, we are in danger of not

only over-designing, but also

designing solutions to the

wrong problems.

In this workshop, Chen

will demonstrate how to

experiment with rapid

design techniques to

ensure design solutions

for the right business

problems are delivered to

the right target audiences

rapidly and continuously.

He will show how to create

design solutions fast, as a

team, and how to work with

a client to get products that

really matter out into market

early. Good design involves

elegantly solving problems

despite the constraints. More

often than not, time is one of

those constraints.

In this workshop, you

will be forced to think and

act quickly, exploring how

to quickly work as a team to

address a real-world problem;

rapidly analysing customer,

industry and business trends,

behaviours and needs to

validate ideas; and learning

how to apply the latest design

thinking, Lean Startup, Lean

UX and agile methodologies, to

bring your prototype to life and

ensure it is as useful as it can

possibly be.

¡

WORKSHOP REF: M3

Neo4j is a JVM-based

graph database. For highly

connected, semi-structured

data, graph databases are

thousands of times faster than

relational databases, making

them ideal for managing

complex data across many

domains, from finance to

social, telecoms to geospatial.

In this workshop,

Robinson and Webber

will cover the core

functionality of the Neo4j

graph database. With a

mixture of architecture

and hands-on coding

sessions, you’ll quickly

learn how to develop a

Neo4j-backed application.

Each session comprises a set

of practical exercises designed

to introduce and reinforce an

aspect of the Neo4j stack.

Attendees won’t need any

previous experience of graph

databases to participate.

They will, however, need

some experience of Java, and

a laptop with a Java IDE of

their choice. Attendees will

leave with a good grounding in

developing a graph database

solution, a copy of O’Reilly’s

Graph Databases book, and

a heap of additional exercises

to help them hone their

skills further.

¡

How do

you design

a large

system?

We know

Waterfall doesn’t work very

well, but also that Agile scales

poorly. Various proposals have

been made (BDUF, domain-

driven design, prototyping)

but none has yet achieved

much traction.

The key to managing a

large system is – precisely

• managing change. No

specification ever survives

its own implementation: as a

system takes shape, everyone

–developers, architects and

stakeholders – change their

minds continually. In any

non-trivial project, goalposts

are constantly in motion. A

robust architecture is one that

can anticipate those changes,

and a good design is one that

can accommodate them

cheaply and efficiently.

Problem space analysis is

a technique that simply and

clearly anticipates, documents

and defines the changes

that can affect a project.

It informs the architectural

design so that it can

accommodate those changes,

and it delivers a change-

tolerant ubiquitous language

to unify and coordinate the

development effort.

In this workshop,

May will introduce the

principles of problem

space analysis, and will

show how those principles

can be translated into

architectures and thence

into working systems,

even while the goalposts

are moving. The technique

will be actualised using a

real-life design problem.

¡

WORKSHOP REF: M4

THE FOLLOWING

WORKSHOPS RUN

FOR A FULL DAY,

FROM 09.30 TO

17.30 WITH A

SHORT BREAK

IN THE MORNING

AND AFTERNOON,

AND A LUNCH

BREAK AT 13.00.

UNLESS

OTHERWISE

NOTED IN THE

DESCRIPTION,

THEY ARE

PRESENTATION-

BASED IN STYLE

RATHER THAN

‘HANDS-ON’ LABS.

Please refer to page 2

for guide to colour symbols.

Bob

Beauchemin

Jules

May

HOW TO DESIGN

STUFF THAT

MATTERS, FAST!

WORKSHOP REF: M2

Eewei

Chen

Jim

Webber

Ian

Robinson

DAY 1 AGENDA: ALL-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

BOOK

NOW

BOOK YOUR PLACE BY

31 JANUARY AND SAVE

UP TO £200

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