InfoQ are one of my favourite tech information sites anyway and the signal to noise ratio there is normally pretty high, they’ve got 3 great new presentations out today:

• in Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep, Dave Thomas talks about the problems of treating developers as interchangeable cogs (or fungible resources, as the project management crowd would say). Some great ideas for bringing new team members up to speed quickly (about 18 minutes in);

• in The Top 10 Ways to Botch Enterprise Java Scalability and Reliability, Cameron Purdy of Oracle talks about scaling Java. Obviously it’s not an impartial view but his points are good ones and it’s an interesting talk;

• in Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture, Mat Wall and Nik Silver talk about their experiences applying DDD at the Guardian’s web site, it covers why they selected DDD as a method as well as the benefits that they feel it brought. I’ve heard them talk about this before, on SE Radio, and to be honest, it worked better in that format I thought - the written version here needs to be edited down to about half it’s current length;

• finally, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock talks about the benefits of, and problems of conducting, architectural reviews. I’ve listened to some of this before as Rebecca did an interview with SE Radio a while back, but this is good for people who haven’t heard her talk before.