What's Your Next JVM Language? Find out what over 2000 InfoQ readers said ...

Is the Java language limiting your programmers' productivity and you're looking for an alternative? Which of the many JVM languages out there will you pick? Find out what over 2,000 of you had to say.

API Management Platforms Capabilities

Every API program needs a set of capabilities to manage the technical and business aspects. The set of capabilities vary for each program based on the criteria for success.

Keynote: The Power of Abstraction

Abstraction is at the center of much work in Computer Science. It encompasses finding the right interface for a system as well as finding an effective design for a system implementation. (Presentation)
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Interview with Eclipse CDT Project Lead, Doug Schaefer

Doug Schaefer talks with Alex Blewitt at EclipseCon 2013 in Boston about the origins of the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling, and where it's going in the future. Read on to find out more. (Interview)

Groovy for Fun and Profit

Ken Kousen presents a variety of small but non-trivial examples of Groovy in action, using techniques ranging from closures to parsers and slurpers to metaprogramming and AST transformations. (Presentation)

Grails Goodness

Ken Kousen teaches the fundamentals of Grails through examples: domain classes, controllers, transactional services, producing XML and JSON data, Ajax, unit and integration testing, plugins. (Presentation)

JVM Mechanics - A Peek Under the Hood

Gil Tene discusses JVM observation-based runtime optimizations, ordering and memory model rules, basics GC functions, memory management, and JVM mechanics. (Presentation)
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Improved Git Support Reaches Visual Studio

A new release of Visual Studio Tools for Git brings significant speed increases and improved quality of life for developers. (News)

NoBackend: Front-End First Web Development

At the Front-Trends 2013 conference last week, Gregor Martynus gave a talk entitled "Look ma, no backend!" about developing applications primarily from a front-end perspective, falling back to using server-side components only to implement the features the browser does not yet support. (news)

Gareth Rushgrove shares his experience at Gov.UK and how to tame cloud computing

Shanley Kane discusses Dynamo - consistent hashing, vector clocks, hinted handoff, gossip protocol - advances in each area, and how querying and application development has changed as a result of them. (Presentation)
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Tackling Complex Data with Neo4j

Ian Robinson discusses the complexity of highly connected data and how graph databases can help, illustrating the talk with practical examples implemented using Neo4j. (Presentation)

Paul Germeraad Discusses Using Innovation Games for R&D

Paul Germeraad talks with us about using Innovation Games for R&D, intellectual property, patent trolls, and the San Jose Budget Games. (Interview)

Interview with Jason Little about Agile Transformation

Agile transformation is about focusing on organization change and understanding the complexities that come with it. An interview with Organizational change coach Jason Little about approaches for organizational change, culture, feedback and learning, and using the lean startup approach. (Article)

Implementing Kanban in Practice

At the Lean Kanban conference, InfoQ asked Dr. Arne Roock how a team can evaluate whether Kanban is the right tool, and how to kick it off. Dr. Roock offers some prescriptive advice. (Article)

Using Group Research to Answer Complex Questions

Joanna Zweig leads a workshop for practicing Cooperative Inquiry, a group learning technique meant to provide answers to complex questions based on group`s wisdom and knowledge. (Presentation)
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Building a Learning Organization (from any level)

Matt Barcomb discusses "amplifying learning", focusing on setting up learning environments and common organizational pitfalls. (Presentation)
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Testing and Refactoring Legacy Code

Sandro Mancuso runs a hands-on demo adding tests to a Java legacy code then refactoring it. (Presentation)

Interview and Video Review: Working with Big Data: Infrastructure, Algorithms, and Visualizations

Paul Dix leads a practical exploration into Big Data in this video training series. The first five lessons of the training span multiple server systems with a focus on the end to end processing of large quantities of XML data from real Stack Exchange posts. He completes the training with a lesson on developing visualizations for gaining insights from the macro level analysis of Big Data. (Article)

GETn2it - A Case Study of Building a Startup with Groovy & Grails

Brian Jimerson presents a startup case study, including business challenges and the architectural solution implemented with Groovy, Grails and Spring. (Presentation)

Road to REST

Rickard Oberg explains how to expose use-cases to solve the linking problem in RESTful APIs, and how this will simplify both API development, documentation, as well as client development. (Presentation)
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APIs in Government

Gray Brooks discusses the efforts around creating APIs for accessing the vast amounts of data administered by the US Government. (Presentation)

Beyond APIs: Creating an Ecosystem Around Your Business

Sanjiva Weerawarana keynotes on building a ecosystem and transforming the business into a service by creating and providing an API. (Presentation)

A Platform for All that We Know

Savas Parastatidis explores the role of Web technologies to deliver sophisticated next-generation knowledge management to the entire planet. (Presentation)
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