Brian Foote on the State of OOP, Refactoring, Code Quality
Brian Foote looks back at the promises of OOP and discusses which, if any, of them became reality. Also: a look at NoSQL, refactoring and code quality, testing and static typing and more.
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Akka 1.1 Released, Brings Many Improvements to Futures and Performance, Reduces Dependencies,
Akka 1.1 was released with many improvements in performance, Futures and more. The basic Akka also has no dependencies except for Scala 2.9. InfoQ caught up with Jonas Bonér to talk about the current state and the future of Akka.
OOD vs SOA Approach to SOA Domain Modeling
Should one approach SOA domain modeling starting with informational or functional constructs? Is a canonical data model the answer to standardizing message formats? What are the various stages of SOA information modeling? Experts on Gervas Douglas's SOA distribution list on yahoo groups put forth their views to answer these questions and more.
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Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation As Primary Drivers
While it almost certainly remains the largest Ruby on Rails based site in the world, Twitter has gradually been moving more and more of its stack to the JVM. Last year the company announced that its back-end message queue had been re-written in Scala, and more recently it moved the search stack to Java, making Twitter search around three times faster.
Ars Magna: the revolution is overdue
This essay is an intentionally provocative and controversial call for a real revolution in how we conceive of and practice software development. The intent is to stimulate discussion.
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Panel: Objects On Trial
Michael Feathers, Brian Foote, Richard P. Gabriel, Joshua Kerievsky, Eliot Miranda and Dave Ungar put Objects on trial and found them guilty for not living up to their promise.
Case Study: Large-scale Pure OO at the Irish Government
Richard Pawson discusses a case study of a large pure OO project for the Irish government, presenting the challenges met, the reason for choosing pure OO, and lessons learned implementing it.
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Nick Kallen Discusses Scala at Twitter
Nick Kallen from Twitter is interviewed by Randy Shoup about Twitter’s use of the Scala programming language. Nick discusses using Scala to build high-performance and scalable network services (including FlockDB), the powerful dualism of Scala which combines the best of object-oriented and functional approaches and also provides his views on the tradeoffs between static and dynamic languages.
Kresten Krab Thorup Discusses Programming Languages, Concurrency and Integration
Kresten answers questions about current programming languages and problems they solve. He also tries to look at what is missing for addressing issues we face today such as concurrency. He discusses its importance and tries to portray the language that would take us to the next level helping to tackle these issues easily.
