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Attila Szegedi on JVM and GC Performance Tuning at Twitter

Topics
Dynamic Languages,
NoSQL,
Open Source,
Compilers,
JRuby,
Asynchronous Architecture,
Clustering & Caching,
Java,
Database Design,
Performance & Scalability

Attila Szegedi talks about performance tuning Java and Scala programs at Twitter: how to approach GC problems, the importance of asynchronous I/O, when to use MySQL/Cassandra/Redis, and much more.

News about Open Source

jQ.Mobi – jQuery Optimized for Mobile Devices

Topics
HTML5,
Open Source,
iOS,
Cross Platform,
Javascript,
Mobile

appMobi has open sourced jQ.Mobi, a rewrite of jQuery, competing with jQuery Mobile for developer mindshare.

webOS Is to Run on Many Devices and Enyo on All Major Browsers

Topics
Javascript,
Mobile,
Open Source

HP has decided to broaden the reach of webOS by adopting the standard Linux kernel, and it’s Enyo development framework is going to run on all major browsers. Enyo 2.0 has been open sourced.

Articles about Open Source

Controlling and Steering Open Source Projects

Topics
Open Source

Open source software has become an important part of the software business. In this IEEE article, author Dirk Riehle discusses how the commercial software firms can control or steer open source software projects to meet their business needs. He talks about how these firms depend on open source and how they manage that dependency to meet their business goals.

Increasing Role of Open Source in ASP.NET

Topics
.NET,
Open Source

There has been an increasing trend in the ASP.NET team lately to adopt more Open Source - from supporting JQuery and Modernizr, to releasing sources for some underlying platform components. InfoQ gets in touch with Scott Hunter, Principal Program Manager Lead for ASP.NET to learn about this new trend, drivers behind some recent decisions and how things might look in the future.

Presentations about Open Source

Q&A on Mono with Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman

Topics
Mobile,
Open Source,
.NET

Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman answer questions on Mono: Xamarin, the deal with Novell, packaging, iOS 5, Lion, Android, licenses, MVC3, WCF, Mono phone, MonoDevelop, and others.

Heresy & Heretical Open Source: A Heretic's Perspective

Topics
Open Source,
Architecture

Douglas Crockford presents a debate existing around XML and JSON, and the negative effect of the Intellectual Property laws on open source software.

Interviews about Open Source

Ville Tuulos on Big Data and Map/Reduce in Erlang and Python with Disco

Topics
Map-Reduce,
Dynamic Languages,
Open Source,
Parallel Programming,
Ruby,
Language,
Big Data,
Fault Tolerance,
Architecture,
Performance & Scalability

Ville Tuulos talks about Disco, the Map/Reduce framework for Python and Erlang, real-world data mining with Python, the advantages of Erlang for distributed and fault tolerant software, and more.

Josh Bloch on Java and Programming

Topics
Java,
Open Source,
Language,
Language Design

In this interview, Google’s Josh Bloch shares his views on the open-source Java landscape as well as on the future of the Java language, including changes being implemented via Project Coin. Bloch also discusses support for multi-core in programming languages, support for multiple languages on the JVM, Java pain points and the “next big language.”