Distributed Systems with ZeroMQ and gevent
Jeff Lindsay discusses creating distributed and concurrent systems using ZeroMQ – a lightweight message queue-, and gevent – a coroutine-based networking library.
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Skynet: A Scalable, Distributed Service Mesh in Go
Brian Ketelsen introduces Skynet, a platform for polyglot, distributed and composable services that communicate with each other over RPC/JSON.
Glu-ing The Last Mile
Ken Sipe introduces Glu, an open source deployment automation tool coming from LinkedIn, showing how to perform Glu configuration along with a demo of using it.
Building Polyglot Systems with Scalang
Cliff Moon discusses Scalang, a message passing and actor library enabling easy communication between Scala and Erlang apps, wrapping services in Scalang actors.
Dynamo Is Not Just for Datastores
Susan Potter discusses Dynamo, Riak, distribution, consistency and fault tolerance, along with techniques and an example for building an application with riak_core.
Android App Assimilation
Logan Johnson exposes the Android integration points, explaining how to create apps that consume data and services provided by other applications.
Building Applications with jQuery UI
Scott González demoes creating web applications with jQuery UI, showing the widget factory, the unified API, how to create new widgets, the CSS framework, and themes.
CSS3 and Sass
Mark Volkmann introduces CSS3 and Sass, a tool extending CSS with variables, selector nesting, mixins and selector inheritance, the resulting code being converted to regular CSS before deploying.
Applying the Principles of Stage Magic to the User Experience
Danno Ferrin suggests applying principles used in magic for a better user experience: Consider the Stage and the Audience, Practice, Overcome Objections Before They Arise, Patter and Showmanship, Sleight of Hand, Direction, Simulation, Dissimulation, Anticipation.
The Once And Future Script Loader
Kyle Simpson reviews the script loading history and discusses current script loading techniques and the browser and HTML support for them.
Generic Programming Galore Using D
Andrei Alexandrescu discusses generic programming, showing how to solve generic tasks with D, tasks that are difficult or impossible to perform with other languages.