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Data Manipulation with Functional Programming and Queries in Ballerina
Ballerina has been designed as a data-oriented programming language and supports a functional programming coding style. The Ballerina query language is similar to SQL in the sense that a query expression is made up of clauses. The Ballerina “Table” data structure can be more effective than maps in representing indexed data collections.
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Using GraphQL and Ballerina with Multiple Data Sources
The Ballerina programming language is well-suited to developing GraphQL applications, due to the network abstractions, network-aware type system, clear data representations, and visual diagrams. This article discusses the benefits of GraphQL and Ballerina, and walks through a sample application that retrieves data from a database and a 3rd-party API.
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Ballerina: a Data-Oriented Programming Language
Ballerina’s flexible type system brings the best of statically typed and dynamically typed languages in terms of safety, clarity, and speed of development. Ballerina treats data as a first-class citizen that can be created without extra ceremony, just like strings and numbers.
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Ballerina for Full-Stack Developers: a Guide to Creating Backend APIs
This article explores Ballerina’s intuitive syntax for writing REST APIs. We also discuss authentication, authorization, OpenAPI tool, observability, SQL/NoSQL client libraries, and key language features. At the end of this article, you will have a good understanding of why Ballerina is a prominent candidate for writing your next backend API.
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Ballerina Swan Lake: 10 Compelling Language Characteristics for Cloud Native Programming
The Ballerina language has come a long way with significant improvements since the 1.0 release in 2019. The latest Swan Lake release further simplifies building and deploying cloud native apps.
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Building Effective Microservices with gRPC, Ballerina, and Go
gRPC is a relatively new implementation of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) API paradigm. It can play a major role in all synchronous communications between internal microservices. Here we examine key gRPC concepts, their usage, and benefits of having gRPC as an inter-service communication by using a real-world microservice use case.
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Rethinking Programming: Language and Platform for Cloud-Era Application Developers
Ballerina is an open source programming language, which focuses on improving the productivity of the latter group by providing necessary abstractions, tools, and platforms to create cloud native applications.