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Immutable Layers, Not (Just) Infrastructure
How splitting applications and infrastructure into separate immutable layers speeds up deployment times and increases resource density, while keeping the benefits of immutable infrastructure.
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Go in Action - Review and Q&A with the Author
Go in Action is a new book from Manning that aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Go, both its syntax and implementation, and its most common idioms. InfoQ has spoken with William Kennedy, author of the book.
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Philip Rathle on Neo4j 2.3 Graph Database Features and openCypher Initiative
Neo Technology, the company behind the graph NoSQL database Neo4j, recently released version 2.3 of the database. They also announced openCypher initiative to help with creating a standard graph query language. InfoQ spoke with Philip Rathle, VP of Products at Neo Technology, about the new features in the latest release of Neo4j and openCypher announcement.
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Bridging Microsoft Word and the Browser
HTML editors work fine for general formatting, but they don’t have all the capabilities that some businesses require. Creating graphics, diagrams, tracking changes and inserting comments are useful and come out of the box in Microsoft Word In this article, Prasadu Babu Dandu shows how to serve up Word documents as HTML.
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Q&A with Larry Maccherone on joining AgileCraft, Large Data Sets and Monte Carlo Forecasting
Larry Maccherone is a researcher who has focused on collecting and presenting real metrics for agile teams and using analytics to help teams get better at forecasting in uncertain environments. He recently joined AgileCraft as their Director of Analytics - he discussed the move, how AgileCraft is designed to gather data from many ALM tools and how analytics can be used effectively.
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Big Memory .NET Part 2 - Pile, Our Big Memory Solution for .NET
In part one, Leonid Ganeline introduced the concept of big memory and discussed why it is so hard to deal with in a .NET environment. In part two, Dmitriy Khmaladze describes their solution NFX Pile; a hybrid memory manager written in C# with 100% managed code.
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Big Data Solutions with MS SQL ColumnStore Index
Columnar data storage can offer significant performance improvements over the way database tables are traditionally stored, but they aren’t always faster. Aleksandr Shavlyuga explores the power, and limitations of SQL Server’s ColumnStore Indexes.
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Big Memory .NET Part 1 – The Challenges in Handling 1 Billion Resident Business Objects
This article describes the concept of Big Memory and concentrates on its applicability to managed execution models like the one used in Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime (CLR). A few different approaches are suggested to resolve GC pausing issues that arise when a managed process starts to store over a few million objects.
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Fighting Developer Fatigue with JNBridge
Developer fatigue is the overwhelming frustration felt by developers who are under pressure to keep current with a flood of new languages, libraries, frameworks, platforms and programming models. JNBridge offers a way to help alleviate developer fatigue by allowing you to mix the libraries you know with code written in the language you are learning.
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Projecting a Modular Future
In this article, the authors discuss modularity and projectional editing concepts used to design programming languages, using a language workbench (LWB) like Jetbrains' MPS. They discuss how they used these techniques in three different domains: embedded-software development, requirements engineering, and insurance rules.
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Big Data as a Service, an Interview with Google's William Vambenepe
Many of the Big Data technologies in common use originated from Google and have become popular open source platforms, but now Google is bringing an increasing range of big data services to market as part of its Google Cloud Platform. InfoQ caught up with Google's William Vambenepe, who's lead product manager for Big Data services to ask him about the shift towards service based consumption.
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APIs with Swagger : An Interview with Reverb’s Tony Tam
After a flurry of activity from thier open working group, Swagger 2.0 was officially released in September 2014. Our interview took place in March 2015, less than one year from the start of the 2.0 process and right after Reverb announced that the responsibliity for leading the future of the Swagger specification would be handed over to SmartBear, the Massachusetts-based software tools company.