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The Cuddly Throwable Application Server
Holly Cummins presents a getting-started-guide to the Internet of Things. What’s needed? How much does it cost? What’s the best way of making an embeddable device talk to the internet?
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A Brief History of Unicode
Alex Blewitt discusses the origins of Unicode, why UTF8 is important, how character sets have evolved over time and the role Unicode has had in the evolution of many languages.
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Micro-Benchmarking in Java
Ben Evans and Jim Gough introduce JMH, explaining how to use it and what is happening behind the scenes to make a benchmark as accurate as possible, and how to interpret the results.
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HotSpot under the Hood
Alex Blewitt presents how HotSpot represents Java objects in memory, how bytecode is compiled into native code to gain the fastest execution time, and how data structures have changed over time.
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Using Clojure and Neo4j to Build a Meetup Recommendation Engine
Mark Needham shows how a meetup recommendation engine using Neo4j and Clojure can be built from scratch, combining content-based and collaborative filtering using Cypher and Clojure.
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Faster Ruby, JS and Other Languages Using Graal and Truffle
Chris Seaton introduces Graal, Oracle Labs' new JIT compiler written in Java, enabling new research into optimizations, and Truffle, a framework for implementing languages that uses Graal.
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Applying Big Data
Graeme Seaton discusses the drivers behind Big Data initiatives and how to approach them using the vast amounts of data available.
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Introducing Apache Ignite
Christos Erotocritou introduces Apache Ignite, discussing how it is used to solve some of the most demanding scalability and performance challenges. He covers typical use cases and examples.
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Project Jigsaw in JDK 9: Modularity Comes to Java
Simon Ritter explains the impact Jigsaw will have on developers in terms of building their applications, as well as helping them to understand how things like encapsulation will change in JDK 9.
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Modular Java Applications with OSGi
Alex Blewitt introduces modularity in general, and the choices that OSGi made in bringing modularization to the JVM. He also looks ahead and asks how OSGi and Jigsaw will evolve in the future.
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Examining Low Pause Garbage Collection in Java
John Oliver takes a look at both G1 and Shenandoah, explaining how they work, what are their limitations, providing tuning advice. He also looks at recent and future changes to garbage collection.
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Understanding HotSpot JVM Performance with JITWatch
Chris Newland discusses performance-boosting techniques used by the JVM’s JIT and introduces JITWatch, a tool helping to get the best JVM performance for a code.
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