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Groovy in 2014 and beyond
Guillaume Laforge presents the latest Groovy 2.3 release with its new features and performance improvements: "traits", new markup-based template engine, new code transformations, and more.
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Functional Systems @ Twitter
Marius Eriksen explains Twitter's experiences with functional programming (with Scala) @ Twitter: where functional techniques worked and where not. Also: how the Scala language has scaled with Twitter
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Groovy for System Administrators
Daniel Woods discusses Enterprise Operations which is seeing a shift in the management paradigm of infrastructure.
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Why Spark Is the Next Top (Compute) Model
Dean Wampler argues that Spark/Scala is a better data processing engine than MapReduce/Java because tools inspired by mathematics, such as FP, are ideal tools for working with data.
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How to Get Groovy with Java 8
Peter Ledbrook discusses the impact of the Java 8 language changes on Groovy applications and if Groovy still provides an edge in terms of developer productivity.
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Experiences Using Grails in a Microservice Architecture
Jeff Beck describes how Grails fits into a larger polyglot architecture and goes through his team's experiences building and maintaining these micro services.
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Android and Groovy, a Winning Pair?
Cedric Champeau tries to answer the question: "Android developers are used to develop applications in Java, so why Groovy, a JVM language, wouldn't be usable for Android development too?"
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Reactive APIs in Spray, Akka and Scala
Jan Machacek demos creating and using reactive APIs in Scala with Spray and Akka.
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Clojure Is the New C
Robert Martin argues that Clojure is a replacement for C with its simple syntax and minimal semantics.
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SpringOne Technical Keynote 1
Opening Night Keynote from SpringOne 2GX 2014. Topics include Spring IO and Microservices, Groovy 2.3 and 2.4 and Grails 3.0 plans.
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Teach Your Eye to Eat (Clojure)
Mario Aquino discusses the structure and organization of Clojure's Lisp syntax as well as special forms in the language for declaring data structures.
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Refactoring in Java, Scala, and Clojure
Glen Peterson uses the Expression Problem to compare refactoring in Java, Scala and Clojure, showing how traits minimize changes in Scala when an interface changes and how Clojure avoids some issues.