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Making Hadoop Real Time with Scala & GridGain
Nikita Ivanov shows adding real-time capabilities to Hadoop through a demo application streaming word counting on a 2-nodes cluster.
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Clojure, Functional Programming and Data at uSwitch.com
Paul Ingles explains how Clojure’s approach to immutable data has helped uSwitch to treat everything as data and build many tools that operate on the same data without contention.
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Leiningen 2 - Humane build management for Clojure
John Stevenson introduces Leiningen 2, a build system for Clojure, explaining how to set it up and how to use it.
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Asynchronous to Real-time Web Programming
Nilanjan Raychaudhuri presents some of the asynchronous techniques (Comet, HTTP Streaming, WebSockets, Server events) and frameworks (Asyn servlets, vert.x, Play) for building large web applications.
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An Introduction to Logic Programming on the JVM with core.logic (Clojure)
Edmund Jackson discusses the Goals, Logic Variables, Constraints, and Compositions that form the foundation of Logic Programming using Clojure examples.
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Clever, Classless and Free
Håkan Råberg introduces Enumerable.java – an extension adding Lambdas to Java 5 – and shen.clj - used to compile Shen, a LISP variant, to Clojure.
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A Taxonomy of Scala
Jamie Allen explains some of the terminology encountered by Scala developers and not only: OO features, pattern matching, functional programming, actors, futures, tuples, implicits, type theory, etc.
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Compiling Scala to LLVM
Geoff Reedy informs on the current status of a LLVM backend for the Scala compiler project he’s working on, detailing on its design and implementation.
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Lessons from Functional Programming in Five Languages
Robert Rees shares lessons learned while using Clojure and applied them to other languages, Scala, JavaScript and Java.
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Monads for Normal People
Dustin Getz shows writing monads code explaining how they work and why they are useful.
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Clojure after the Honeymoon
Håkan Råberg and Jon Pither on introducing Clojure to an investment bank team having a large Java code, dealing with cultural differences, the lessons learned, and ways of dealing with legacy code.
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Akka Eye for the Spring Guy or Gal
Jan Machacek introduces writing Scala applications to Spring developers, demoing using Akka actors with mix-in composition, higher-order functions, higher-order kinds, and REST API.