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Designing for Concurrency: the Hilbert’s Hotel Problem in Go

In this article, we want to show how achieving concurrency is the result of an appropriate design. A concurrent solution may turn out to be more elegant and easier to reason about than an equivalent sequential algorithm. To illustrate these concepts we use, as an example, the Hilbert’s Hotel mathematical problem.

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Expanding GraphQL Federation at Netflix with Tejas Shikhare

GraphQL can be a great choice for client to server communication, but it requires investment to maximize its potential. Netflix operates a very large, Federated GraphQL platform. Like any distributed system, this has some benefits, but also creates additional challenges. In this episode, Tejas Shikhare explains the pros and cons of scaling GraphQL adoption.

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Resilient Real-Time Data Streaming across the Edge and Hybrid Cloud

Kai Waehner explores different architectures and their trade-offs for transactional and analytical workloads. Real-world examples include financial services, retail, and the automotive industry.

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Hiring and Retaining Great People in the New World of Working

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sarah Hawley of Growmotely about employing and retaining people in the remote and hybrid working world.

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Hard-Won Lessons from the Trenches: Failure Modes of Platform Engineering — And How to Avoid Them

Platform Engineering is a hot topic with many orgs hoping to reap the benefits. However, it is easy to go astray. This article reviews the common pitfalls of building a platform and how to avoid them.

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Racket 6.5 Brings Improved Typed Racket, Faster Iteration, and More

Racket, a multi-paradigm programming language belonging to the Lisp/Scheme family, has reached version 6.5, writes Ryan Culpepper on Racket blog. The new version adds several new features, including improvements to typed/untyped code interaction, faster iteration on hash tables and sets, and more.

Sergio De Simone
on May 10, 2016
Mozilla Sweet.js: Extending JavaScript with Macros

Mozilla Sweet.js enables developers to enrich JavaScript by adding new syntax to the language through the use of macros. This helps developers to customize the JavaScript syntax for their style, or to expand it by creating a new JavaScript-based DSL useful for their niche domain.

Abel Avram
on Oct 19, 2012 2
Scala Adding Macros to the Language

The team behind Scala is adding an experimental version of macros in the forthcoming release version 2.10. Scala macros provide an advanced form of compile-time meta-programming.

Josh Suereth
on Jul 13, 2012 8
Macros Have Been Dropped from Visual Studio 11

As of version 11, macros will no longer be available in Visual Studio. This marks the first version in nearly a decade to not allow for crating ad-hock extensions to the IDE. Fully compiled extensions can still be created and new project templates are included to make that process much easier.

Jonathan Allen
on Oct 04, 2011 5

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