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Blazing Fast, Minimal Change - Speed up Your Code by Refactoring to Rust

Lily Mara takes an existing codebase and rewrites part of it in Rust, focusing on writing a Rust reimplementation, cross-language regression testing, performance benchmarking of the new code.

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InfoQ Software Architecture & Design Trends 2023

In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff will be discussing the current trends in software architecture and design, as part of the process to create our annual trends report. These reports provide the InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to, and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies.

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Orchestrating Hybrid Workflows with Apache Airflow

Ricardo Sueiras discusses how to leverage Apache Airflow to orchestrate a workflow using data sources inside and outside the cloud.

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How Visual Thinking Can Help Teams Get Clarity, Be More Creative, and Have More Inclusive Meetings

Visual thinking is a way of making sense of the world through images, putting thoughts into pictures. This article is here to help you understand about visual thinking, and how you could use it to support yourself and your teams to create a more inclusive, creative and collaborative culture at work.

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Accelerating the Secure Software Delivery Lifecycle with GitOps

Building secure software can be complicated and time-consuming. By employing a GitOps model, security can be safely separated from development simplifying the delivery process and increasing velocity.

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Oracle Proposes Deprecating Java's JavaScript Engine Nashorn

Oracle announced via JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 355 that the Nashorn JavaScript Engine will be deprecated and eventually removed from all future Java Development Kits (JDKs). With the rapid pace at which ECMAScript language constructs have changed, Oracle found the Nashorn JavaScript Engine challenging to maintain.

Kesha Williams
on Jun 14, 2018 4
Oracle Unveils Project Avatar at JavaOne

Oracle announced the open source release of Project Avatar during the JavaOne conference this past week. Avatar is a web application framework that is focused on building "modern HTML5 applications", while assuming "minor JavaScript knowledge" from application developers.

Dan Woods
on Sep 27, 2013
Nashorn Voted In as a Successor to Rhino in the OpenJDK Project

The current OpenJDK members have voted Oracle's Project Nashorn, a new JVM-based JavaScript implementation, as a successor to Rhino which is the current JVM JavaScript implementation. Nashorn is due for release with Java 8 in late 2013. It allows JavaScript to be embedded in Java applications and to develop standalone JavaScript applications.

Abhay Bakshi
on Jan 17, 2013
Nashorn Proposed as Replacement JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK

Oracle's multi-language lead Jim Laskey has proposed a new JVM-based JavaScript implementation, Nashorn, as an OpenJDK project.

Charles Humble
on Nov 29, 2012

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