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Donkey: a Highly-Performant HTTP Stack for Clojure
Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Finally, we will discuss Clojure and immutability, and some of our design decisions.
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Writing Firebase Apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux Using Electron
Electron-Firebase provides a quickstart framework for building cloud-connected applications on Windows, macOS, and Linux. By integrating Electron and Firebase, just a few configuration settings allow you to include a complete authentication workflow into your app using email/password, phone number, Google, Facebook, or many other identity providers.
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Go Language at 13 Years: Ecosystem, Evolution, and Future in Conversation with Steve Francia
Go was started more than a decade ago in the Engineering department at Google. It was designed with the purpose of providing an easy-to-learn programming language that would allow to develop Google's systems at the next level. In the past decade, the language became more and more stable, currently being used for implementing some of the most popular tools on the web (Kubernetes, Terraform etc.).
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InfoQ 2020 Recap, Editor Recommendations, and Best Content of the Year
As 2020 is coming to an end, we created this article listing some of the best posts published this year. This collection was hand-picked by nine InfoQ Editors recommending the greatest posts in their domain. It's a great piece to make sure you don't miss out on some of the InfoQ's best content.
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C# 9 and .NET 5: Book Review and Q&A
The book C# 9 and .NET 5 by Mark Price is a practical guide on developing .NET cross-platform applications. The book is concise, implementation-oriented, and each subject is presented with a hands-on walkthrough. The author covers the main types of applications that can be built with C# 9 and .NET 5. InfoQ reviewed the book and interviewed Price on the goals and contents of the book.
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Microsoft and the State of Quantum: Q&A with Mariia Mykhailova
Quantum computing can be used to solve large compute problems on small data in areas such as chemistry and materials science. InfoQ interviewed Mariia Mykhailova, a senior software engineer in the Quantum Systems group at Microsoft, to better understand quantum computing, quantum software development, and Microsoft's latest efforts towards this area.
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Why DSLs? A Collection of Anecdotes
Two years ago, I gave a talk on one of the systems discussed here. Together with a colleague, I explained the business case, the technical benefits, why a regular programming language would not work and the all-around positive outcomes of using the DSLs, plus some of the problems we’ve run into.
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What’s New on F#: Q&A With Phillip Carter
Last month, at the 2020 edition of .NET Conf, Microsoft released the latest version of F#. F# is as functional-first, cross-platform, open-source .NET programming language, and it’s developed by Microsoft and several open source partners and contributors. InfoQ interviewed Phillip Carter, program manager at Microsoft, to talk about functional programming, F#, and the new features of F# 5.
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Q&A on the Book Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends and Strategies
The book Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends and Strategies by Tim Rains provides an overview of the threat landscape over a twenty year period. It provides insights and solutions that can be used to develop an effective cybersecurity strategy and improve vulnerability management.
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A Seven-Step Guide to API-First Integration
For a successful digital transformation project, following an API-first approach is more effective and future proof than using an integration-first approach.
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Q&A on the Book Competing with Unicorns
The book Competing with Unicorns by Jonathan Rasmusson explores the culture of tech unicorns like Google, Amazon, and Spotify, and dives into the techniques and practices that they use to develop software.
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Running React Applications at the Edge with Cloudflare Workers - Q&A with Josh Larson
Running web applications at the edge shortens the latency observed by users of web applications. Flareact is an edge-rendered React framework built for Cloudflare Workers and inspired by Next.js. Flareact currently supports file-based page routing, dynamic page paths, API routes, cache policy configuration, and edge-side data fetching APIs.