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  • Turbocharge React with GraphQL

    GraphQL and React are two Facebook technologies that have grown up together. In this article, Shane Stillwell shows how GraphQL, a strongly-typed JavaScript-based language, helps developers build relationships with their data and improves marshaling across service boundaries. GraphQL is extensible, works alongside REST, and can be implemented in any back-end software solution.

  • Escaping Method Prison

    Methods are our best tool to get great software. But today they put us in method prisons with method wars, reliance on gurus and swings from method to method. How foolish is this? It needs to be stopped. The new Essence standard efficiently stops that path. And, teams get better methods, selected from a practice library and support in their daily work. Executives get forever learning org’s.

  • GitLab's CEO Sid Sijbrandij on Current Development Practices

    In this all-round interview, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij speaks about how GitLab was born, what differentiates it from its competitors, the importance of being an "open" company, how GitLab engineers use continuous integration, what being a remote-only company means, and much more.

  • Introducing Reladomo - Enterprise Open Source Java ORM, Batteries Included! (Part 2)

    Goldman Sachs is widely known as a leader in investment banking, but they are very much a leading technology firm as well. Continuing our exploration of Reladomo, the primary Java ORM used at GS and now open source, GS Technology Fellow, Mohammad Rezaei looks at advanced features, such as sharding, caching, bitemporal access, performance, and testing.

  • Benchmarks Don't Have to Die

    Are tracing and profiling the future of performance engineering outside of the fast-moving JavaScript community? Do all benchmarks have a shelf-life? In this article, Matt Fleming talks about benchmarks and what keeps the good ones alive and why others die. By adapting benchmarks, they can live forever.

  • A Roadmap to the Programmable World

    The emergence of millions of remotely programmable devices in our surroundings will pose significant challenges for software developers. This article proposes a roadmap from today’s cloud-centric, data-centric Internet of Things systems to the Programmable World highlights those challenges that haven’t received enough attention yet.

  • Under The Hood with the JVM's Automatic Resource Management

    The deprecation of Object::finalize is an unusual step for the Java ecosystem. We dive deep into the Hotspot JVM to see how it works. We also compare it to RAII and the Java 7, try-with-resources syntax. The article contrasts these very different approaches to automatic resource management, and explains why TWR should be used in place of finalization by application programmers.

  • Consensual Software: How to Prioritize User Safety

    This article covers how consensual software will help address online harassment and abuse vectors before they get out of hand. It also covers some features the GitHub Community & Safety team has built and how we review features from other teams.

  • Article Series: Reactive JavaScript

    Reactive programming techniques are becoming more prevalent in the constantly changing JavaScript landscape. This article series hopes to provide a snapshot of where we're at, sharing multiple techniques; variations on a theme. From new languages like Elm to the way Angular has adopted RxJS, there's something for every developer, no matter what they're working with.

  • Q&A with Paul Daniels and Luis Atencio on RxJS in Action

    RxJS In Action provides a solid introduction to RxJS and lays out what the future of reactive JavaScript programming looks like. In this Q&A session, authors Paul Daniels and Luis Atencio talk more about RxJS, where it fits into the JavaScript landscape and how it affects JavaScript developers.

  • The Microgaming Idea Factory: Innovation in Practice within a Leading Online Gaming Software Company

    It’s easy to get so bogged down in the pressure of daily work that we don’t have time to think creatively or space to implement ideas. We talk about empowering staff, but few are offered any opportunity to innovate outside their direct role. Microgaming built the Microgaming Idea Factory to ensure innovation was company-wide. Winner of The Spark Award 2017, sponsored by hotelbeds.

  • Pascal Desmarets on NoSQL Data Modeling Best Practices

    NoSQL databases are specialized to store different types of data like Key Value, Documents, Column Family, Time Series, Graph, and IoT data. Pascal Desmarets talks about how to perform data modeling in NoSQL databases compared to the modeling in Relational databases.

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