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Language-Level Reactivity with Elm

Reactive programming is becoming more prevalent in the JavaScript programming world. But, it's always added on as an afterthought or a library. But what if it could exist by default, inherent to the language? Richard Feldman shows how the Elm language is just that. Elm doesn't just try to make JavaScript better, it tries to rewrite the developer experience and make it inherently better.

Richard Feldman
on Oct 24, 2016
Cloud

The Three Generations of AWS

When building a new system on AWS we are faced with three architectural choices around application packaging, runtime service and load balancing service. This article looks at these three options, and concludes that the Amazon EC2 Container Service provides the best architectural option for today's applications.

Noah Zoschke
on Oct 21, 2016
Java

Testing RxJava

You are ready to explore reactive opportunities in your code but you are wondering how to test out the reactive idiom in your codebase. In this article Java Champion Andres Almiray provides techniques and tools for testing RxJava.

Andres Almiray
on Oct 18, 2016
Web Development

The SAM Pattern: Lessons Learned Building Functional Reactive Front-End Architectures

Modern User Experience requires an architecture that is able to continuously “react” not just to user inputs, but also to its broader environment. In this article, Jean-Jacques Dubray and Gunar C. Gessner talk about the lessons learned implementing the SAM pattern with different frameworks and libraries.

Jean-Jacques Dubray Gunar C. Gessner
on Oct 17, 2016
.NET

Implementation Strategies for the Repository Pattern with Entity Framework, Dapper, and Chain

This article will focus on the basic functionality that one would find in a typical repository created with .NET. We’ll look at both general functionality and how that functionality would be implemented using three different styles of ORM: Entity Framework, Dapper, and Tortuga Chain.

Jonathan Allen
on Oct 14, 2016
Development

Virtual Panel: Document and Description Formats for Web APIs

In this virtual panel we hear from 4 individuals deeply involved in the Web API space. Each of them has a unique take on the values, benefits, and costs of documentation and description formats in general, and provide their own unique perspective from their vantage points across the Web. They agree on one thing: something must be done to help developers find their way through the world of Web APIs

Benjamin Young
on Oct 14, 2016
Culture & Methods

Teaching Modern Software Development Techniques at University

We often hear how there is a skills shortage in the software industry, and about the apparent gap between what people are taught in university and the “real world”. This is how Imperial College London aims to bridge this gap, providing students with relevant skills for industrial software engineering careers, and teaching tools and techniques for professional developer working in a modern team.

Robert Chatley
on Oct 11, 2016
Java

Java 9, OSGi and the Future of Modularity (Part 2)

The flagship feature of Java 9 will be the new Java Platform Module System (JPMS). Given the maturity of OSGi there were technical, political and commercial reasons why another Java module system will soon exist. In this article we compare the two from a technical perspective and see how JPMS and OSGi can work together.

Kai Hackbarth Neil Bartlett
on Oct 04, 2016
Development

An Open API Initiative Update

The Open API Initiative group is evolving what has become the de-facto standard API Description Format to produce a consistent and compatible format for describing APIs, allowing interoperation between tooling, systems, and runtime environments. Tony Tam, creator of the popular Swagger Specification is providing an update on the group activity.

Deepak Nadig
on Sep 30, 2016
.NET

On Abstractions and For-Each Performance in C#

Donald Knuth famously said, “We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time”. But when faced with the other 3%, it is good to know what’s going on behind the scenes. So in this article we’ll be taking a dive into the foreach loop.

Jonathan Allen
on Sep 29, 2016
Java

RXJava by Example

In the ongoing evolution of paradigms for simplifying concurrency under load, the most promising addition is reactive programming, a specification that provides tools for handling asynchronous streams of data and for managing flow-control, making it easier to reason about overall program design. In this article we overcome the learning curve with a gentle progression of examples.

Victor Grazi
on Sep 27, 2016
Java

Java 9, OSGi and the Future of Modularity (Part 1)

The flagship feature of Java 9 will be the new Java Platform Module System (JPMS). Given the maturity of OSGi there were technical, political and commercial reasons why another Java module system will soon exist. In this article we compare the two from a technical perspective and see how JPMS and OSGi can work together.

Kai Hackbarth Neil Bartlett
on Sep 22, 2016

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