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  • The Lean Machine: Bringing Agile Thinking to the Database

    For some years now, Agile practices have been attracting application developers with their promise of short iterations, fast releases, and software that gets out there sooner. Those same practices are now entering the database space, but how can database development teams adapt, and where should they start?

    Matt Hilbert
    on Aug 05, 2015

  • Project Jigsaw is Really Coming in Java 9

    Eight years in the making, Project Jigsaw is finally coming to Java 9. With the potential to introduce breaking changes to your code, modularization will certainly change the way we think about our projects and the JDK itself. In this article, Nicolai Parlog tells us what we need to know and what we need to do to prepare

    Nicolai Parlog
    on Aug 04, 2015

  • EIP Designer: Bridging the Gap Between EA and Development

    This article presents the EIP Designer project, an Eclipse-based tool for introducing integration patterns into an EA design, providing fluidity and continuity while filling the gap existing between EA practices and concrete software development.

    Laurent Broudoux
    on Aug 02, 2015

  • WebSocket: Bringing Desktop Agility to Web Application

    Web applications are a critical part of life, yet the user experience is lacking compared to native or desktop applications. To improve the experience, web applications can stop relying on the one-way HTTP protocol and embrace WebSocket. With this technology, applications can provide a truly interactive experience.

    Dmitriy Rogatkin
    on Jul 30, 2015
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    Build High Performance JVM Microservices with Ratpack & Spring Boot

    Ratpack and Spring Boot offer powerful platforms in the JVM ecosystem for building microservices that garner an unparalleled merger of performance and extensibility. Ratpack microservices and Spring Boot's convention-over-configuration succinctly leverage Spring Data to create data driven RESTful HTTP APIs in a lightweight, cloud native deployment.

    Dan Woods
    on Jul 28, 2015

  • Java 9's New HTTP/2 and REPL

    Java 9 will not just be about modularity; it is targeting a large number of additional pieces of functionality. In this article Ben Evans dives into HTTP/2 support and the JShell REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) that brings shell-based interactive Java development, two new JEPs that may well have the biggest impact on developers' working lives during the lifetime of Java 9.

    Ben Evans
    on Jul 21, 2015

  • The Practice and Future of Release Engineering

    This article features highlights from interviews with release engineers on the state of the practice and challenges in release engineering space. The interview questions cover topics like release engineering metrics, continuous delivery's benefits and limitations.

    Tamara Marshall-Keim Christian Bird Foutse Khomh Bram Adams Kim Moir Stephany Bellomo
    on Jul 19, 2015

  • Integrating Raft into JGroups

    JGroups has many features that could be useful to a robust Raft consensus based implementation. In this article, Ugo Landini takes us through a project to implement a Raft consensus based algorithm on top of JGroups, which could be really a nice addition in many different use cases.

    Ugo Landini
    on Jul 14, 2015

  • Programming with Semantic Profiles: In the Land of Magic Strings, the Profile-Aware is King

    As this article’s author, Mark Foster, puts it, "Absent profiles, the API space will be relegated to blindly passing around 'magic strings, fooling ourselves into thinking we are passing reliable semantic information." Here, Foster — one of the editors of the ALPS specification — explains what semantic profiles are and how they can transform the way Web APIs are desgined and implemented.

    Mark Foster
    on Jul 11, 2015

  • Lessons Learned Adopting Microservices at Gilt, Hailo and nearForm

    This article contains an extensive interview on the microservices adoption process, the technologies used, the benefits and difficulties of implementing microservices, with representatives from Gilt, Hailo and nearForm.

    Abel Avram
    on Jul 07, 2015

  • User Story Driven Docs

    At OutSystems we stopped trying to document the UI and started doing user story driven documentation. In this article I'll tell you why you should avoid document the UI, and how to check if you're already doing it. I'll also tell you how focusing on user stories changed our team's culture, and the process we're currently using to create documentation for OutSystems Platform.

    Joao Fernandes
    on Jul 03, 2015

  • Profiles on the Web: An Interview with Erik Wilde

    Erik Wilde talks to Mike Amundsen about Profiles, Description, Documentation, Discovery, his Sedola project and the future of Web-level metadata for APIs.

    Mike Amundsen
    on Jul 02, 2015
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