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Java SE 8 for Tablets, Pis, and Legos
Stephen Chin demos Java SE Embedded’s support for ARM processors and Java SE 8 running on consumer tablets, embedded devices such as Raspberry Pi and PandaBoard, and the new Lego Mindstorms EV3.
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Erlang Patterns Matching Business Needs
Torben Hoffmann shares a number of patterns from Erlang systems, modeled through Object-Process Methodology, discussing their impact on business needs.
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Spring Boot ... Tweeting Complete Spring Applications Since 2013
Rob Winch introduces Spring Boot, showing how to create the first app with it and explaining how it works under the hood.
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The Art of Building Tools–A Language Engineering Perspective
Markus Völter suggests and illustrates creating development environments based on language workbenches that provide a generic infrastructure and can be easily extended and composed.
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That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp
Rick Reed shares scalability and reliability insights, techniques, and hacks used and learned developing WhatsApp on an Erlang/FreeBSD infrastructure.
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Caml Trading - Experiences with OCaml on Wall Street
Jane Street runs a large trading business on software written almost entirely in OCaml, a statically typed functional language. Yaron Minsky shows the reasons for choosing Ocaml and how it worked out.
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Getting Sassy with CSS
Julie Cameron introduces Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets, a CSS meta-language and precompiler, covering nesting, variables, mixins, inheritance, directives, gotchas, tools, extensions, and tips.
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ECMAScript 6: What's Next for JavaScript?
Axel Rauschmayer explains how to use some of ECMAScript 6' features today: block-scoped variables, arrow functions, better parameter handling, classes, modules and more.
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Have You Seen Spring Lately?
Josh Long introduces some of the latest Spring features supporting HATEOAS-compliant and OAuth-secured REST services, NoSQL and Big Data, Websockets, OAuth, open-web security and mobile.
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Do Not Block Threads! A Blessing in Disguise or a Curse?
Sadek Drobi discusses how to use Futures and Iteratees to deal with blocking threads in a system with many IO calls and heavy threads.
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Finance's Forgotten Treasure: an Introduction to CQRS & Axon
Allard Buijze introduces CQRS and related concepts along with case studies showing how it is used in finance, gaming and healthcare to meet the demands of modern web-based applications.
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Why I've Come to Prefer Fluent APIs Over Other Kinds of DSLs
John Slaby discusses the reasons why he prefers fluent APIs and examine, through examples, the many different ways that Fluent APIs can be used to help produce better solutions than external DSLs.