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Grails and the Real-time Web
Stephane Maldini on addressing several issues concerning web applications written with Grails: scrolling large data sets without blocking, streaming to the browser, scale Grails in the cloud, etc.
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Getting Pushy: Pushing Data from Server to Browser
David Pollak presents Lift's design and how the same design decisions were applied to Clojure/ClojureScript/AngularJS. Lift is a web framework with support for server-push.
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Native Speed on the Web: JavaScript and asm.js
Alon Zakai discusses asm.js - real-world demos, current limitations, the direction for the future, comparison with other solutions for improving web performance.
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Core.async - Communicating Sequential Processes using Channels, in Clojure
Rich Hickey presents the motivation, design and use of the Clojure core.async library, the reasons for choosing the CSP approach and how it helps to structure applications.
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One Backend Per User: 100% Data Privacy / 0 Scaling Issues
Michiel de Jong suggests solving the data privacy and scalability issues by enabling mobile apps to connect to user's preferred back-end using Dropbox.js, GDrive JS, NimbusBase, remoteStorage.io, etc.
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Node.js Tools For Your Grails Toolbox
Zan Thrash advises on using some of the Node.js tools in order to improve Grails development: lint, concat, minify, testing JavaScript files, etc.
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BDD Using Cucumber JVM and Groovy
Marco Vermeulen explains using Cucumber and Groovy to apply BDD to a project, using Gherkin for writing scenarios, Groovy for step definitions, Spock for new features, and running Cucumber features.
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The Art of Builds - An In-depth Comparison of Build Tools
Hans Dockter discusses build systems from a declarative vs. imperative perspective, the importance of a rich execution model and problems with POM, providing examples from Gradle, Maven and Ant.
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Application Architecture in Groovy
Dan Woods presents the strengths and flexibility in Groovy, including its dynamic nature, categories and mixins, to create a powerful, maintainable, and simple application architecture.
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Web Apps in Clojure and ClojureScript with Pedestal
Brenton Ashworth introduces the Pedestal application library as a way to build rich collaborative applications in Clojure and ClojureScript.
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Noether: Symmetry in Programming Language Design
Daira Hopwood introduces Noether, an experimental language meant to write more secure, robust and efficient programs, being built on multiple layers satisfying different levels of symmetries.
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Building an Optimising Compiler for Dart
Vyacheslav Egorov details how some of Dart's language features affected the design of a new JIT Dart compiler and how the V8 JavaScript engine influenced the overall design.
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