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PHP on the Metal with HHVM
Keith Adams shares details on building HHVM, a PHP VM built by Facebook, along with lessons learned doing it and tuning it for high performance.
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Ozma: Extending Scala with Oz Concurrency
Sébastien Doeraene introduces Ozma – Scala extension providing declarative concurrency – with code samples, and explores what it takes to port it to JVM.
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Cloud Foundry Bootcamp
Josh Long and Eric Bottard cover the basics of Cloud Foundry PaaS, how to use it, how to install and use Micro Cloud Foundry, including hands on installation troubleshooting.
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Formal Specification of a JavaScript Module System
In this paper, we propose a formal specification of a JavaScript module system. A module system for JavaScript will allow safe and incremental development of JavaScript web applications.
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Erlang Web Development with Yaws
Steve Vinoski overviews Yaws with code samples to highlight some of its features. Steve also discusses internals of Yaws, and how powerful Erlang can be for web development and distributed systems.
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3 Things You Need to Turn Your Enterprise Into A Platform
Laura Merling shares advice in building a software platform for the enterprise based on 3 ideas: Product to Sell, Self-Service with Full Service, Things in Common.
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Functional Design Patterns
Stuart Sierra discusses several design patterns implemented in functional languages, in particular Clojure: State/Event, Consequences, Accumulator, MapReduce, Reduce/Combine, Recursive Expansion, etc.
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Timelines at Scale
Raffi Krikorian explains the architecture used by Twitter to deal with thousands of events per sec - tweets, social graph mutations, and direct messages-.
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In-Memory Message & Trade Repositories
John Davies walks through a reference implementation of a in-memory database meant to combine dozens of different legacy databases developed by banks over time.
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(un)Common Sense
Mike Solomon shares some of the experiences and lessons learned scaling YouTube over the years.
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Performance Testing Java Applications
Martin Thompson explores performance testing, how to avoid the common pitfalls, how to profile when the results cause your team to pull a funny face, and what you can do about that funny face.
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High Performance Messaging for Web-Based Trading Systems
Frank Greco investigates WebSocket and how trading systems can be designed to leverage it for reliability, security and performance for desktop, mobile, datacenter and cloud environments.