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fog or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cloud
Wesley Beary introduces fog, a Ruby library for accessing cloud resources from multiple vendors, including a mocking framework for testing purposes.
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Why CouchDB?
Benjamin Young introduces CouchDB, it’s schema-less data store, REST API, HTTP-based replication, plugins such as R-tree and GeoCouch, ways to scale it out and then scaling down with mobile solutions.
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CoffeeScript, the Rise of "Build Your Own JavaScript"
Jeremy Ashkenas discusses CoffeeScript, making an introduction to the language and demoing some of its features.
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Concurrent Caching at Google
Charles Fry presents MapMaker, an in-memory caching solution on the JVM, discussing its API and implementation evolution along with internal details.
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On Distributed Failures (and handling them with Doozer)
Blake Mizerany presents various ways that can lead to system failure in distributed systems and how to recover using Doozer, a highly available, consistent data store.
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Mirah for Android Development
Brendan Ribera introduces Mirah, a JVM-based programming language with a Ruby-like syntax, type inference, closures, meta-programming, macros, showing how to use it for Android development.
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Dynalink: Dynamic Linker Framework for Languages on the JVM
Attila Szegedi discusses a framework which provides object registration and discoverability, overloaded method resolution, etc. for better inter-language communication on JVM using InvokeDynamic.
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The Mapping Dilemma
David Nolen critiques the tools, languages and methodologies used today from the perspective of solving the “mapping dilemma”, introducing match, a pattern matching library for Clojure.
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Distributed Systems: What Nobody Told You
Shaneal Manek tells the story of how things can go wrong with a distributed system which turned into a success after incorporating appropriate tools for monitoring, analytics, logging, security.
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Bringing Riak to the Mobile Platform
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses data models for Riak, a protocol for synchronizing key-values, and BucketDB, a mobile Riak client.
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Heresies and Dogmas in Software Development
Dean Wampler discusses the merits of several controversial issues: Goto, Design before Code, Design Patterns, Corba vs. REST, Object Middleware and ORMs, and Identifiers with Spaces.
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DataMapper on Infinispan: Clustered NoSQL
Lance Ball presents DataMapper, a Ruby ORM library, along with Infinispan, Hibernate Search, Lucene, all running on JBoss AS7 and accessed through TorqueBox, a JRuby application server.