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Piplin – A DSL for Describing Silicon in Clojure
David Greenberg introduces Piplin, a DSL that allows a subset of Clojure to be automatically converted into a hardware description, which can then be placed onto an FPGA or made into a silicon chip.
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Programming for the Expression of Ideas
Gerald Sussman explains how programming can help understand Analytical Mechanics, Differential Geometry, and General Relativity. While a work of art, a well-crafted program is an expression of an idea
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Shedding Light on the Cloud: Defining Clouds and Best Practices
Paul Weiss provides a step-by-step overview and comparison of on-premise, public, and hybrid clouds, explaining how to select the right cloud model.
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Code to Cloud: Continuous Delivery with Windows Azure
Justin Beckwith introduces several ways to deploy ASP.NET, Node, and PHP applications to Windows Azure, including git deployment, TFS deployment, continuous integration and custom scripts.
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Cut Your Cloud Bill - Techniques for Reducing the Cost of Cloud Computing
Richard Astbury provides practical steps and architecture decisions to optimize infrastructure for cost.
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Embedded Java and MQTT
Peter Niblett explains what MQTT is and how it compares with HTTP, showing how to program to it in Java and Eclipse Paho, and reporting on the current MQTT standardization status at OASIS.
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Design, Composition and Performance
Rich Hickey explores the nature of design and composition and how it impacts the software development practice and tools.
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Lean Engineering: Applying Lean Startup Principles at Paypal
Bill Scott details how they introduced Lean into their enterprise technology stack at Paypal.
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Lean'ing at Crowdtap
Kareem Kouddous presents using SOA, JavaScript MVC, continuous deployment and Kanban for the development of 12 applications.
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Building with Lean: A Cross-Functional Pairing Approach
Jono Mallanyk and Ben Burton discuss cross-functional pairing to design for building products quickly and effectively, advising when to use Lean, and tools and techniques they found useful.
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How a Graph Database Allows Shutl to Deliver Even Faster
Volker Pacher explains why Shutl chose Neo4j when faced with the need of building a new API meant to support business growth, the challenges met during implementation and solutions applied.
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What's Needed to Make 'Model-Driven' Mainstream?
Jürgen Mutschall ponders what is to be done to make MDSD a mandatory development methodology for every large scale project.