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“Batteries Included” - Advantages of an End-to-end JavaScript Stack
Juergen Fesslmeier discusses the advantages of using a complete JavaScript stack in order to create business web applications demoing creating such an app with Wakanda.
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Fear No More: Embrace Eventual Consistency
Sean Cribbs compares ACID with BASE, explaining the virtues and tradeoffs of eventually consistent systems and what developers should know in order to feel comfortable working with EC systems.
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Deconstructing the Database
Rich Hickey deconstructs the monolithic database into separate services, transactions, storage, query, combining them with a data model based on atomic facts to provide new capabilities and tradeoffs.
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SPDY, err... HTTP 2.0: What Is It, How, Why, and When?
Roberto Peon introduces SPDY which is the starting point for HTTP 2.0, a standard in development, explaining why a new HTTP standard is needed and how SPDY helps.
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Visual Interfaces in ClojureScript
Kevin Lynagh provides the rationale behind visual interfaces, and presents a sample example written in ClojureScript.
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Cognitive Architectures: A Way Forward for the Psychology of Programming
Michael Hansen presents the ACT-R cognitive architecture, a simulation framework for psychological models, showing how it could be used to measure the impact of various programming paradigms.
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Zen and the Art of Live Programming
Sam Aaron promotes the benefits of Live Programming using interactive editors, REPL sessions, real-time visuals and sound, live documentation and on-the-fly-compilation.
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What They Don’t Teach You About Running a Business When Taking Your CS Degree
Francesco Cesarini shares business lessons learnt while growing Erlang Solutions from a one man band to a multinational company with 70 employees, offices in 3 countries, and clients on 5 continents.
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How to Build Big Data Pipelines for Hadoop Using OSS
Costin Leau discusses Big Data, current available tools for dealing with it, and how Spring can be used to create Big Data pipelines.
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Building a Reliable Data Store
Jeremy Edberg presents the data stores used by Netflix and Reddit, some of the best practices and lessons for surviving outages.
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Spring Data REST: Easily Export JPA Entities Directly to the Web
Jon Brisbin explains how to expose JPA entities via the Spring Data Repository abstraction and then exporting them to HTTP using Spring Data REST.
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The Rise of the Internet Service Bus
Jaime Ryan discusses the rise of the Internet Service Bus based on the current global trends and requirements, making an analogy with the birth and evolution of the ESB.