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Architecture and Design Are So Important
Scott Ambler explains the pros/cons of daily just-in-time architectural modeling and a TDD approach to design level, advising through examples on integrating these techniques into development.
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From Agility to Anti-Fragility - A Practitioner's Guide
Nick Zhu & Sharan Karanth introduce a thought framework, based on Anti-Fragility, that can be used to describe, explain, and tune Agile, Lean as well as Continuous Delivery practices.
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Making Java Groovy
Ken Kousen advises Java developers how to do similar tasks in Groovy: building and testing applications, accessing both relational and NoSQL databases, accessing web services, and more.
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Uncle Sam's Guide to Grails Security
Joe Rinehart discusses some of the essential security topics for Grails/Java Web applications, showing how Grails can make life easier and the pitfalls of attempting to secure highly dynamic code.
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Functional Vectors, Maps, and Sets in Julia
Zach Allaun shows how to build a functional and persistent vector, hash map, and set on top of the same data structure, and how to optimize the code for performance.
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Continuum: A JS (ES6) VM Written in JS (ES3)
Brandon Benvie introduces Continuum, what it does, how it works, and why it's useful. Continuum maintains compatibility with all popularly used JS engines in use today (IE8, modern browsers, Node.js).
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Axiomatic Language
Axiomatic language is based on the idea that the external behavior of a program can be defined by an infinite set of symbolic expressions that enumerate all possible inputs, along with the outputs.
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Everything I Learned About Scaling Online Games I Learned at Google and eBay: Scalability at KIXEYE
Randy Shoup shares war stories from eBay and Google about performance, consistency, iterative development, and autoscaling, connecting them with experiences building KIXEYE's gaming platform.
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Top 10 - Performance Folklore
Martin Thompson discusses Java, concurrency, operating systems, and functional programming in the context of designing and testing high-performance systems.
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Web Clustering, Integration with Terracotta, Quartz & Grails 2
Ryan Vanderwerf explains setting up Terracotta and clustering an applications using Ehcache, HTTP Session in Tomcat, and Quartz.
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Turtle Graphics in Groovy - Extending Groovy with DSL techniques
Jim Driscoll shows how to create Napili, a small program accepting user scripts to control a turtle using GroovyShell, the Binding, overriding behavior with set/getVariable and invokeMethod, and more.
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Design Patterns in Groovy
Venkat Subramaniam shows how to implement several design patterns, including some GoF ones, using Groovy’s dynamic nature and closures.