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CouchDB
CouchDB is a schema-free document database. But now that the NoSQL movement is in full swing, there are several document databases to choose from, so why choose Couch?
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Rapid RIA with Spring and Flex
Jeremy Grelle explains how to combine Spring with Flex in order to create RIA applications using BlazeDS, LiveCycle Data Services, Spring BlazeDS Integration and Flex Addon for Spring Roo.
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Monads Made Easy
Jim Duey demystifies monads through code examples written in Clojure, explaining what monads are, how they are used and how to write one.
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League of Legends: Scaling to Millions of Ninjas, Yordles, and Wizards
Scott Delap and Randy Stafford explain the architectural decisions made in order to scale, monitor and operate the game League of Legends, bringing insight on how they use Oracle Coherence for that.
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Everything I've Ever Learned, I Learned from Failure
Robert Myers talks about the role played by failure in Agile development, sharing a number of Lean and Agile practices helping to embrace failure and showing how to interpret the feedback received.
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Implementing SOA through Linked Data
Thomas Bandholtz explains how Linked Data can be used to implement SOA in order to make datasets available throughout the enterprise, crosslink distributed datasets, and to master data management.
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Scaling the Social Graph: Infrastructure at Facebook
Jason Sobel presents the evolution of Facebook’s infrastructure over time, from the original LAMP stack to the present multi-datacenter configuration, the challenges faced and plans for the future.
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Parallel Programming Patterns: Data Parallelism
Ralph Johnson presents several data parallelism patterns, including related Java, C# and C++ libraries from Intel and Microsoft, comparing it with other forms of parallelism such as actor programming.
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Personal Retrospectives: Self-acquaintance and Agility
Ainsley Nies explains how to perform a personal retrospective: Clarify the Purpose, Assess Decision-making Influences, Gather Data, Distill the Learning and Transform Leaning into Plans.
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Code Generation on the JVM: Writing Code that Writes Code
Hamlet D`Arcy demonstrates some of the Groovy tools useful to increase productivity by generating code at compile time: Project Lombok and AST Transforms.
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Get Satisfaction Uses Ruby on Rails and Cloud Computing Platform to Achieve Scalability and Reliability
Thor Muller presents how Get Satisfaction managed to reliably scale their Ruby on Rails-based customer community platform using Agile, TDD, BDD, and by deploying their framework in the cloud.
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Concurrent and Distributed Applications with Spring
David Syer and Mark Fisher on using Spring to develop concurrent and distributed apps, covering topics such as: asynchronous execution, intra-process, inter-process and inter-JVM communication.
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