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Developing Modular JavaScript Components

While most web applications these days employ an abundance of JavaScript, keeping client-side functionality focused, robust and maintainable remains a significant challenge. This article will present an example of evolving a simple widget from a largely unstructured code base to a reusable component.

Frederik Dohr
on Dec 13, 2013
Inter-thread communications in Java at the speed of light

Developing a light-weight, lockless, inter-thread communication framework in Java without using any locks, synchronizers, semaphores, waits, notifies; and no queues, messages, events or any other concurrency specific words or tools. Just get POJOs communicating behind plain old Java interfaces.

Aliaksei Papou
on Dec 10, 2013
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2013

This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon San Francisco 2013 as blogged and tweeted by attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 19 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team. The publishing schedule can be found on the QCon San Francisco web site.

Abel Avram
on Dec 10, 2013
Implementing High Performance Parsers in Java

On certain occasions you will need to build your own parser, eg if there is nothing standard that fits the bill. This article walks through the steps of building a high performance parser

Jakob Jenkov
on Dec 09, 2013
Exposing CQRS Through a RESTful API

Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is an architectural pattern that segregates reads and writes of a system into two separate models. We propose and demonstrate an approach for building a RESTful API on top of CQRS systems. This approach joins HTTP semantics and resource-based style of REST APIs with distributed computing concerns such as eventual consistency and concurrency.

Ali Kheyrollahi
on Dec 09, 2013
Writing Automated Tests with Jazz Automation

Jazz Automation is a testing framework built to automate and speed up acceptance/functional testing for all types of web based systems or static websites and in any industry. It also lends itself to easily implement automated integration testing. Historically this type of testing has been all manual, labor intensive, and inaccurate.

Dedrick Boyd
on Dec 07, 2013
Beyond Data Mining

In this article, author talks about the need for a change in the predictive modeling community’s focus and compares the four types of data mining: algorithm mining, landscape mining, decision mining, and discussion mining.

Tim Menzies
on Dec 06, 2013
To Execution profile or to Memory Profile? That is the question.

There are times when memory profiling will provide a clearer picture than execution profiling to find execution hot spots. In this article Kirk Pepperdine talks through some indicators for determining when to use which kind of profiler.

Kirk Pepperdine
on Dec 04, 2013
Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot to Access Data in an Aerospike Cluster

Spring Boot allows you to build Spring based applications with little effort on your part. Aerospike is a distributed and replicated in-memory database that is ACID compliant. This article will take you through creating a simple RESTful web service with Spring Boot and Aerospike.

Peter Milne
on Nov 28, 2013
Contrasting Backbone and Angular

Victor Savkin presents in detail the pros and cons of using Backbone.js and Angular.js to create web applications, comparing the two frameworks with each other.

Victor Savkin
on Nov 26, 2013
What’s Next in Software Analytics

In this article, a panel of experts in software analytics discuss the important and overlooked aspects of the software analytics field. Topics covered include what software analytics mean to the developers, practitioners, and information analysts and the opportunities for “natural” software analytics based on statistical natural language processing (NLP).

Ahmed E. Hassan Martin Shepperd Abram Hindle Prem Devanbu Per Runeson Sunghun Kim
on Nov 20, 2013
Author Q&A: Java Coding Guidelines

Most developers agree that there is a need to write secure code, but often find that the pressures of getting something shipped can constrain their ability to do so. Others may just not know where to start. InfoQ had the opportunity to speak with the authors of Java Coding Guidelines to discuss how their new book can help developers write better code.

Jeff Martin
on Nov 18, 2013

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