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How to Collect Pieces of Data

Pieces, a new JavaScript library I have created, takes these two problems of routing and page transitions and tackles them together. After all, they're both concerned with what happens when the app changes from one view to another. The idea is that the developer creates the individual pages and lets Pieces worry about everything involved in changing between them.

Martin Rixham
on Mar 24, 2020
Web Development

ING Open-Sources Lion, Its White-Label Web Component Library – Q&A with Thomas Allmer

Web components are now implemented by modern browsers. They are also increasingly popular in an enterprise context. ING adopted them from the beginning and recently open-sourced Lion, its component library which ING uses in most of its web applications, including on mobile. Thomas Allmer, Lion core contributor, explains the drivers of ING's usage of web components, and Lion's design goals.

Thomas Allmer Bruno Couriol
on Mar 20, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book AI Crash Course

The book AI Crash Course by Hadelin de Ponteves contains a toolkit of four different AI models: Thompson Sampling, Q-Learning, Deep Q-Learning and Deep Convolutional Q-learning. It teaches the theory of these AI models and provides coding examples for solving industry cases based on these models.

Ben Linders Hadelin de Ponteves
on Mar 19, 2020
Development

Making Your Code Faster by Taming Branches

Most software code contains conditional branches. In code, they appear in if-then-else clauses, loops, and switch-case constructs. For better performance, modern processors predict the branch and execute the following instructions speculatively. It is a powerful optimization.

Daniel Lemire
on Mar 16, 2020
Culture & Methods

Maintaining Mental health on Software Development Teams

Working on a software development team often means dealing with stress, anxiousness, and tight deadlines. Research has shown developers to have considerably higher chances of experiencing mental health issues than their counterparts, who perform mechanical tasks. Check out these nuggets of wisdom for stabilizing developers’ mental health, shared by Beetroot’s HR psychologist.

Lena Kozar Vova Vovk
on Mar 14, 2020
Web Development

JavaScript and Web Development InfoQ Trends Report 2020

The web development space is always an interesting one for us, with new JavaScript projects launched almost daily. Trying to decide which ones to focus on and which ones to ignore is particularly challenging. Developers can learn and gather inspiration from interesting approaches even if they do not currently use them in their daily development efforts.

Dylan Schiemann Bruno Couriol
on Mar 12, 2020
Culture & Methods

Breaking through Three Common Engineering Myths

This article debunks three common myths that often plague engineers and may be holding them back from reaching their full potential, especially if they are a current or aspiring engineering leader. It also provides some actionable ideas you can implement right away to start making a shift in your own life away from these limiting beliefs.

Jeff Perry
on Mar 11, 2020
Java

Build Great Native CLI Apps in Java with Graalvm and Picocli

Compared to other choices, Java is not that convenient for creating simple command-line driven apps - largely due to the need to distribute a sizable runtime. The combination of GraalVM and Picocli aims to change that, by providing native compilation alongside an easy, modern way to handle command-line args.

Remko Popma
on Mar 07, 2020
DevOps

Multi-Runtime Microservices Architecture

Best practices have emerged around “microservice” architecture and “12-factor app” design. As cloud, containers, and container orchestrators (.g. Kubernetes) have become popular, new solutions to address common integration principles have emerged. This article discusses the approach of using "mecha" components to provide enterprise integration pattern functionality for microservices.

Bilgin Ibryam
on Feb 27, 2020
Java

Tutorial: Writing Microservices in Kotlin with Ktor—a Multiplatform Framework for Connected Systems

Ktor (pronounced Kay-tor) is a framework built from the ground up using Kotlin and coroutines. It is a great fit for applications that require HTTP and/or socket connectivity. These can be HTTP backends and RESTful systems, whether or not they’re architectured in a microservice approach.

Hadi Hariri
on Feb 25, 2020
Web Development

Functional UI - a Model-Based Approach

Functional UI techniques rely on the functional relation between events processed by the user interface and the actions performed by the interface. If the user interface has discrete modes in which its behavior can be expressed simply, a modelization with state machines is an advantageous functional UI technique. This article explains the technique, its benefits and how it is used in the industry.

Bruno Couriol
on Feb 22, 2020
Development

Software, Aesthetics, and Craft: How Java, Lisp, and Agile Shape and Reflect Their Culture

The software industry styles itself on architecture and construction, but rarely discusses aesthetics.

Ian Miell
on Feb 21, 2020

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