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Unorthodox Paths to High Performance
Alex Rasmussen examines some lessons learned while building record-setting sorting systems at UC San Diego.
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Understanding Hardware Transactional Memory
Gil Tene talks about new speculative and optimistic locking mechanisms enabled by HTM (Hardware Transactional Memory), HTM's benefits and limitations, speculating on its future impact on concurrency.
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Safe Systems Programming in C# and .NET
Joe Duffy shares some of his key experiences from building an entire operating system in a C# dialect and dealing with errors and concurrency robustly, focusing on open source C# and .NET.
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Faster Ruby, JS and Other Languages Using Graal and Truffle
Chris Seaton introduces Graal, Oracle Labs' new JIT compiler written in Java, enabling new research into optimizations, and Truffle, a framework for implementing languages that uses Graal.
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WebAssembly: A New Compilation Target for the Web
Luke Wagner discusses the design of WebAssembly, how web developers can target WebAssembly, and future developments including language support and better integration with JavaScript and HTML.
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TDD is Not Just about Tests
Fabrizio Romano proposes using TDD to transform business requirements into tests, driving code and tests development in harmony.
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Escaping the Bikeshed with JSON-API
Rob Valk introduces the JSON-API 1.0 spec, taking a look at JVM ecosystem support for the standard with the katharsis.io library and its integration with the Mule runtime.
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The Joy of Microservices
Ian Cooper provides arguments for using microservices, why they are useful and when it makes sense to implement such a solution.
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Building Wireless Sensors
Don Coleman discusses building wireless sensors on a variety of hardware (ESP8266, Particle Photon, Arduino MKR1000), presenting some options for collecting, storing, and visualizing the sensor data.
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Decoupled APIs through Microservices
David Simons introduces microservices as a developer's API tool, discussing why and when makes sense to use them, and the tools that make it easy to deal with a microservices architecture.
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The Joy of Not Coding
Jeroen Janssens discusses several tricks for polyglot programmers helping to mix and match different languages and tools in a project.
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The Marvel Guide for Developers
Melinda Seckington discusses how to become a superhero developer by helping others start with the origin stories, and lessons learned from Marvel superheroes.