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What We Talk about When We Talk about Distributed Systems
Alvaro Videla reviews distributed systems: async/sync, message passing, shared memory, failure detectors, leader election, consensus and different kinds of replication, and recommends related books.
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Using Pony for Fintech
Sylvan Clebsch talks about using Pony for fintech to build high-performance tools. Pony is a new actor-model statically typed language, compiled AOT, with a GC and a data-race free type system.
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Driving Customer Engagement & Acquisition in the Digital Era
Rana Pereis explores case studies of how banks are using APIs to evolve new digital offerings and business models that help drive customer engagement and acquisition.
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Eclipse Orion: Fast, Functional and at Your Fingertips
Steve Northover presents tips, tricks and new features that make JavaScript development more productive and fun with Eclipse Orion, including quick fixes, content assist and refactoring support.
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How Will Persistent Memory Change Software Design?
Maciej Maciejewski discusses persistent memory, storage devices, and DRAM, accessing persistent memory with ACPI 6.0 extensions, existing support in the Linux kernel and the NVM library.
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Being Meta
Jevgenij Nekrasov discusses doing meta-programming in .NET, including writing a custom DSL.
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10 Things You Need to Know about BDD, SpecFlow and Cucumber
Seb Rose discusses BDD, what it is good for and what tools can help, common BDD anti-patterns and myths, as well as advice for starting with it.
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Java 9's Other Puzzle Pieces
Erik Costlow discusses which Java 9 improvements are automatic, which require an update, and how to take advantage of new multi-release JAR files and maintain backwards compatibility during upgrade.
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Scientific Simulation with Eclipse - from Zero Code to Running on Lots of Cores in 10 Minutes
Alex McCaskey describes recent plugins implemented for the Eclipse ICE to streamline and improve the MOOSE development workflow, from application development to execution on a remote HPC resource.
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A Review of Eclipse 4, Its APIs and Architecture
Tom Schindl reviews Eclipse 4’s API and architecture, pinpointing successes, failures and mistakes.
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From Zero to Hyper in 30 Minutes: Live Coding a Hypermedia Client
Mike Amundsen demos creating a HTTP request in JavaScript using Request, Response, Render, and Repeat, then handling the responses, and parsing the returned document for data, links, and forms.
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Project Jigsaw in JDK 9: Modularity Comes to Java
Simon Ritter explains the impact Jigsaw will have on developers in terms of building their applications, as well as helping them to understand how things like encapsulation will change in JDK 9.