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Geb in the Browser
Ken Kousen talks about Geb, which makes it easy to automate browser-based applications. Geb is based on the Spock testing framework, providing a straightforward syntax and easy execution model.
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Full Stack Groovy Developer
Iván López presents the technological stack of Polaromatic, and demonstrates that it's possible to write the whole stack with Groovy: Backend, Javascript, HTML, Android, test, build tool.
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Working with Databases & Groovy
Paul King reviews the features in Groovy which make it easy to work with databases - Groovy SQL, datasets -, and working with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Neo4J.
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Getting Started with Chrome Extensions: Tips and Tricks
Andrew Dunkman explains the basics of Chrome extension development, how to avoid an extension being automatically disabled when performing upgrades, and some unexpected Chrome hooks.
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Introduction to Reactive Programming
Stephane Maldini and Rossen Stoyanchev discuss Reactive Streams and Reactive Extensions, and demo introducing the basic concepts in composition libraries using RxJava and Reactor.
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Seriously, Use Groovy Now
Ken Kousen demonstrates how one can add Groovy to Java applications and simplify his development job immediately.
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Gpars: Concurrency in Java & Groovy
Ken Kousen reviews the basic concepts of the Groovy Parallel Streams framework and demonstrates communicating sequential processes, promises, dataflow concurrency and concurrent collection processing.
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Groovy: The Awesome Parts
Paul King presents examples of Groovy and its application: DSL, dynamic typing, extensible static type system, Android programming, concurrency, functional, frameworks and tools.
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Aeron: The Next Generation in High-performance Messaging
Aeron is a high-performance messaging system written in Java built with mechanical sympathy in mind, and can run over UDP, Infiniband or Shared Memory, using lock-free and wait-free structures.
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API Management – A Governmental Perspective
Simon Ferguson describes how MBIE is using APIs, initiatives that are underway to increase use of APIs, and the considerations that are involved with providing governmental services as APIs.
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Full Stack Web Performance
Nik Molnar discusses how to use client and server side profiling tools to improve the performance of a web application, providing solutions to the most common performance problems.
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Convention over Configuration: the Gradle way
Cédric Champeau demonstrates how Gradle inherits from good practices like what Maven offered, but goes beyond by generalizing the concept and allowing to define conventions.