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Categories for the Working Programmer
Jeremy Gibbons explains categories, focusing on them as an organizing principle helpful in managing generic libraries.
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SQL Strikes Back! Recent Trends in Data Persistence and Analysis
Dean Wampler takes a look at SQL’s resurgence and specific example technologies, including: NewSQL, Hybrid SQL, SQL abstractions on top of file-based data, SQL as a functional programming language.
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Consistency without Consensus: CRDTs in Production at SoundCloud
Peter Bourgon provides a practical introduction to Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) and describes a production CRDT system built at SoundCloud to serve several product features.
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Following Google: Don’t Follow the Followers, Follow the Leaders
Mark Madsen explains the history of databases and data processing over the past decades and looks where the industry will go.
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The Evolution of Testing Methodology at AWS: From Status Quo to Formal Methods with TLA+
Tim Rath explains how and why Amazon incorporated more powerful testing methodologies, ultimately leading them to the use of formal methods where TLA+ has become a cornerstone to our overall strategy.
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Introducing RaveJS: Spring Boot Concepts for JavaScript Applications
John Hann presents the benefits of using RaveJS. Rave eliminates configuration, machinery, and complexity.
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Resource Handling in Spring MVC 4.1
Brian Clozel, Rossen Stoyanchev discuss Spring MVC performance techniques aimed at keeping users happy.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Centralized
Chris Beams shares his findings from over two years of research into bitcoin and related technologies.
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The Old New Old New Things
Greg Young advises understanding the pros and cons of a system’s concepts and environments in order to avoid oscillating between options or choosing the wrong ones.
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Caching with Spring: Advanced Topics and Best Practices
Michael Plöd addresses the advanced usage of Spring's caching abstraction such as integrating a cache provider that is not integrated by the default Spring Package and overviews JCache. Demos.
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Comparing Elasticity of Reactive Frameworks
Elasticity is a key component in reactive systems and James Ward navigates the different characteristics of different implementations of this concept: Akka, Scala, RxJava, and more.
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The Quest for the One True Parser
Terence Parr shows the key practical advances in parsing from the last 25 years, provides algorithm comparisons, and separates the promises from reality.