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Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala
Daniel Spiewak shows how to create immutable data that supports structural sharing, such as: Singly-linked List, Banker’s Queue, 2-3 Finger Tree, Red-Black Tree, Patricia Trie, Bitmapped Vector Trie.
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Grails in the Cloud
Peter Ledbrook outlines the differences between several PaaS providers from the perspective of building, deploying and running a Grails application in the cloud, demoing running it on Cloud Foundry.
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Bringing Riak to the Mobile Platform
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses data models for Riak, a protocol for synchronizing key-values, and BucketDB, a mobile Riak client.
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Messaging for Modern Applications
Tom McCuch discusses the current trends in modern applications, how they can use messaging, how Spring Integration provides a messaging DSL, and the architecture of AMQP and RabbitMQ.
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Introduction to Spring Data Neo4j
Michael Hunger discusses graph databases and the need for them in the larger context of NoSQL data stores, introducing Spring Data, Neo4j, and Spring Data Neo4j.
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Let Me Introduce My Moncai!
Dale Ragan presents Moncai, an open source .NET/Mono PaaS currently in beta, detailing its current features and plans for the future, and what is makes it more attractive than similar solutions.
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Understanding Java Garbage Collection and What You Can Do about It
Gil Tene explains the workings of a garbage collector: terminology, metrics, fundamentals, key mechanisms, classification of current GCs, the “Application Memory Wall” problem, and details Azul C4 GC.
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DataMapper on Infinispan: Clustered NoSQL
Lance Ball presents DataMapper, a Ruby ORM library, along with Infinispan, Hibernate Search, Lucene, all running on JBoss AS7 and accessed through TorqueBox, a JRuby application server.
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Convention-over-Configuration in an Agile World
James Kovacs discusses using TDD and BDD to avoid complexity and creating evolving architectures where convention is emphasized over configuration.
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Asynchronous Memcached with a Side of Ketchup and Membase
Jason Sirota explains with code samples how to combine caching with asynchronous IO using memcached, Membase and Ketchup in order to maximize the throughput of an application.
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Distributed STM - A New Programming Model for the Cloud
Cyprien Noel discusses distributed transactional memories along with ObjectFabric, a Java server based on eXtensible Software Transactional Memory, an OS library for concurrent and distributed apps.
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A Tale of Three Trees
Scott Chacon explains the internal mechanisms used by Git to do version control based on three trees –head, index, work–, and some of its commands, especially ‘reset’.
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