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Integrating Lucene with HBase
The article describes overall design and implementation of integrating Lucene search library with HBase back end. It describes integration architecture, implementation and HBase tables design
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2011
This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Advancing Agile to the Next stage with Lean, Agile in the Midlife, Architecture Case Studies, Beautiful Code, Big Data and NoSQL, Functional Web, Cross Platform Mobile Development, HTML5 & JavaScript, Systems That Never Stop and many more!
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A Java Developer’s Guide to PaaS
This article reviews and compares 6 leading vendors of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions for Java developers, together with 3 up and coming vendors mentioned at the end of the article. After reading it, you will learn different technical and business approaches of Java PaaS, and then decide for yourself which vendor provides the best platform for your needs.
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David Pollak and Dick Wall Discuss Barriers to Scala Adoption
David Pollak, famous Scala advocate, blog posted, "Yes, Virginia, Scala is hard", causing a brouhaha. Scala use is increasing, yet the post claims that Scala tries to do too much, has poor IDE support, and more. InfoQ catches up with David Pollak and Dick Wall to comment on the complaints in the post, as well as the future of Scala. David has things to say about Groovy, Ceylon and Lambdas too.
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Effective Java Profiling With Open Source Tools
In this example-driven article, Joachim Haagen Skeie walks you step by step through using open source tools like JMap, VisualVM, BTrace, and EurekaJ to get under the hood of your running Java apps to effectively diagnose performance and memory problems.
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Discover Recording JVM Debuggers
A debugger is a great tool for examining the internal state of an application, reproducing however a specific issue is a completely different matter. Fully replicating the production environment into a staging area might even be a feat on its own. Meet recording debuggers that remove all the guesswork and extra effort by monitoring the application in production and knowing exactly what happened.
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A Discussion With Neal Gafter on the Future of Java
Microsoft's Neal Gafter, who was primary designer and implementer of the Java SE 4 and 5 language enhancements and now works for Microsoft on .NET platform languages, discusses the impact of Oracle's acquisition of Sun on Java,makes the case for adding segmented stacks and a meta-object protocol to Java,, and offers some insights into how Java and C#/.NET compare.
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SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer Discusses the Impact of the Cloud on Enterprise IT
This article is a transcript of an interview with SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer, recorded at the inaugural What's Next Conference in Paris in May. Colyer discusses the impact of mobile devices, HTML 5 and cloud-computing on enterprise IT generally, and SpringSource's Cloud Foundary product.
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Scala.Net and Scala with Martin Odersky
Scala.Net will be a version of Scala that supports the .NET ecosystem. We talked with Martin Odersky, Chairman and Chief Architect as well as co-founder of Typesafe, about Scala.Net, the version of Scala that support .Net as well as about Scala in general.
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An Introduction to Scala for Java Developers
Scala combines the object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, using a concise syntax that is fully compatible with Java and runs on the JVM. This article provides an introduction to Scala.
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Extending Oozie
In this article authors show how leverage Oozie extensibility to implement custom language extensions. This approach can be viewed a specializing workflow language for a given company/line of business.
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QoS for Applications: A Resource Management Framework for Runtimes
This article draws an analogy between QoS for networks and for applications, resulting in a mapping guide between the two and introducing a production solution for Java, (J)Ruby, and (J)Python apps.