Presentations

• Posted by Jonathan Worthington  on  May 15, 2014
  Using Invoke Dynamic to Teach the JVM a New Language

  Jonathan Worthington explains how invokedynamic works, how he has been using it while porting the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler to the JVM, and its performance impact.

  Jonathan Worthington

  on  May 15, 2014

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• Posted by Trisha Gee  on  May 10, 2014
  HTML5/Angular.js/ Groovy/Java/ MongoDB, All Together - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

  Trisha Gee demoes building a web application using Java, HTML5, Angular.js, Mongo.DB, Groovy and microservices in one hour.

  Trisha Gee

  on  May 10, 2014

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• Posted by Age Mooij  on  May 10, 2014
  Between Zero & Hero - Tips & Tricks for the Intermediate-Level Scala Developer

  Age Mooij shares some tips&tricks for the Scala developer: type aliases, type and class tag, auto-lifted partial functions, nostacktrace, type classes, context bounds, low priority default implicits.

  Age Mooij

  on  May 10, 2014

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• Posted by Deepak Giridharagopal  on  May 09, 2014
  PuppetDB: A Story of Immutable Infrastructure

  Deepak Giridharagopal discusses "immutable infrastructure", PuppetDB and complex invariants, PuppetDB’s architecture, the experience of bringing Clojure to a Ruby shop and lessons learned from that.

  Deepak Giridharagopal

  on  May 09, 2014

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• Posted by Jamie Allen  on  May 08, 2014
  Effective Actors

  Jamie Allen reviews some of the actor patterns as implemented in Akka and Scala.

  Jamie Allen

  on  May 08, 2014

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• Posted by Simon Willnauer  on  May 03, 2014
  With a Hammer in Your Hand… Elasticsearch

  Simon Willnauer introduces and demoes some of the main features of Elasticsearch.

  Simon Willnauer

  on  May 03, 2014

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• Posted by Jamie Allen  on  May 01, 2014
  Real World Akka Recipes

  Jamie Allen describes three patterns using Akka actors: handling a lack of guaranteed delivery, distributing tasks to worker actors and implementing distributed workers in an Akka cluster.

  Jamie Allen

  on  May 01, 2014

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• Posted by Jon Neale  on  Apr 18, 2014
  Exploring a Legacy Clojure Codebase

  Jon Neale, Ragnar Dahlen discuss the challenges dealing with large Clojure legacy code at uSwitch.

  Jon Neale Ragnar Dahlen

  on  Apr 18, 2014

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• Posted by Renzo Borgatti  on  Apr 14, 2014
  Dissecting Clojure Reducers

  Renzo Borgatti discusses implementing parallel solutions with reducers in Clojure, doing live coding that show what functional abstractions are involved and why.

  Renzo Borgatti

  on  Apr 14, 2014

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• Posted by Simon Ritter  on  Apr 06, 2014
  Lambdas & Streams

  Simon Ritter discusses the syntax and use of Lambda expressions, focusing on using Streams to greatly simplify the way bulk and aggregate operations are handled in Java.

  Simon Ritter

  on  Apr 06, 2014

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• Posted by Bob Lee  on  Apr 01, 2014
  Java Puzzlers: Something Old, Something Gnu, Something Bogus, Something Blew

  Josh Bloch, Bob Lee point out to the dangers that lurk in Java’s dark corners, so they can be avoided or eliminated from programs and designs.

  Bob Lee Josh Bloch

  on  Apr 01, 2014

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• Posted by Stuart Williams  on  Mar 19, 2014
  Apache Tomcat 8 Preview

  Daniel Mikusa and Stuart Williams overview of the changes and new features introduced by both the updated Servlet, JSP, EL, WebSocket specifications and the Tomcat specific changes.

  Stuart Williams Daniel Mikusa

  on  Mar 19, 2014

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