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Practicing at the Cutting Edge: Learning and Unlearning about Performance
Martin Thompson discusses the major steps in the evolution of Java and how it contrasts to alternative technologies, and the challenges of pushing the limits of performance.
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Parallel-lazy Performance: Java 8 vs Scala vs GS Collections
Sponsored by Goldman Sachs. Java 8 has Streams, Scala has parallel collections, and GS Collections has ParallelIterables. How well do they perform?
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Project Avatar
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Oracle, David Delabassee discusses creating hybrid apps with Avatar, a platform for server-side development in JavaScript for the JVM.
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Clojure in the Large
Stuart Sierra discusses various Clojure features: protocols, records, DI, managing startup/shutdown of components, dynamic binding, interactive development workflow, testing and mocking.
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Lambda: A Peek Under the Hood
Brian Goetz explains how lambda expressions are implemented using the invokedynamic instruction introduced in Java SE 7.
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Living in the Matrix with Bytecode Manipulation
Sponsored by New Relic. Ashley Puls introduces three common byte code manipulation frameworks: ASM, CGLib, and Javassist, providing enough detail to get one started.
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Garbage Collection is Good!
Eva Andreasson has a fairly entertaining and yet painful presentation around garbage collection that will probably will end with more questions than answers.
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Scala: The Good Parts
Jack Singleton discusses how to improve code readability and maintainability in Scala, and how to be productive with Options, Immutability, and the Collections library.
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Practicing at the Cutting Edge
Martin Thompson focuses on the evolution of Java in contrast with C/C++, covering the cultural challenges of performance limits and how to collaborate with industry experts and organize teams.
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Is It A Car? Is It A Computer? No, It's a Raspberry Pi Java Carputer
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Oracle, Simon Ritter looks at how Embedded Java and a Raspberry Pi were used for Audi S3, and how JavaFX has been used for an in-car information system.
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Building a Trading Platform in 6 Weeks in an Organization That Would Really Rather We Didn't
Lance Walton shares the experience of a small team building a trading platform in 6 weeks in Scala and Lift while fighting against an opposing organizational culture.
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Coding in Style: How to Wield Scala in the Trenches
Josh Suereth discusses Scala: expressions, abstracting behaviors, FP & OOP, Futures & Promises, libraries with implicit classes and value classes, tracking lexical state with implicit values.
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