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Easily Create Java Agents with Byte Buddy

In this article Rafael Winterhalter, creator of the bytecode manipulation tool Byte Buddy, provides detailed guidance on how to easily create Java agents using Byte Buddy.

Rafael Winterhalter
on Dec 08, 2015
Development

Effective Ruby LiveLessons - An Interview with Sam Phippen

Effective Ruby LiveLessons by Sam Phippen is a series of video lectures explaining best practices used by expert Rubyists targeting all levels of Ruby programmers. The video lessons contain hands-on demonstrations to help the viewer understand how each item is put into action. InfoQ spoke with the author about the lessons learned from the video and Ruby on Rails best practices.

Alex Giamas
on Dec 02, 2015
Java

Java: The Missing Features

In this article, we look at some of the "missing features" of Java, as well as the work, if any to remediate those.

Ben Evans
on Nov 24, 2015
Java

Next Generation Session Management with Spring Session

Spring Session makes it easy to write horizontally scalable cloud applications, offload session state into specialized external session stores, and take advantage of current technologies such as WebSockets. This article takes a deep dive into using Spring Session to maximize these benefits, avoiding the limitations of traditional session management employed by enterprise Java

Adib Saikali
on Nov 10, 2015
Java

From Imperative to Functional and Back-Monads are for Functional Languages

Grafting Functional Programming's approach of monadic composition onto imperative languages yields the worst of both worlds. And the only reason for importing the PFP abstraction is due to a flaw in that most basic concurrency abstract, the thread; a flaw that can be easily rectified by the introduction of fibers.

Ron Pressler
on Oct 27, 2015
Web Development

Bridging Microsoft Word and the Browser

HTML editors work fine for general formatting, but they don’t have all the capabilities that some businesses require. Creating graphics, diagrams, tracking changes and inserting comments are useful and come out of the box in Microsoft Word In this article, Prasadu Babu Dandu shows how to serve up Word documents as HTML.

Prasadu Babu Dandu
on Oct 26, 2015
Web Development

Stylish and Sane: A Guide to Better CSS

All websites need CSS and most is awful. There's too much of it. There's a bunch of duplication. It's like a delicately spun spider web, tightly coupled and fragile. It has more patches than a bicycle wheel. It doesn't need to be this way. Rouan Wilsenach introduces the concept of component-based styling and how to curate a style guide for your site.

Rouan Wilsenach
on Oct 21, 2015
.NET

Big Memory .NET Part 2 - Pile, Our Big Memory Solution for .NET

In part one, Leonid Ganeline introduced the concept of big memory and discussed why it is so hard to deal with in a .NET environment. In part two, Dmitriy Khmaladze describes their solution NFX Pile; a hybrid memory manager written in C# with 100% managed code.

Leonid Ganeline Dmitriy Khmaladze
on Oct 13, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A and Book Review of Software Development Metrics

The book Software Development Metrics by Dave Nicolette explores how to use metrics to track and guide software development. It explains how different development approaches and process models, like traditional waterfall-based or iterative agile software development, affect the choice and usage of metrics. It describes metrics that can be used for steering work and for managing improvement.

Ben Linders
on Oct 12, 2015
.NET

Big Memory .NET Part 1 – The Challenges in Handling 1 Billion Resident Business Objects

This article describes the concept of Big Memory and concentrates on its applicability to managed execution models like the one used in Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime (CLR). A few different approaches are suggested to resolve GC pausing issues that arise when a managed process starts to store over a few million objects.

Leonid Ganeline Dmitriy Khmaladze
on Oct 08, 2015
Architecture & Design

Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model Book Review and Q&A with Vaughn Vernon

Vaughn Vernon in his new book Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model shows how this model can simplify enterprise software development. After an introduction to the basics of the actor model and tutorials on Scala and Akka the rest of the book is a patterns catalogue describing most of the patterns in the book Enterprise Integration Patterns from an actor model perspective.

Jan Stenberg
on Oct 06, 2015
Development

Author Q&A with Brett Slatkin on Effective Python

InfoQ speaks with Brett Slatkin, senior staff software engineer at Google and author of Effective Python.

Jeff Martin
on Oct 05, 2015

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