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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fighting Developer Fatigue with JNBridge
Developer fatigue is the overwhelming frustration felt by developers who are under pressure to keep current with a flood of new languages, libraries, frameworks, platforms and programming models. JNBridge offers a way to help alleviate developer fatigue by allowing you to mix the libraries you know with code written in the language you are learning.
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What's new in iOS 9: Swift and Objective-C
In this article, we are going to examine new features added to iOS and OS X El Capitan main programming languages: the recently open sourced Swift, which extends pattern matching syntax, adds feature availability and protocol extension, and overhauls error handing; Objective-C, with new interoperability features as generic collections.
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Case for Defaulting to G1 Garbage Collector in Java 9
In this article, GC expert Monica Beckwith makes the case for JEP 248, the proposal to make G1 the default garbage collector in OpenJDK 9.
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Projecting a Modular Future
In this article, the authors discuss modularity and projectional editing concepts used to design programming languages, using a language workbench (LWB) like Jetbrains' MPS. They discuss how they used these techniques in three different domains: embedded-software development, requirements engineering, and insurance rules.
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A Conversation with James Shore on Agile Fluency and Let's Code Javascript
At the recent Agile Australia Conference James Shore gave a keynote talk and a workshop on Agile fluency. He spoke to InfoQ about his work on agile fluency, teaching and building tools for test driven development in javascript.
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A Post-Apocalyptic sun.misc.Unsafe World
The removal of sun.misc.Unsafe and other private APIs in Java 9 has in recent weeks divided the Java community perhaps as never before in its 20 year history. Even though a resolution has now been proposed and a migration path presented, the big question remains: What will a post sun.misc.Unsafe world look like?
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Executable Images - How to Dockerize Your Development Machine
Every developer knows the pain of incompatible software. By using Docker executable images developers can take advantage of container technology to better control their development environments.
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Igniting Kids' Enthusiasm for Coding
CodingStuff.org is an initiative to ignite kids' enthusiasm to learn how to code, to create apps, to design websites, and overall to become comfortable with technology. This article explores what teachers can do to ignite kid's enthusiasm for coding by using interesting and cool lessons to give them some pointers on how to code and then let the magic happen!
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Project Jigsaw is Really Coming in Java 9
Eight years in the making, Project Jigsaw is finally coming to Java 9. With the potential to introduce breaking changes to your code, modularization will certainly change the way we think about our projects and the JDK itself. In this article, Nicolai Parlog tells us what we need to know and what we need to do to prepare