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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Great Mobile Debate: Native vs Hybrid App Development
Nick Landry makes a tour of the multiple choices in mobile development: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, HTML5, native, hybrid, web, languages, tools, helping listeners decide what they need.
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With a Hammer in Your Hand… Elasticsearch
Simon Willnauer introduces and demoes some of the main features of Elasticsearch.
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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.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs
Robert Smallshire explores the disconnect between the dire outcomes predicted by advocates of static typing versus the near absence of type errors in real world systems built with dynamic languages.
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MythBashers: An Adventure in Overlooked Technologies
Avdi Grimm takes Bash to its limits and beyond.
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Exploring a Legacy Clojure Codebase
Jon Neale, Ragnar Dahlen discuss the challenges dealing with large Clojure legacy code at uSwitch.
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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.