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PHP on the Metal with HHVM
Keith Adams shares details on building HHVM, a PHP VM built by Facebook, along with lessons learned doing it and tuning it for high performance.
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Ozma: Extending Scala with Oz Concurrency
Sébastien Doeraene introduces Ozma – Scala extension providing declarative concurrency – with code samples, and explores what it takes to port it to JVM.
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Cloud Foundry Bootcamp
Josh Long and Eric Bottard cover the basics of Cloud Foundry PaaS, how to use it, how to install and use Micro Cloud Foundry, including hands on installation troubleshooting.
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Formal Specification of a JavaScript Module System
In this paper, we propose a formal specification of a JavaScript module system. A module system for JavaScript will allow safe and incremental development of JavaScript web applications.
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Functional Design Patterns
Stuart Sierra discusses several design patterns implemented in functional languages, in particular Clojure: State/Event, Consequences, Accumulator, MapReduce, Reduce/Combine, Recursive Expansion, etc.
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(un)Common Sense
Mike Solomon shares some of the experiences and lessons learned scaling YouTube over the years.
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Performance Testing Java Applications
Martin Thompson explores performance testing, how to avoid the common pitfalls, how to profile when the results cause your team to pull a funny face, and what you can do about that funny face.
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High Performance Messaging for Web-Based Trading Systems
Frank Greco investigates WebSocket and how trading systems can be designed to leverage it for reliability, security and performance for desktop, mobile, datacenter and cloud environments.
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River Trail – Parallel Programming in JavaScript
Stephan Herhut introduces Intel's Parallel JavaScript (formerly known as "River Trail"), a new parallel programming API designed for JavaScript.
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Project Lambda in Java SE 8
Daniel Smith details some of the new features prepared for Java 8 by Project Lambda: lambda expressions, default methods, and parallel collections.
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Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Applications
Emad Benjamin explains how to deploy and tune a JVM on a virtual infrastructure (vSphere), and how to tune the garbage collector in this environment.
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Eval Begone!: Semi-Automated Removal of Eval from JavaScript Programs
Gregor Richards introduces Evalorizer, a heuristics based tool which is meant to replace JavaScript eval constructs with safer JavaScript correspondents.