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gRPC: A High Performance, Modern RPC System
David Howden introduces gRPC and outlines its main strengths/weaknesses, and then recounts his experience of migrating from JSON/HTTP-based REST to gRPC, including benefits and issues encountered.
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A Practical Road to SaaS in Python
Armin Ronacher discusses his experiences building SaaS businesses on a Python technology stack from a security and scalability point of view, and what other technologies work well with Python.
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Why We Chose Erlang over Java, Scala, Go, C
Colin Hemmings discusses when and why one should choose Erlang over other options, but also when not to choose it.
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GraphQL for Fun & Profit
Tom Adams introduces GraphQL, explaining why it is useful when dealing with an API.
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Full-Scale Elm in Production
Richard Feldman introduces Elm, how it works, what differentiates it from the other front-end technologies, and gives practical advice for introducing it to an existing JavaScript codebase.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Serverless JavaScript
Steve Faulkner discusses Bustle's entire serverless stack. He talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly, sharing real numbers from production systems.
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In-Memory Caching: Curb Tail Latency with Pelikan
Yao Yue introduces Pelikan - a framework to implement distributed caches such as Memcached and Redis. She discusses the system aspects that are important to the performance of such services.
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High Performance Managed Languages
Martin Thompson explores how their managed runtimes can equal, and even better in some cases, the performance of native languages.
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Performance Testing in Java
Ix-chel Ruiz and Andres Almiray talk about the tools, like JMeter and JMH, and some techniques that should make engaging in performance testing a rewarding experience.
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Building Hypermedia Clients
Todd Brackley demonstrates provisioning a network of data through a JavaScript client to show that there is no magic and talks through some of the major design issues.
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Straggler Free Data Processing in Cloud Dataflow
Eugene Kirpichov describes the theory and practice behind Cloud Dataflow's approach to straggler elimination, and the associated non-obvious challenges, benefits, and implications of the technique.
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Goodbye PrintGCDetails... and Other JDK 9 Changes!
Tony Printezis talks about the major changes and improvements coming in JDK 9 that will affect (but also help) anyone who's interested in Java performance monitoring, profiling, and tuning.
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