For years, the JVM has been the runtime to beat when it comes to runtime optimization and garbage collector performance. While statically-typed languages built atop the JVM have been able to leverage those capabilities, dynamic languages have often had a more difficult time. But the times they are a’changing.
Learn how a team developed a lightweight JavaScript real-time event-driven platform utilizing WebSockets and proven open source technology such as jQuery to enable a cross platform mission operations center.
As more teams move to agile development and CI to reduce delivery cycles, new requirements have emerged to ensure software quality. Manfred Moser will discuss emerging trends, best practices for ensuring quality in agile, component-based development, and new tools and techniques that development teams can leverage at build time in …
Today, many projects are increasingly focused on web based applications using web browsers as their primary user interface. How durable is this application architecture? Is the browser likely to continue to expand its primacy?
This is a short talk that discusses the various differences between extensions and packages. It provides the developers and audience members with assorted options and choices when it comes to writing distributable code.
AppHarbor deploys new versions of our users applications thousands of times every day. AppHarbor also deploys new versions of itself, usually several times a day. In this talk we will cover how we tell AppHarbor uses to structure their apps and how we have designed AppHarbor itself to be consistently …
