How you actually build your software will affect your delivery effectiveness. Ensuring that your software is built with Continuous Delivery in mind will smooth downstream processes like Automated Acceptance Tests, Adhoc Environment creation, and Production releases (because Production is just another environment).
Gang of Four (GOF) design patterns were quite centered on OOP languages. Now that we have dynamic and functional languages on the JVM, there are quite a few other patterns that come in handy with these capabilities. This presentation explores patterns that enable us to make better use of closures …
Learn how to deploy and manage real-time applications on Cloud Foundry using common Node.js examples and Redis key-value store capabilities. Common applications being built on Node.js like social networking and chat require real-time scaling capabilities across multiple instances. Developers need to deal with sticky sessions, scale-up, scale-down, instance crash/restart, and …
The Java platform has supported concurrent programming since its early days. However, the standard means of multithreading and synchronization have been difficult to master. This talk explores how with the help of GPars, Groovy’s library for concurrent programming, concepts like fork/join, map/reduce, actors, and dataflow can make our concurrent tasks …
iOS has fundamentally changed the way we use mobile devices and has spurred a revolution, and the iPhone was the first successful phone in years to ship without Java support. Thanks to new open source projects, it is now possible to build native iOS applications by using the Java programming …
Elixir is a programming language for the Erlang VM. Elixir provides a first class macro mechanism, supports polymorphism via protocols (similar to Clojure’s) and many other features while keeping the functional aspects of Erlang used to build distributed, fault-tolerant applications.
