Languages that run on the JVM are represented by their gurus in this session. These advocates show off the shiny new language features and battle for bragging rights for the most popular language. Returning from 2011 are language gurus representing Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, and Scala.
From JRuby to Clojure, Jython to Groovy, there are many different scripting languages that can now be embedded and integrated into a JVM. And there are almost as many different ways of doing it! This presentation compares and contrasts some of the different ways of embedding scripting languages in Java, …
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is hard. Learn how Square is approaching this problem today with JRuby and where we hope to be in the future. We’ll go from git init to cap deploy, covering Square’s approach to testing and service isolation, dependency management, API documentation, code quality metrics, data seeding, …
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.
Which web application development framework to use?. Simplicity, productivity, ability to deliver high quality of service (QoS), especially performance and scalability (can’t ignore that when you’re talking about 200,000+ users and expect high concurrency!) were our top criteria for framework selection. After considerable research on state-of-the-art, we zeroed in on …
With half a million Ruby developers worldwide, there’s no denying the success and speed of development this language provides. This video presents how to tap into Ruby to complement an existing investment in Java.
