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DevOps Patterns to Scale Web Applications using Cloud Services
Daniel Cukier shares insight in using cloud services to scale web applications, dealing with load balancing, session sharing, email, asynchronous processing, logging, monitoring, CD, RUM, etc.
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TypeScript: a Type System for Toolability
Luke Hoban introduces TypeScript and its implications for writing web applications and creating supporting tooling.
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R for Big Data
Indrajit Roy presents HP Labs’ attempts at scaling R to efficiently perform distributed machine learning and graph processing on industrial-scale data sets.
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Go at Google
Rob Pike explains how Google designed Go to address major development issues they encounter while using other languages: long build times, poor dependency management, lack of robustness, etc.
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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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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.
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Dependent Types for JavaScript
Ravi Chugh introduces Dependent JavaScript (DJS), a statically-typed system for the imperative, object-oriented, dynamic language.
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The HipHop Compiler for PHP
Guilherme Ottoni presents the design, implementation, and an evaluation of the HipHop compiler for PHP.
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MySQL to NoSQL: Data Modeling Challenges in Supporting Scalability
Kenneth M. Anderson shares some of the data modeling issues encountered while transitioning from a relational database to NoSQL.
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Reflections on Reflection
Jim Coplien believes that we have done OOP the wrong way for 40 years, and suggests an approach to reflection based on the DCI paradigm and influenced by the human society.
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Socio-PLT: Principles for Programming Language Adoption
Leo A. Meyerovich explains how social adoption patterns can help language designers make new languages that are inherently attractive and desirable by developers.
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Cognitive Architectures: A Way Forward for the Psychology of Programming
Michael Hansen presents the ACT-R cognitive architecture, a simulation framework for psychological models, showing how it could be used to measure the impact of various programming paradigms.