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Microservice Challenges

Fred George discusses two challenges developing microservices: the asynchronous messaging bus and using functional programming which may be at odds with this approach.

Fred George
on May 28, 2015

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Exploring Melody Space with Clojure, Overtone, core.async and core.logic

Thomas Kristensen describes the overall architecture of Composer, a system for composing musing, showing how to build a system that achieves responsiveness while still being flexible.

Thomas Kristensen
on Mar 24, 2015

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Building Reactive Services using Functional Programming

Rachel Reese sees reactive services and functional languages as a natural pair, demonstrating how functional concepts such as mailboxes and async workflows can help one craft reactive services.

Rachel Reese
on Feb 15, 2015

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Concurrency at Large-Scale: The Evolution to Reactive Microservices

Randy Shoup, Consulting CTO, shares the history of reactive services and visits key milestones in their evolution: async techniques at Google, real-time search at Ebay, & responsive games at Kixeye.

Randy Shoup
on Feb 08, 2015

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Reactive Streams: Handling Data-Flows the Reactive Way

Roland Kuhn introduces the guiding principles behind Reactive Streams’ design and along with examples using its actor-based implementation in Akka.

Roland Kuhn
on Aug 28, 2014

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01:00:23
Clojure Core.Async

Timothy Baldridge introduces Clojure’s Core.Async library, presenting the motivation behind the library and examples in Clojure and ClojureScript helpful to decouple subsystems in an application.

Timothy Baldridge
on Aug 01, 2014

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Building Real-time Web Applications with Stratified JavaScript

Alexander Fritze shows how to build real-time web app with Conductance, a web app server built on Stratified JavaScript which includes support for modularity and composability of asynchronous code.

Alexander Fritze
on Jul 24, 2014

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Coding in Style: How to Wield Scala in the Trenches

Josh Suereth discusses Scala: expressions, abstracting behaviors, FP & OOP, Futures & Promises, libraries with implicit classes and value classes, tracking lexical state with implicit values.

Josh Suereth
on Jun 22, 2014

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A Practical Implementation of Async

Mitchel Sellers uses multiple real-world applications to show practical implementations of Async within actual applications, covering various scenarios and implementations of the Async pattern.

Mitchel Sellers
on May 31, 2014

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End-to-End Reactive Programming at Netflix

Jafar Husain, Matthew Podwysocki teach developers to think about events as collections, demonstrating some basic collection operations to express complex asynchronous programs as simple expressions.

Matthew Podwysocki Jafar Husain
on Mar 03, 2014

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The Next 700 Asynchronous Programming Models

Philipp Haller explains how to make Rx programming more natural and intuitive by generalizing Scala's Async which, so far, has been used to program with non-blocking futures in a familiar direct style

Philipp Haller
on Mar 02, 2014

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Dart for the Language Enthusiast

Bob Nystrom attempts to demonstrate that Dart is not boring, covering laziness, higher-order functions, asynchronicity, abstractions and others.

Bob Nystrom
on Feb 12, 2014

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