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Unleashing the Power of .NET Big Memory and Memory Mapped Files

In continuation of the Big Memory topic on the .NET platform, this article describes the benefits of utilization of large data sets in-process on the managed CLR server environments using Agincore’s Big Memory Pile.

Dmitriy Khmaladze
on Jul 12, 2017
.NET

Virtual Panel: High Performance Application in .NET

The panelists discuss high performance computing in .NET. The topics range from the main challenges they faced, to .NET Native and high performance in unconventional platforms. Memory allocation and thus garbage collection are at the center of the conversation, from both users' and implementers' point of view.

Pierre-Luc Maheu
on Jul 06, 2017
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Apache Beam Interview with Frances Perry

InfoQ Interviews Apache Beam's Frances Perry about the impetus for using Beam and the future of the top-level open source project and covers the thoughts behind the programming model as well as some of the touch-points in integration with other data engineering tools like Apache Spark and Flink.

Dylan Raithel
on Jun 20, 2017
AI, ML & Data Engineering

From Alibaba to Apache: RocketMQ’s Past, Present, and Future

Feng Jia and Wang Xiaorui share the core distributed systems principals behind RocketMQ, Alibaba's distributed messaging and data streaming platform now open sourced through the Apache Foundation.

Feng Jia Wang Xiaorui
on Apr 21, 2017
.NET

Patterns and Practices in C# 7

C# 7 is a major update with a lot of interesting new capabilities. And while there are plenty of articles on what you can do with it, there’s not quite as many on what you should do with it. Using the principles found in the .NET Framework Design Guidelines, we’re going to take a first pass at laying down strategies for getting the most from these new features.

Jonathan Allen
on Apr 13, 2017
.NET

A Comprehensive Look at F# 4.1

Semantic versioning can be misleading. While F# 4.1 is backwards compatible with F# 4.0, it is by no means a minor release. With both Microsoft and the larger community contributing, several more features were introduced since the F# 4.1 preview in the areas of performance, interoperability, and convenience.

Jonathan Allen
on Mar 30, 2017
.NET

Introducing Prefix and Retrace : Interview with Stackify's Founder Matt Watson

Stackify was founded in 2012, making it a relatively new player in the field of Application Performance Management (APM) and code profilers. InfoQ reached out to Matt Watson, founder and CEO of Stackify, to learn more about its products Prefix and Retrace.

Pierre-Luc Maheu
on Feb 22, 2017
AI, ML & Data Engineering

An Introduction to Differential Privacy

Differential privacy leapt from research papers to tech news headlines last year when, in the WWDC keynote, Apple VP of Engineering Craig Federighi announced Apple’s use of the concept to protect user privacy in iOS. This article gives a definition of differential privacy and example of differentially private algorithms.

Charlie Cabot
on Jan 22, 2017
.NET

Virtual Panel: What's Next for .NET?

A lot happened in the last year in the .NET ecosystem. Putting aside the details, the bigger picture is difficult to grasp. There is movement in all aspects: cross-platform, cloud, mobile, web apps and universal apps. Developers wonder where all of this is going to lead and what will be required to get there.

Pierre-Luc Maheu
on Jan 20, 2017
.NET

Interview with Entity Modelling Tool Creator, Frans Bouma

Our first .NET interview of the year is with Frans Bouma of the entity modeling tool LLBLGen Pro. This tool has been around for almost as long as .NET itself, but being a commercial product it isn’t as well-known as the free alternatives.

Jonathan Allen
on Jan 06, 2017
.NET

Creating an HTML UI for Desktop .NET Applications

Developers are looking for ways to employ the richness of the Web UI in desktop applications. The common approach is to embed a browser component to render the HTML UI within the desktop app.

Anna Dolbina
on Dec 30, 2016
Mobile

Swift and Objective-C Runtime Programming

Since a few months ago, a debate has been going on within the Objective-C/Swift developer community concerning the lack of dynamic features in Swift and the importance that runtime programming plays in Objective-C and Cocoa. InfoQ has spoken with Swift developers Chris Eidhof and Drew Crawford to learn more about these potential issues.

Sergio De Simone
on Dec 16, 2016