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Java InfoQ Trends Report - July 2019

The InfoQ Java trend report provides an overview of technology adoption and commentary on how we see the Java and JVM-related space evolving in 2019. Key developments include the release of Java 13, the rise of non-HotSpot JVMs and the evolution of GraalVM, and the changing landscape of Java microservice frameworks.

Ben Evans Erik Costlow Dustin Schultz Charles Humble
on Jul 16, 2019
Mobile

Kotlin Multiplatform for iOS Developers

Leveraging the similarities between Swift and Kotlin, Kotlin Multiplatform makes it easy to create cross-platform components that you can reuse across iOS and Android projects. This article will lead you through all the steps required to set up Android Studio to build a framework you can import into Xcode.

Ben Whitley
on Apr 16, 2019
Development

Rewriting an API Gateway Service from Clojure to Golang: AppsFlyer Experience Report

AppsFlyer processes nearly 70+ billion HTTP requests a day, and is built using a microservices architecture style. The entry point to the system that wraps all of the frontend services is a mission-critical (non-micro) service called the API Gateway. This article is an experience reporting of migrating from a Clojure-based gateway to a newly designed Go-based implementation.

Asaf Yonay
on Jan 31, 2019
Java

An Introduction to Kotlin for Serverside Java Developers

Kotlin is one of the newer languages on the JVM from JetBrains, the makers of IntelliJ. It is a statically typed language which aims to provide a blend of OO and FP programming styles. Kotlin compiler creates bytecode compatible with the JVM, allowing it to run on the JVM and interoperate with existing libraries. We present the main features that might appeal to Java developers.

Baljeet Sandhu
on Oct 14, 2018
Java

Micronaut Tutorial: How to Build Microservices with This JVM-Based Framework

Micronaut is a modern, JVM-based, full-stack framework for building modular and easily testable microservice applications. In this tutorial you will create three microservices written in Java, Kotlin and Groovy that use the framework.

Sergio del Amo Caballero
on Oct 05, 2018
Web Development

More Than React, Part 2: How Binding.scala Makes Reusability Easy

In Part 2 of "More Than React", Yang Bo goes into what's required to reuse components in vanilla JavaScript, ReactJS, and Binding.scala. Through examples, Yang shows how Binding.scala makes creating and reusing components easy with minimal code, reducing complexity and boilerplate.

Yang Bo
on Apr 08, 2017
Java

The Future of Java in the Enterprise - InfoQ’s Opinion

As part of ongoing work to review InfoQ’s editorial focus for the next year, we’ve been looking at the Java landscape in some detail. This article summarises our view of Java's role in the enterprise

Charles Humble
on Feb 20, 2017
Web Development

More Than React: Why You Shouldn’t Use ReactJS for Complex Interactive Front-End Projects, Part I

Does React function as well in complex interactive front-end projects as it does in simple interactive websites? In this article, Yang Bo introduces several problems encountered when using React in large projects and why he decided to develop a new framework to compete.

Yang Bo
on Jan 30, 2017
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Article Series: Getting a Handle on Data Science as a Software Developer

Software developers and managers are realizing that they need data science among their skills, to be able to tackle pressing problems. In this series, field experts provide guidance to help us navigate among the available data analysis options. They explore ways of understanding where data science is needed and where it’s not, and how to turn it into an asset.

Francine Bennett
on Dec 05, 2016
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Data Science up and down the Ladder of Abstraction

Although Clojure lacks the extensive toolbox and analytic community of the most popular data science languages, R and Python, it provides a powerful environment for developing statistical thinking and for practicing effective data science.

Henry Garner
on Dec 02, 2016
Development

Clojure in Action, Second Edition, Review and Authors Q&A

Clojure in Action, written by Amit Rahore and Francis Avila, is an essential, thorough, and well organized introduction to Clojure 1.6 that explores the core parts of the language while introducing the reader to Clojure's pragmatic and idiomatic nature. InfoQ has spoken with Francis Avila to learn more about his book, Clojure's advantages, and its future.

Sergio De Simone
on Feb 17, 2016
Development

Clojure Recipes Review and Q&A

Addison Wesley’s Clojure Recipes is a new book that aims to help developers to get deeper into Clojure, moving from a generic understanding of the language features and syntax to setting up more complex projects that integrate external libraries. The book contains a collection of "weekend" projects targeting web client and server apps, implementing DSLs, using Datomic, Cascalog, Hadoop, etc.

Sergio De Simone
on Jan 25, 2016