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Gershwin: Stack-based, Concatenative Clojure
Daniel Gregoire introduces Gershwin, a stack-based, concatenative programming language with a Clojure runtime that targets the JVM.
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Building APIs with Grails
Bobby Warner discusses the pros and cons of the available options that Grails developers have for creating RESTful APIs.
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Advanced Web Development Techniques With Grails 2
Jeff Scott Brown presents some of the advanced features available in Grails 2 for web application development.
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An Introduction To Web Development With Grails 2
Jeff Scott Brown demoes creating a web application with Grails 2 using the command-line, GORM and Hibernate, GSP, and Spring Integration.
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Scaling out with Akka Actors
Joshua Suereth designs a scalable distributed search service with Akka and Scala using actors, and covering practical aspects of how to scale out with Akka’s clustering API.
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Lift-off with Groovy 2.1
Guillaume Laforge introduces some of the new features in Groovy 2.1: better Invoke Dynamic, DSL-related annotation, grouping annotations, compiler customization.
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Using Forked/Unreleased Grails Plug-ins
Jeff Beck discusses 3 ways of dealing with a large number of Grails plug-ins: checked-in plugin directory, inline plugins, and custom repository
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Orchestrating Tasks from the Cloud with Groovy and AWS SWF
Clay McCoy discusses using Groovy’s metaprogramming capabilities and AWS SWF to deal with unreliable remote services, parallelization, scheduling critical timers, and server failures.
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Asgard, the Grails App that Deploys Netflix to the Cloud
Joe Sondow presents how Netflix uses Asgard to deploy code updates and manage resources in the Amazon cloud.
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VMFest: Wrapping VirtualBox to Speedup Dev and Test Since 2010
Antoni Batchelli introduces VMFest, a PalletOps project used to turn VirtualBox into a lightweight cloud provider, good for developing cloud automation.
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Scala Async: A New Way to Simplify Asynchronous Code (Make the Compiler Do It!)
Philipp Haller explains how to do asynchronous programming in Scala with Scala Async, Futures and Promises.