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Introduction to Actors Systems
Josh Suereth designs a distributed search service with Akka using Actors, covering: message passing, designing topologies, handling failure, service overload detection and tracking user sessions.
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Don’t Trust Your Brain
Paolo Perrotta discusses the difficulties encountered while learning a new and quite different programming language, in his case Clojure, comparing it with Java and Ruby.
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Sprints, Scala, Scale & Serendipity: Blue Sky Thinking and Washing the Pots on the Road to Success at a Technology Startup
Ian Brookes and Rob Strange recount the journey and relationship of a Tech start-up and its software development partner, with the milestones and millstones along the way.
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Domain-Driven Design with Clojure
Amit Rathore shares advice in building large scale applications in Clojure, making sure the code is readable and maintainable.
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Clojure in the Field
Stuart Halloway shares insight from his experience using Clojure for production systems since 2008.
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Concurrency in Clojure
Stuart Halloway discusses concurrency features in Clojure: atoms, agents, futures, delays, promises, STM, and dynamic vars.
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Groovy for Fun and Profit
Ken Kousen presents a variety of small but non-trivial examples of Groovy in action, using techniques ranging from closures to parsers and slurpers to metaprogramming and AST transformations.
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Grails Goodness
Ken Kousen teaches the fundamentals of Grails through examples: domain classes, controllers, transactional services, producing XML and JSON data, Ajax, unit and integration testing, plugins.
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GETn2it - A Case Study of Building a Startup with Groovy & Grails
Brian Jimerson presents a startup case study, including business challenges and the architectural solution implemented with Groovy, Grails and Spring.
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Grails Goes Graph
Stefan Armbruster discusses building a Grails application with a graph data store based on Neo4j and sharing insight based on his own experience using such a system in production.
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Just Do It: Migrating to Grails
Emiliano Conde shares the process, tools, and lessons learned migrating jBilling.com from Struts/EJB to Grails/Spring.
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Clojure in the Wild Web–7 Reflections
Ignacio Thayer shares his team’s experience working with Clojure, some of the problems encountered, and provides advice for a faster development cycle.