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How Rules Can Foster Creativity: the Design System of Reykjavík

The value of design systems is especially evident in the public sector, where the need to use taxpayer money effectively aligns with the demand for user-centered solutions. By examining Reykjavík’s design system, we can gain insights into how design systems promote creativity, efficiency, and collaboration, with implications for both private and public sectors.

Auðbergur Gíslason
on Nov 07, 2024
Java

How Functional Programming Can Help You Write Efficient, Elegant Web Applications

Many things can make software more challenging to understand and, consequently, to maintain. One of the most complex and problematic causes is managing internal mutable states. When the internal state is poorly managed, the software behaves unexpectedly, leading to bugs and fixing, which introduces unnecessary complexity. FP solves this problem by providing immutability mechanisms and more.

Uberto Barbini
on Oct 04, 2024
.NET

WebAssembly and Containers: Orchestrating Distributed Architectures with .NET Aspire

Running, composing, and debugging distributed applications on the local developer machine can be difficult, error-prone, and time-intensive. Those daily tasks could be dramatically simplified thanks to .NET Aspire. In this article, we will quickly dive into .NET Aspire and illustrate how you can orchestrate next-generation distributed applications.

Thorsten Hans
on Sep 09, 2024
Java

WebAssembly, the Safer Alternative to Integrating Native Code in Java

Developers typically choose between porting the code or dynamic linking to run native code on the JVM. This article examines these approaches, using SQLite as an example, and introduces a third option: Chicory Wasm runtime. This alternative combines the advantages of traditional methods while addressing their limitations, potentially offering a more secure solution to integrate native code.

Benjamin Eckel
on Aug 14, 2024
Java

Java Virtual Threads: a Case Study

This article explores JDK 21's virtual threads, comparing their performance with Open Liberty's thread pool. It covers key findings like throughput, ramp-up times, and memory footprint. Despite advantages, virtual threads showed unexpected performance issues, especially in CPU-intensive workloads. This analysis guides Java developers on when and how to use virtual threads in their applications.

Gary DeVal Vijay Sundaresan Rich Hagarty Laura Cowen
on Jul 11, 2024
Web Development

Streaming HTML – Asynchronous DOM Updates without JavaScript

Web applications provide the best user experience when pages load quickly and display additional data as it becomes available. Developers typically use JavaScript to load data asynchronously, but this adds complexity when compared to server-side rendering. We review a technique that uses the Shadow DOM with HTTP streaming to load pages quickly and display data asynchronously without JavaScript.

Tyson Gern
on Jun 11, 2024
Architecture & Design

Polyglot Programming with WebAssembly: A Practical Approach

WebAssembly has expanded its scope from browsers to other domains like cloud and edge computing. It uses the WebAssembly Component Model (WCM) to enable seamless interaction between libraries from different programming languages, such as Rust, Python, and JavaScript, promoting a true polyglot programming environment.

Matt Butcher
on May 07, 2024
Web Development

You Don’t Need a CSS Framework

Developers use CSS frameworks to reduce boilerplate, increase quality, and drive consistency. However, these gains are hard to maintain as an application’s codebase matures. Developers must configure and override the framework to accommodate changes. Instead of using a CSS framework, developers should write their own custom CSS. CSS has evolved enough that this became the best option.

Tyson Gern
on May 06, 2024
Java

Modernizing Testing Practices for Jakarta EE Projects

This article focuses on the increasing adoption of data-driven testing in Java enterprise applications and sheds light on the Data and NoSQL Jakarta specifications. It highlights the significance of modern testing libraries such as JUnit Jupiter and AssertJ and emphasizes the importance of container-based frameworks like Testcontainers in enhancing testing practices.

Otavio Santana
on Apr 10, 2024
Architecture & Design

Article Contest: Write an Article for InfoQ and Win a QCon or Dev Summit Ticket

InfoQ encourages software practitioners and domain experts to submit full-length technical educational articles.

InfoQ
on Apr 08, 2024
Web Development

How to Sustain Quality and Velocity in a JavaScript or TypeScript Project?

The JavaScript language and its ever-changing ecosystem of packages and practices can make codebases quickly become hard to maintain. The resulting loss of development velocity and/or code quality can be prevented without rewriting everything from scratch, nor pausing the development of new features. In this article, we have analyzed a few best practices to help avoid that.

Adrien Joly
on Oct 20, 2023
Architecture & Design

InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2023

This article provides an overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2023, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.

Thomas Betts Blanca Garcia Gil Daniel Bryant Eran Stiller Vasco Veloso Tanmay Deshpande
on Apr 07, 2023