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API Showdown: REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC – Which Should You Use?
Alex Borysov, Matt McLarty and Michelle Garrett discuss REST, GraphQL, and gRPC, what it takes to get started, and when each is the right/wrong tool for the job.
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Declarative APIs in an Imperative World
Tilde Thurium explains problems the Atom Editor team came across when they started using React as their UI framework, as well as the solutions they came up with.
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Testing the Endpoints of Your REST APIs
Tonya Cooper discusses how to test REST API endpoints through unit testing the controllers and integration testing with Postman.
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Goodbye REST APIs. Hello GraphQL!
Cory House discusses GraphQL, what makes it attractive, how GraphQL integrates with React, Angular, Vue and others, and how to migrate from REST APIs.
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Documenting RESTful APIs with Spring REST Docs
Jenn Strater introduces Spring REST Docs and its test-driven approach to RESTful API documentation.
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A Practical Guide to GenStage with a Real-Life Use Case
Gyanendra Aggarwal introduces Elixir GenStage, a back-pressure abstraction, demonstrating how to use it through a real case warehouse automation.
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Practical Eff Monad for Microservices
Eric Torreborre presents using the Eff monad at Zalando to structure a REST microservice, introducing an approach for dependency injection using the Reader monad (classic) and tree rewriting.
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High Performance Data Mart Using Event Plots
Chaitanya Chalasani presents a case study and demonstration of near real-time asynchronous event processing-based plotting of events and states of FSMs.
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Erlang and Akka Actors–A Story of Tradeoffs
Pranav Rao discusses how BEAM differs from Akka actors implemented over the JVM and how design decisions can affect performance.
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Turn Hours into Seconds - Concurrent Event Processing
Emil Soman discusses implementing a thread safe solution to a concurrency problem using Flow, Elixir's concurrent computation library.
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Spring Tools 4 - Eclipse and Beyond
Martin Lippert and Kris De Volder introduce and demo a new generation of Spring tools including Spring Tool Suite for Eclipse (STS4), STS4 VS Code and STS4 Atom.
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GitHub's GraphQL Future
Kyle Daigle shares why GitHub chose GraphQL, how it differs from REST, how GitHub went about implementing it, and how they're using it in production a year later.