Direct Allocated Buffers are extremely useful and used extensively when developing high-performance network applications in Java NIO. By allocating data directly outside the heap, in a number of cases you can write software where that data actually never touches the heap. via Escaping the JVM heap for memory intensive applications | Java Code Geeks.
Infinite Scroll for AngularJS via tagged/infinite-scroll · GitHub.
Contract versioning and API/Service versioning has always been a consideration for SOA based systems. Whether because of the impact it has on composability, or client-service governance, it is still something of an art rather than a science. There are many examples of groups giving the benefit of their experiences (e.g., around REST is extremely popular). …
Spanner – Google’s Distributed Database.
Jeff Harrell, Director of Engineering at PayPal, has explained in a couple of blog posts (Set My UI Free Part 1: Dust JavaScript Templating, Open Source and More, Node.js at PayPal) why they decided and some conclusions resulting from switching their web application development from Java/JSP to a complete JavaScript/Node.js stack. via PayPal Switches from Java to JavaScript.
FP Haskell Center™ The easy way to learn, create and share Haskell. Now available in a free community edition. via Welcome to FP Haskell Center | FP Complete.
Ninja Blocks Open Source Cloud Enabled Computers Offer Easy Home Automation.
Aaron Contorer created FP Complete, a commercial Haskell IDE and deployment platform. Software drives the innovation economy, from big data and software-defined networks to mobile applications and social media. via Stop wasting billions of dollars using the wrong software languages | VentureBeat | Dev | by JOD.
Over 500,000 complex transactions per second. Over 100,000 connections. On just 12 little servers. (That’s just getting started.) via InfiniSQL.
As evident from the TechEmpower Benchmarks, Java is significantly (often orders of magnitude) faster than other, more developer-friendly web frameworks like Django, Rails, or node.js. This means that you disadvantage yourself by creating web startups using these technologies, as scaling becomes a problem quite quickly, and scaling is not an easy problem to solve. Sparkler …