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SE-Radio Episode 316: Nicolai Parlog on Java 9

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SE-Radio Episode 316: Nicolai Parlog on Java 9

Nate Black talks with Nicolai Parlog about Java 9. Topics include: a timeline of Java features; new patterns enabled by Java 8 lambdas, default interface implementations and how they enable code evolution; how Java 9 takes this further with private default methods; an introduction to Java modules: the Java Platform Module System (JPMS); “launch time” […]

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SE-Radio Episode 310: Kirk Pepperdine on Performance Optimization

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SE-Radio Episode 310: Kirk Pepperdine on Performance Optimization

Kirk Pepperdine talks with IEEE Software editor in chief Diomidis Spinellis about performance optimization. Topics include development practices, tools, as well as the role of software architecture, programming languages, algorithms, and hardware advances. Topics include: how a performance diagnostic model containing the system’s components can help us understand what each component is responsible for and […]

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SE-Radio Episode 291: Morgan Wilde on LLVM

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SE-Radio Episode 291: Morgan Wilde on LLVM

Morgan Wilde talks with SE Radio’s Jeff Meyerson about the LLVM compiler toolchain. They begin with a discussion of how a compiler works and how compiled code executes against different processor architectures. Using the JVM as a model for interoperability, they move on to how LLVM is a system that optimizes an intermediate representation (IR), […]

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SE-Radio Episode 282: Donny Nadolny on Debugging Distributed Systems

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SE-Radio Episode 282: Donny Nadolny on Debugging Distributed Systems

Donny Nadolny of PagerDuty joins Robert Blumen to tell the story of debugging an issue that PagerDuty encountered when they set up a Zookeeper cluster that spanned across two geographically separated datacenters in different regions.  The debugging process took them through multiple levels of the stack starting with their application, the implementation of the Zookeeper […]

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SE-Radio Episode 267: Jürgen Höller on Reactive Spring and Spring 5.0

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SE-Radio Episode 267: Jürgen Höller on Reactive Spring and Spring 5.0

Eberhard Wolff talks with Jürgen Höller about Reactive Spring. Reactive programming is a hot topic, but adoption has been slow in the enterprise. Spring 5 incorporates Reactor and the RxJava API to help Java developers build scalable high-performance web applications. The discussion explores architectural challenges, transactions, porting existing applications, and increased code complexity. Venue: GOTOcon Amsterdam […]

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