When 1001 milliseconds isn't fast enough, Ilya Grigorik offers some techniques to build a mobile website that loads as quickly as possible. He even supplies the statistics to show why this matters.
Our 10th episode of Dart Tips! We're officially through the boilerplate, and now we're getting into some really fun stuff with an introduction to classes. Plus, there's more to come!
What is an approximate collection? Avi Bryant discusses data collection, Twitter's Algebird, and ways to gather a ton of information with only a bounded amount of memory.
Did you know that Foursquare's entire server is implemented in Scala? Watch this video to see how their engineering team deals with performance issues by using Twitter's build tool 'pants'.
Straight from the source, learn how to gracefully handle exceptions and errors in Dart. Don't get caught off guard the next time you run into an error, learn more about try, catch, finally, and throw.
In this presentation from the Northeast Scala Symposium, core committer and maintainer Lars Hupel gives a brief overview of the Scalaz 7 library, including new features which improve usability.
This demo rich presentation includes introductions to Web Components and Google's Dart. Ever heard of a tag for ? Seth Ladd shows us that, yes, it's possible.
Blake Matheny, VP of Engineering at Tumblr, shows us code from their backend and the methods they've used for troubleshooting. He also includes what he calls the "7 distributed systems deadly sins."
Can SIMD help the web work faster? John McCutchan thinks so. Find out why in this compelling talk centered on Google's Dart and a tool for a faster web that's already in your device.
Dr. Roland Kuhn, Akka tech lead at Typesafe, discusses how types, macros and runtime compilation have been applied to sort actor messages into type-safe channels.
YO! Learn more about Dart's control flow statements. Plus, this video shows you a helpful tweak that should make web developers quite happy. A few more videos and you'll be an official Dartisan.
Twitter data scientist Oscar Boykin explores the distinctions between functional programming and mathematics, and discusses several recent Twitter products: algebird, bijection, and scalding.
Join John De Goes, Precog's CEO/CTO, as he reveals many of the nuances of building a data science platform (100% Scala!), and some of the lessons learned on working on such a project.