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Distributed resilience with functional programming

Steve Vinoski on when to make the leap to functional programming.

by Simon St. Laurent | @simonstl | +Simon St. Laurent | February 8, 2013
Functional programming has a long and distinguished heritage of great work — that was only used by a small group of programmers. In a world dominated by individual computers running single processors, the extra cost of thinking functionally limited its appeal. Lately, as more projects require distributed systems that must always be available, functional programming approaches suddenly look a…
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LISA mixes the ancient and modern: report from USENIX system administration conference

System administrators try to maintain reliability and other virtues while adopting cost-cutting innovations

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | +Andy Oram | December 14, 2012
I came to LISA, the classic USENIX conference, to find out this year who was using such advanced techniques as cloud computing, continuous integration, non-relational databases, and IPv6. I found lots of evidence of those technologies in action, but also had the bracing experience of getting stuck in a talk with dozens of Solaris fans. Such is…
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Applying markup to complexity

The blurry line between markup and programming.

by Simon St. Laurent | @simonstl | +Simon St. Laurent | August 9, 2012
When XML exploded onto the scene, it ignited visions of magical communications, simplified document storage, and a whole new wave of application capabilities. Reality has proved calmer, with competition from JSON and other formats tackling a wide variety of problems, while the biggest of the big data problems have such volume that adding markup seems likely to create…
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Why use Scala

Why use Scala

Alex Payne on Scala's upside and combining object-oriented and functional capabilities.

by Laurie Petrycki | @lauriep | +Laurie Petrycki | June 14, 2012

Alex Payne, co-author of the "Programming Scala," talks about the advantages of using Scala.

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Editorial Radar: Functional languages

Editorial Radar: Functional languages

The benefits of functional languages and functional language techniques.

by Laurie Petrycki | @lauriep | +Laurie Petrycki | May 3, 2012

O'Reilly editors Mike Loukides and Mike Hendrickson discuss the advantages of functional programming languages and how functional language techniques can be deployed with almost any language.

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