Who is More Functional: Kotlin, Groovy, Scala, or Java?
What is “functional programming” (FP)? Is it a paradigm, a mind-set, or just a buzzword? What’s good about it? How can we benefit from it? This session discusses functional aspects of modern...
View ArticleBuild a Scalable API with Grails
This talk shares with you the experience building a platform of online services for mobile games with Grails with the goal to support a big load. It focuses on the system architecture, the problems...
View ArticlePolyglot Programming in the JVM
The JVM boasts one of the biggest software ecosystems: you will find libraries, components and servers of all sizes, types, colors and flavors; which have made Java the choice language for many....
View ArticleFunctional Groovy
In recent years functional programming has gained ground over object oriented mainly due to the advancement in computing power. The JVM is no exception, you can find powerful contenders in Clojure and...
View ArticleGroovy AST Demystified
Compilers are powerful tools, they pretty much translate your thoughts into machine code. Extensible compilers are even more powerful. It turns out that the Groovy compiler can be extended by means of...
View ArticleGrails Plugin Best Practices
Grails plugins are a great way to reuse and share common code, and to modularize an application. In this talk we’ll look at the general process for creating a plugin. I addition, we’ll look at the...
View ArticleBuilding Grails Applications With Gradle
Learn how we can use the Gradle build tool to build and wrangle Grails applications. Gradle is an open source build tool, based on the Groovy programming language. It is very different from existing...
View ArticleFunctional Programming in Groovy
Functional programming style is gaining popularity. Though Groovy is not a functional programming language, writing in functional style is common and idiomatic in Groovy. While you have used these...
View ArticleGriffon Update
Griffon is an open source rich client platform framework which uses the Groovy programming language (which is in turn based on the Java platform). Griffon is intended to be a high-productivity...
View ArticleGroovy Introduction
Groovy is a dynamic language for the JVM that is fully source-code-compatible with Java, while at the same time introducing new and advanced program language concepts. Learn about some of these new...
View ArticleArchitectural Flexibility with Groovy
This presentation showcases some of the many features of Groovy. How the flexibility of the language alongside other JVM languages can be used to give flexibility in your software architecture and...
View ArticleReleasing With Gradle
Releasing a new version of your software should be a smooth one-click process. But depending on your project environment, this process can involve multiple additional steps to your usual build....
View ArticleGroovy Code From the Trenches
From the trenches of daily Groovy and Grails development of online (administrative) applications, I want to to highlight pieces of design and code that could be of use, or rather inspiration for other...
View ArticleWeb and Mobile Applications with Spring and Groovy
Rich media and digital content are an integral part of nearly all Web and mobile applications today, but the growing number of platforms, changing business demands and time to market are a major...
View ArticleGrails Transactions
Properly performing multiple data updates requires a transaction, but how do we do this in Grails? Services are the best option, but there are different approaches that can be used. We’ll look at how...
View ArticleHexagonal Grails Architecture
Are you happy with the 3-tier architecture in your Grails applications? This presentation explains how to apply the Life Preserver tool to implement the Hexagonal architecture in Grails applications....
View ArticleHigh Performance Reactive Java Apps with Vert.x
Vert.x is a lightweight, high performance, reactive application platform for the JVM that’s designed for modern mobile, web, and enterprise applications. In this talk you will learn about the design...
View ArticleUsing Groovy and Grails with Spring Boot
The emergence of Spring Boot has significantly improved the development of applications with Spring, allowing you to create applications faster by improving the configuration and removing repetitive...
View ArticleDeveloping Single-page Applications with Grails
Client-side MVC frameworks like EmberJS, AngularJS or Backbone are getting more popular over time. They represent a big architectural change to what web developers are used to: moving from server-side...
View ArticleReactive Grails: Event Oriented Architecture
This presentation discusses this idea of loosely coupling things in software with an event oriented architecture. How does it apply to Grails? Which benefits for your today’s and tomorrow’s...
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