As I've seen in my previous post , the interest in functional programming is high. This is the reason I want to write an introduction about ...

Demystifying and explaining the idea of “data constructors”—from languages like Elm, Grain, Haskell, F#, OCaml, ReasonML, etc.—by implementing an example in TypeScript. (more…)

As an engineer for the U.S. Digital Service, Marianne Bellotti has encountered vintage mainframes that are still being used in production — sometimes even powering web apps. Last month she entertained a San Francisco audience with tales about some of ...

The Permanent Generation (PermGen) Heap is a heap in the JVM dedicated to storing the JVM’s internal representation of Java Classes (and also interned String instances). Usually, this heap is of a fixed size in the JVM and if it runs out of space then an... (more…)

In a previous post, we announced that Oracle was beginning to explore moving Java EE technologies to an open source foundation in order to make the process of... (more…)