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Getting Started With Docker: Simplifying DevOps
Docker, an open source tool, has changed the way we think about deploying applications to servers. By leveraging some amazing resource isolation features of the Linux kernel, Docker makes it possible to easily isolate server applications into containers, control resource allocation, and design simpler deployment pipelines. Moreover, Docker enables all of this without the additional overhead of full-fledged virtual machines.
Radek Ostrowski
Radek is a blockchain engineer with an interest in Ethereum smart contracts. He also has extensive experience in machine learning.
Building an MVC Application With Spring Framework: A Beginner’s Tutorial
The Spring Framework is a powerful, feature-rich, and well-designed framework for the Java platform. It offers a collection of programming and configuration models that aim to simplify and streamline the development process of robust and testable applications in Java. In this article, Toptal engineer Stefan Varga challenges the popular notion of Java as a complicated platform for simple needs, and walks us through a step by step tutorial to building a simple MVC application with the Spring Framework and JPA.
Stefan Varga
Stefan is a qualified software developer with a computer science degree and nearly a decade of experience in the tech industry.
Unity With MVC: How to Level Up Your Game Development
In this article I’ll relate my experience with the popular Unity game development platform and the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern for game development. In my seven years of development, having wrestled with my fair share of game dev spaghetti, I’ve been achieving great code structure and development speed using this design pattern.
Eduardo Dias da Costa
Eduardo is a developer with 12+ years of experience focused on client and front-end applications. He is always open to learning new things.
Simplifying RESTful API Use and Data Persistence on iOS with Mantle and Realm
A large number of modern mobile applications interact with web services in one way or another, and iOS applications are no different. Mantle (a model framework) and Realm (a mobile database) come with the promise of simplifying some of the hurdles in consuming web services through RESTful APIs and persisting data locally. In this article, Toptal engineer Marcin Kmiec shows how to build a simple iOS application using Mantle and Realm and demonstrates how this approach helps to eliminate a large amount of boilerplate code.
Marcin Kmiec
With several important research papers published, Marcin’s put his PhD in computer vision to use developing C++/Objective-C/Swift apps.
Choosing The Best Headphones For Developers
Even if you have a brand new notebook and a flagship smartphone, you should not rely on stock hardware for professional voice calls. It’s simply not good enough; otherwise there would be no aftermarket audio industry to begin with.
Nermin Hajdarbegovic
As a veteran tech writer, Nermin helped create online publications covering everything from the semiconductor industry to cryptocurrency.
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OpenGL Tutorial for Android: Building a Mandelbrot Set Generator
OpenGL, a cross-platform API for rendering 2D and 3D graphics, is extremely powerful and yet surprisingly easy to get started with. Although one may find the most common applications of OpenGL and rendered graphics in video games only, in reality there are far more uses. To demonstrate the power of OpenGL, we’ll be building a Mandelbrot set generator on Android using OpenGL ES.
Asa Kaplan
Asa is a computer science and math graduate with 6+ years of experience using Java, Python, and C++. He likes to work on machine learning.
After All These Years, the World Is Still Powered by C Programming
Despite the prevalence of higher-level languages, the C programming language continues to empower the world. There are plenty of reasons to believe that C programming will remain active for a long time. Here are some reasons that C is unbeatable, and almost mandatory, for certain applications.
Daniel Munoz
Daniel has created high-performance applications in C++ for large companies such as Dreamworks. He also excels with C and ASM (x86).
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