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Why You Need to Upgrade to Java 8 Already
The newest version of the Java platform, Java 8, was released more than a year ago. Many companies and developers are still starting new applications with old versions of Java. There are very few good reasons to do this, because Java 8 has brought some important improvements to the language. I’ll show you a handful of the most useful and interesting ones.
Eduard Grinchenko
Eduard (MCE) is a talented Java engineer with rich expertise in OOP analysis. He’s worked the whole SDLC, from design to maintenance.
Cryptocurrency for Dummies: Bitcoin and Beyond
Bitcoin created a lot of buzz on the Internet. It was ridiculed, it was attacked, and eventually it was accepted and became a part of our lives. However, Bitcoin is not alone. At this moment, there are over 700 AltCoin implementations, which use similar principles of CryptoCurrency.
Demir Selmanovic
Demir is a developer and project manager with over 15 years of professional experience in a wide range of software development roles.
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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.
Digital Nomads Can Manage Teams, And Manage To See The World
Some people like the known and predictable. They freak out when their daily routine gets disrupted. But, I’ll bet if you are doing any kind of creative work like programming or design, you are not one of those people. Ordinary day-to-day office work will kill you. It will eventually strip your motivation, creativity or flare for what you do.
Lora Plesko
Lora has over 10 years of experience in IT as UX designer, business analyst, project manager, and QA.
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.
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