Should You Use Spring Boot in Your Next Project?
Spring Boot is the next-generation system for easy setup of new Spring applications. Should you be using it in your Spring projects?
Book Review: An Introduction to Programming in Go
Caleb Doxsey’s An Introduction to Programming in Go is a short and sweet survey of the Go programming language (a.k.a. “Golang”). Clocking in at 165 pages with easy-readable font and margins, the book flies through the …
Book Review: Professional Node.js
Professional Node.js, written by Pedro Teixeira and published by Wrox, is a well-crafted introduction to writing server-side JavaScript with the Node.js platform. The book weighs in at 412 pages, yet for a technical book it is …
JavaScript as a Mirror of Our “Real” Languages
How tightly coupled are JavaScript and server-side communities? When evaluating a JavaScript library, how much should its related communities matter? […]
WAR files vs. Java apps with embedded servers
When should you deploy a Java app to the server as a traditional WAR file, and when should you use an embedded server in the application itself? […]