Monday, August 31, 2015

Big Data in Memory

Storing data in custom binary format can significantly reduce storage and increase performance.
This is in particular visible with managed VM languages, like Java (48 Bytes for string "ABC" !!!)
With availability of large-memory computers, big data could fit in memory of a single machine...

VisualStudio Code

Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined.

video course online: Visual Studio Code – Pluralsight Training
by John Papa
sample code: johnpapa/pluralsight-vscode-samples

by Chris Dias, Erich Gamma, John Papa

by Chris Dias, Erich Gamma, Seth Juarez


"Erich Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist and co-author of the influential software engineering textbook, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. He co-wrote the JUnit software testing framework with Kent Beck and led the design of the Eclipse platform's Java Development Tools He also worked on the IBM Rational Jazz project.

He joined the Microsoft Visual Studio team in 2011 and leads a development lab in Zürich, Switzerland that has developed the "Monaco" suite of components for browser-based development, found in products such as Visual Studio Online, Visual Studio Code, Azure Mobile Services, Azure Web Sites, and the Office 365 Development tools."