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Naive server-side rendering (SSR) techniques require a dedicated server thread per HTTP request, thereby limiting the number of concurrent requests to the available server threads. Furthermore, this approach proves impractical for modern...

Kotlin scope functions allow the execution of code blocks in a richer scope, typically with the end goal of making code simpler to write and read. There are five different scope functions:...

The yield keyword is a well-known feature in most programming languages to pause and resume generator functions. Yet, what is the performance overhead of interleaving a yield-based operation in streams processing? In...

Troca de bitaites entre dois professores do ISEL e dois dos seus ex-alunos. Nesta conversa, recheada de divagações e de descontração, foram abordados diversos temas relacionados com a área de engenharia de...

In this article, Miguel Gamboa et al. argue against the use of an external DSL to implement HTML templates, such as using JSP, handlebars, Thymeleaf, Vue, or others, that introduce new dialects...

Está publicada no YouTube a gravação da conversa entre o Paulo Pereira e o Pedro Felix acerca do suporte Kotlin para corrotinas. O Pedro Félix fala da motivação para o seu uso...

The Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) module integration in the equipment enhanced the functional characteristics to a richer and more interesting level than those achieved in previous versions to this integration. This integration...

Using Java libraries in the Kotlin ecosystem is a well-known approach. Yet, does it also apply in the opposite direction? I.e. Does it make sense to use a Kotlin library in Java?...

After another semester teaching Web Development, the following question arises to my mind: can we teach Node Js without callbacks? Considering that we cannot avoid Promises and async/await, should we continually introduce...