Marketing Director, Open Source Software @ Swim.ai. Writes about the swimOS platform and real-time distributed applications.
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by Brad Johnson, on Aug 21, 2019 12:48:22 PM
Ever since the first applications started moving data records, we’ve needed ways to annotate those records with formatting instructions. Many of these record notation formats are familiar to developers. For …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Aug 13, 2019 1:24:41 PM
Did you know that Swim.ai has its own podcast series? The SwimStreams podcast is a recurring series focussed on distributed applications and real-time software architectures. Hear from members of the …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Jul 19, 2019 12:45:39 PM
My job is convincing people to use free software. Intuitively, you would think it’s easier to sell something that’s free than convincing someone to pay you. It’s not. Even if …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Jul 2, 2019 3:19:54 PM
Today, the Java ecosystem remains one of the largest developer communities on planet earth. At over 9 million active developers, the Java programming language is used every day to build and run systems …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Jun 24, 2019 12:35:31 PM
Even the most simple chat user interfaces bely a world of architectural complexity. Features like authentication, user presence, chat rooms, user counts, message encryption and countless others represent a significant …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Jun 21, 2019 10:34:55 AM
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the noble REST API. They’re anywhere and everywhere. REST is the lingua franca of the application world. REST APIs have been the equivalent of software …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Jun 13, 2019 12:06:10 PM
The first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. And while the advent of the iPhone was hardly the only catalyst of the smartphone revolution, I consider this to be …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on Jun 7, 2019 12:11:52 PM
Five years ago when I started tracking media buzz around stateful architectures, I’d see a few articles every month about running stateful containers. That's about when Caitie McCaffrey first shared this awesome …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on May 31, 2019 7:57:00 AM
Aggregating data from heterogeneous REST APIs and streaming sources can be a pain. In order to achieve real-time insights or visualizations, developers need to efficiently combine REST and streaming data …
Read Storyby Brad Johnson, on May 24, 2019 11:52:56 AM
I’ve written previously about Scott Clarke’s Greenhouse demo app because it’s a good example of how to build integrations between external frameworks and Swim. While Swim functions perfectly well on …
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