“Communications of the ACM” articles …

For the last one year or so, I have been an avid reader of the “Communications of the ACM” Magazine (http://cacm.acm.org/). I find it quite refreshing that in every issue there are atleast a few articles that are relevant to every day software development and in this post, I have made a short-list of articles that I found really interesting as well as useful.

Whither Sockets : A look at the Sockets API, its origins, how it has evolved, and its drawbacks (June 2009, Vol.52, No.6).

API Design Matters : An extremely well written article on how to design APIs (May 2009, Vol. 52, No.5).

Scalable Synchronous Queues: This article is not available in its entirety on the website (need to be a member). So I have linked it to a PDF from the author’s website (May 2009, Vol. 52, No.5).

ORM in Dynamic Languages : A fascinating article on how Hibernate is used in GORM (the persistence component of Grails). So many of these ideas can be quite easily transferred over to Java and make Hibernate usage a lot easier in Java (April 2009, Vol.52, No.4)

Concurrent Programming with Erlang : Once again, a member-only accessible article, but available via ACM Queue (March 2009, Vol.52, No.3).

Happy reading !!