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====== On the Server Side ======

Server-side development is changing too, but differently and more slowly than on the client.  Some forces I see changing server-side development are:

===== Multi-core programming =====

Multi-core is here.  

8-way servers are common these days.  4-way cell phones are here.  The laptop on which I'm writing this blog has 4 cores; so does my tablet.

But software development still mostly is written to utilize a single thread of execution.

The more cores we have in our hardware, the more pronounced this mismatch will become, which will pressure the industry into changing software-development practices to take advantage of the new power.

===== Functional Programming =====

Functional programming (FP) is one promising means of taking advantage of multi-core processors.  When done in a pure manner, often the compiler can parallelize certain tasks automatically.  Other operations--such as applying a single function over a large collection of data--can also be parallelized automatically if coded in a functional style.

Please see [[fp:home|Functional Programming Home]] for an index of my articles on FP.


===== General Java =====

Here are some general notes about Java that are applicable to server-side developers.

   * [[blog:In Java 5, 0 is not always equal to 0]]
   * [[Code Bloat Thread from E4 mailing list]]

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