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Check out this detailed look at the performance of AWS Aurora, following on an earlier post with improvements based on reader feedback.

June 1, 2016

by Peter Zaitsev

· 7,856 Views · 5 Likes

Benchmarking High-Concurrency HTTP Servers on the JVM

Benchmarking HTTP servers is beset by several difficulties: tests may be conducted with unrealistic parameters (e.g., pure overhead v maximum concurrency), and thus yield unuseful results. Our tests are different and produced some interesting outcomes that yielded new learnings about HTTP performance in the wild.

May 31, 2016

by Fabio Tudone

· 40,236 Views · 10 Likes

Test Automation, API Testing, and Service Virtualization in DevOps

We have less and less time to test products before release. How can we keep up with things like continuous deployment and still deliver quality products? Read on to find out.

May 25, 2016

by Erika Barron-Delgado

· 9,020 Views · 5 Likes

What Tools Do You Need for Continuous Delivery?

A 101 crash course on some of the basic categories of tools for DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices.

May 24, 2016

by Badri Srinivasan

· 47,099 Views · 13 Likes

Optimize Spark With Distribute By and Cluster By

How the distribute by and cluster by commands in SparkSQL are great ways to optimize your Spark applications.

May 24, 2016

by deepsense.io Blog

· 32,101 Views · 3 Likes

Evaluating Message Brokers: Kafka vs. Kinesis vs. SQS

A comparison of the best message brokers for big data applications between SQS, Kinesis, and Kafka.

May 14, 2016

by Swaroop Ramachandra

· 71,567 Views · 20 Likes

Setup Docker on Windows Server 2016

A step by step guide to native containerization on Windows Server.

May 13, 2016

by Arun Gupta

· 23,115 Views · 5 Likes

Service Discovery With Docker and Consul: Part 1

Service discovery is vital in large system deployments. Learn how to use Docker and Consul to help your deployments run more smoothly and get home at a decent hour.

May 12, 2016

by Jos Dirksen

· 21,893 Views · 4 Likes

What Does DevOps 2.0 Look Like?

Decoupling feature rollout from code deployment and the rise of user-centered deployments

May 11, 2016

by Justin Baker

· 20,154 Views · 13 Likes

Histogram Functions in Accelerate vImage

How to use Apple's vImage API in Swift to manipulate the histogram of images programmatically.

May 10, 2016

by Simon Gladman

· 4,142 Views · 1 Like

Automate CodeCommit and CodePipeline in AWS CloudFormation

A thorough look at the integration of CodeCommit and CodePipeline, and how to reach Continuous Delivery

May 9, 2016

by Paul Duvall

· 9,163 Views · 3 Likes

4 Cluster Management Tools to Compare

Cloud-based infrastructure, containers, microservices, and new programming platforms are dominating the media and sweeping across IT departments around the world.

May 6, 2016

by Anand Akela

· 11,197 Views · 2 Likes

Custom SecurityContext in JAX-RS

An article about how to override the default security-related information associated with a JAX-RS request using a custom SecurityContext.

May 3, 2016

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 31,237 Views · 9 Likes

Service Discovery for NGINX Plus with ZooKeeper

Learn how to use services registered with Apache Zookeeper to issue API calls correctly.

April 28, 2016

by Patrick Nommensen

· 5,966 Views · 4 Likes

The State of Jenkins — 2015 Community Survey

Results from the 2015 Jenkins Community Survey, suggesting that DevOps adoption has grown even more.

April 22, 2016

by Brian Dawson

· 5,941 Views · 3 Likes

Authentication in Golang With JWTs

Go is an excellent choice for building fast and scalable API's. The net/http package provides most of what you need, but augmented with the Gorilla Toolkit, you'll have an API up and running in no time. Learn how to build and secure a Go API with JSON Web Tokens and consume it via a modern UI built with React.

April 21, 2016

by Adnan Kukic

· 23,384 Views · 8 Likes

Building Blocks for Highly Available Systems on AWS

An upcoming article from DZone's Guide to Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud, coming out next week!

April 21, 2016

by Andreas Wittig

· 8,491 Views · 5 Likes

Deploy to WildFly and Docker From IntelliJ Using Management API

When you are new to both Docker and IntelliJ how do you deploy your Java EE applications? Steve Favez shows you how.

April 21, 2016

by Steve Favez

· 27,558 Views · 11 Likes

How to Measure the ROI of Your Cloud Spending

Quantifying the cost of cloud ownership is no simple task. Take some of these tips to measure the ROI of your cloud spending.

April 20, 2016

by Darren Perucci

· 6,923 Views · 7 Likes

Using Stubs for the AWS SDK for Ruby

Code that makes use of external dependencies can be difficult to test. If you are using AWS, then you have no doubt run into issues in testing your code. This article takes you through how to get around this little hurdle by using AWS Stubs if you are using Ruby.

April 18, 2016

by Jeff Dugas

· 6,503 Views · 2 Likes

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