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Generating Laplace Distributed Random Values

Although it's simple to generate Laplacian random values, the Laplace distribution is not always one of the built-in options for random number generation libraries.

March 14, 2018

by John Cook

· 5,472 Views · 3 Likes

Hello OpenJ9 on Windows, I Didn’t Expect You so Soon!

Move over HotSpot, there's a new JVM on the block. See how to get OpenJ9 running on Windows and how it can help with your Java projects.

March 14, 2018

by Holger Voormann

· 18,452 Views · 10 Likes

Go Microservices, Part 7: Service Discovery and Load Balancing

Continue on your microservice development journey by learning how to set up service discovery and load balancing in your new service.

March 14, 2018

by Erik Lupander

· 25,063 Views · 9 Likes

Creating HTML From PDF, Excel, or Word With Apache NiFi and Apache Tika

Let's look into extracting text or HTML from PDF, Excel, and Word documents via Apache NiFi.

March 14, 2018

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 11,619 Views · 5 Likes

Vertical Scaling and Horizontal Scaling in AWS

Vertical and horizontal scaling are two distinct ways of ramping up your cloud capabilities, depending on the amount of traffic you recieve.

March 14, 2018

by Jignesh Solanki

· 73,853 Views · 10 Likes

Features in Java 10

Let's take a sneak peek int what's coming in Java 10, including local variable type inference and APIs for unmodifiable collections.

Updated March 13, 2018

by Gowtham Girithar Srirangasamy

· 59,607 Views · 16 Likes

5 Annotations Every Java Developer Should Know

In this article, we will take a look at 5 of the annotations supported by all Java compilers and take a look at their intended uses.

March 13, 2018

by Justin Albano

CORE

· 125,896 Views · 74 Likes

Seamlessly Render a Preact Component in a React Project [Livecoding]

Have you ever wanted to render a Preact component inside a React project? It's hard, right? Read on to find out how to get it to work.

March 13, 2018

by Swizec Teller

· 6,130 Views · 2 Likes

Secure .NET Core Applications From ClickJacking: .NET Core Security Part III

We continue our look at .NET Core security by examining ClickJacking and how to prevent this type of cyberattack in your web app.

March 13, 2018

by Neel Bhatt

· 16,732 Views · 3 Likes

Investigating Problems With Ad-Hoc Queries Using SQL Monitor

There are plenty of ways that apps can unintentionally misuse databases. When the abuses are pervasive, you can catch them by means of a few deft queries on various DMOs.

March 13, 2018

by Phil Factor

· 5,529 Views · 2 Likes

Logging to AWS Cloudwatch Logs

Learn how to easily configure the slf4j logging framework to use AWS Cloudwatch to store your logs, for AWS or on-premise.

March 13, 2018

by Dieter Bogdoll

· 28,540 Views · 4 Likes

Microservices - Part 4: Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker Using Netflix Hystrix

This microservices tutorial continues by showing how to set up a circuit breaker to fix potential issues from microservice dependencies.

March 13, 2018

by Siva Prasad Reddy Katamreddy

· 70,089 Views · 22 Likes

HA and Zone Affinity With Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka

This microservices tutorial will teach you how to set up zone affinity with Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka.

March 13, 2018

by Marcos Barbero

CORE

· 12,048 Views · 5 Likes

Introducing Spring Boot

We go over a quick conceptual introduction to Spring Boot before moving on and developing a REST API using this Java-based framework.

March 13, 2018

by Hussein Terek

· 64,701 Views · 38 Likes

How to Implement Data-Driven Testing in your JMeter Test

One of the many advantages of DDT is that the tester mustn't create a separate test for each piece of input data. Here's how it works.

March 13, 2018

by Sergey Horban

· 18,434 Views · 1 Like

MySQL 8 vs. MariaDB: Comparison of Window Functions and CTEs

Window functions and CTEs have been a mainstay of many popular DB products for some time now. With the release of MySQL v8 and MariaDB 10.2.0, both vendors have caught up with competing DBMSes.

March 12, 2018

by Shree Nair

· 14,028 Views · 6 Likes

Spring Boot 2.0 on ACID! Big Data + Spring Boot

Here is a guide to using Spring Boot 2.0 with Apache Hive LLAP ACID tables to make the most of a Big Data pipeline.

March 12, 2018

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 45,054 Views · 17 Likes

Replacing commons-lang ToStringBuilder With Eclipse

Want to get the benefit of Apache's commons-lang ToStringBuilder class, but don't want to add the dependency? Here's how to do it with Eclipse.

March 12, 2018

by Gabriel Belingueres

· 9,053 Views · 2 Likes

MongoDB and Data Streaming: Implementing a MongoDB Kafka Consumer

This article introduces Apache Kafka and then illustrates how to use MongoDB as a source and a destination for streamed data.

March 12, 2018

by Andrew Morgan

· 35,978 Views · 17 Likes

SOLID Design Principles Explained - The Single Responsibility Principle

The SOLID design principles can be a little tricky to get your head around. In this post, we dive into the S in SOLID - the Single Responsibility Principle.

March 11, 2018

by Thorben Janssen

· 24,214 Views · 30 Likes

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