Data Engineering Resources

Simulating Split Brain Scenarios in an Akka Cluster

This deep dive into split brain scenarios in Akka clusters covers what they are, how they form, and most importantly, how to fix them.

January 28, 2018

by Matthew Borg

· 16,302 Views · 13 Likes

Microservice Communication Using Consul, Ribbon, and Feign - A Step-by-Step Guide

In this tutorial, you'll build an application and learn how to set up communication between its microservices using Consul, Ribbon, and Feign.

January 27, 2018

by Gitanjali Sahoo

· 46,731 Views · 4 Likes

Citus and pg_partman: Creating a Scalable Time Series Database on Postgres

The best in class for improving time partitioning is pg_partman and today, we'll dig into getting time partitioning set up with your Citus database cluster using pg_partman.

January 26, 2018

by Craig Kerstiens

· 7,583 Views · 2 Likes

JSON and PL/SQL 12.2: Get Values From JSON Documents With API

Learn about pre-defined PL/SQL object types to perform fine-grained programmatic construction and manipulation of in-memory JSON data.

January 26, 2018

by Steven Feuerstein

· 12,815 Views · 5 Likes

RDF Triple Stores vs. Labeled Property Graphs: What's the Difference?

RDF triple stores and labeled property graphs both provide ways to explore and graphically depict connected data. But the two are very different and each has different strengths in different use cases.

January 26, 2018

by Jesus Barrasa

· 27,654 Views · 6 Likes

Microservices With Spring Boot - Part 4 - Using Ribbon for Load Balancing

This tutorial series continues by teaching you how to use Ribbon as a load balancer in your Spring Boot microservices project.

January 26, 2018

by Ranga Karanam

CORE

· 27,365 Views · 30 Likes

Microservices With Spring Boot - Part 3 - Creating Currency Conversion Microservice

Today, we'll learn how to build a currency conversion microservice as part of this tutorial on setting up a microservices architecture with Spring Boot.

January 25, 2018

by Ranga Karanam

CORE

· 24,366 Views · 15 Likes

implyr: R Interface for Apache Impala

A new R package implyr enables R users to query Impala from R using the popular package dplyr. Come and learn all about it!

January 25, 2018

by Ian Cook

· 7,174 Views · 1 Like

10 Advantages of Redis

Redis has lots of advantages, from its very own hashing mechanism called Redis Hashing to its ability to be installed in Raspberry Pi and ARM devices.

January 25, 2018

by Unni Mana

· 41,288 Views · 7 Likes

Database Design Decisions for Multi-Version Concurrency Control

The MVCC design choices implemented in NuoDB are shown to achieve good overall performance both in terms of transactional throughput and latency.

January 25, 2018

by Milena Ivanova

· 6,399 Views · 3 Likes

Building a Graph Database Wannabe (Part 1)

Learn how I built Uranus DB, a graph database wannabe, in five to seven days and about ten bucks worth of Diet Dr. Pepper.

January 24, 2018

by Max De Marzi

· 12,335 Views · 4 Likes

API Management Design Patterns for Digital Transformation

No matter what kind of architecture has been applied to your code base, we look at three API management patterns that you might find useful.

January 24, 2018

by Chanaka Fernando

CORE

· 10,873 Views · 1 Like

Monitoring Kafka Data Pipeline

Learn how to use open-source tools to develop a monitoring and testing solution for a pipeline using Kafka without writing any code.

January 24, 2018

by Randhir Singh

· 16,272 Views · 8 Likes

Microservices With Spring Boot - Part 2 - Creating a Forex Microservice

This tutorial series continues by showing how to build a microservice with Spring Boot and get it to work with Spring MVC, JPA, Hibernate, and H2.

January 24, 2018

by Ranga Karanam

CORE

· 22,572 Views · 24 Likes

Java Autonomous Driving: Car Detection

Ever wanted to build a real-time video object detection application? Well, we do just that in this post, with the view to having it work in autonomous cars!

January 24, 2018

by Klevis Ramo

· 27,062 Views · 32 Likes

ZK MVVM Pattern: Server-Side Data Binding

ZK is a great framework for developing in Java and performing data binding on said web applications. Read on to learn more!

January 23, 2018

by Hawk Chen

CORE

· 22,283 Views · 23 Likes

How to Use the Jenkins Performance Plugin

If you're interested in Jenkins, review this article about how to use the performance plugin to get an accurate measure of your application's load capacity.

January 23, 2018

by George Maksimenko

· 38,894 Views · 7 Likes