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What are the principles of DevOps? Why does DevOps exist? Mohamed Radwan dives deeper into the main ideas behind DevOps.

September 30, 2016

by Mohamed Radwan

· 13,474 Views · 6 Likes

Spring Cloud Netflix: Load Balancer with Ribbon/Feign

The idea in this post is to show some concepts about load balancing, Ribbon and Feign, and step by step process for working with Ribbon and Feign.

September 29, 2016

by Rafael Salerno

· 113,627 Views · 23 Likes

Insert DynamoDB Items With DynamoDBMapper

As we continue our series, once you've mapped your tables into Java objects, it's then time to insert them. Learn how to do that here.

September 28, 2016

by Emmanouil Gkatziouras

CORE

· 14,746 Views · 4 Likes

Playing Atari Games Using RAM State

Deepmind shows how a playing agent given the RAM state of an Atari 2600 can do great things.

September 28, 2016

by deepsense.io Blog

· 4,912 Views · 2 Likes

How to Read a Large CSV File With Java 8 and Stream API

Scenario: you have to parse a large CSV file (~90MB), practically read the file, and create one java object for each of the lines. What do you do?

September 28, 2016

by Eugen Hoble

· 262,939 Views · 27 Likes

How to Quickly Load 380K Items Into MySQL

See how a bit of legwork and a single statement can save you a lot of time and overhead when working with MySQL data.

September 27, 2016

by Eugen Hoble

· 10,636 Views · 6 Likes

IoT Push Notifications: Arduino, Firebase, and Android

This quick and easy tutorial will show you how to implement push notifications for IoT apps.

September 27, 2016

by Francesco Azzola

· 35,009 Views · 9 Likes

IOPS: Benchmarking Disk I/O – AWS vs DigitalOcean

In this article, we will see how to do this and we will compare the performance between two different providers.

September 26, 2016

by Christopher Sam K

· 36,629 Views · 6 Likes

AWS and Azure: SLAs and Service Credits

See how both AWS and Microsoft Azure handle breaches to their SLAs with this head-to-head comparison. Learn how each rewards users if their service goes down.

September 26, 2016

by Christopher Sam K

· 21,160 Views · 2 Likes

How to Authenticate With JGit

In this post, Alex Soto shows you how to authenticate to a Git repository with JGit.

September 26, 2016

by Alex Soto

· 30,871 Views · 6 Likes

Head to Head: Apache Impala vs. Amazon Redshift

See up-close comparisons of Impala and Redshift, complete with benchmarks and feature comparisons.

September 23, 2016

by Mostafa Mokhtar

· 10,079 Views · 2 Likes

How DBAs Should Be Evolving With Database Automation

As DBAs are saddled with more duties and responsibilities, it can be a strain to handle them manually. See where automation can make your life easier.

September 23, 2016

by Yaniv Yehuda

· 10,896 Views · 4 Likes

''AAA'' API Testing - Accessible, Affordable, Agile

How Service Virtualization addresses the growing challenge of testing third-party APIs.

September 22, 2016

by Heather Peyton

· 5,622 Views · 4 Likes

Map DynamoDB Items to Objects Using DynamoDBMapper

See a demonstration of the DynamoDBMapper class, which helps map your tables' items to Java objects.

September 22, 2016

by Emmanouil Gkatziouras

CORE

· 18,353 Views · 4 Likes

MongoDB Point-in-Time Backups Made Easy

See how to protect your data on MongoDB with point-in-time backups. This article walks you through the steps to configure and use your backups to ensure your data's safety.

September 22, 2016

by David Murphy

· 10,085 Views · 2 Likes

Inside CockroachDB’s Survivability Model

This interview with Marc Berhault takes a look into CockroachDB and its heavy focus on data redundancy. This model allows CockroachDB to survive and thrive even after heavy hits.

September 21, 2016

by Dave Avery

· 5,465 Views · 1 Like

Serenity BDD and the Screenplay Pattern: Designing SOLID Actors

In this article, Jan Molak answers some of the most popular questions related to designing Screenplay Actors and making them SOLID.

September 21, 2016

by Jan Molak

· 7,667 Views · 5 Likes

Modeling Microservices at Spotify with Petter Mahlen

At a microservices talk in March in Sweden, Petter Mahlen, Backend Infrastructure Engineer at Spotify, spoke to a packed house at Jfokus about microservices.

September 21, 2016

by Carissa Karcher

· 21,709 Views · 15 Likes

Change Data Capture Using Apache NiFi

Capturing all changes from a relational database with Apache NiFi is very easy and explained. CDC is a common use case for extracting transactional data in a streaming manner to populate a datawarehouse or datalake in Hadoop.

September 20, 2016

by Mark Herring

· 20,033 Views · 4 Likes

A Couchbase Index Technique for LIKE Predicates With Wildcard

Take a look at some of the latest changes to Couchbase in action, including a more efficient way to index and query your data.

September 20, 2016

by Tai Tran

· 10,786 Views · 13 Likes

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