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MongoDB is a versatile tool, but it's not perfect for everything. For situations where it doesn't work, you can sometimes use design patterns to get around them.

June 15, 2016

by Darel Lasrado

· 21,256 Views · 11 Likes

MySQL vs. MongoDB: The Pros and Cons When Building a Social Network

When building a social network, it's important to think over the benefits and drawbacks of the major database types.

June 15, 2016

by Darren Perucci

· 12,846 Views · 1 Like

Practical Fun with NetBIOS Name Service and Computer Browser Service (Part 2)

Part 2: Computer Browser Service. This article will give an introduction to how computers appear in the Windows Network window and why network neighborhood discovery in Windows is, well… not particularly reliable, to say the least.

June 14, 2016

by Vladimir Gladkov

· 12,943 Views · 2 Likes

What is JSON? How Do I Use It? Does It Beat BSON?

If you’ve ever wondered about JSON—what it is, how to use it or what it has to do with BSON—then you’ve come to the right place. In this article I’ll explore what these acronyms stand for and what these formats do in the world of programming and databases.

June 14, 2016

by Darren Perucci

· 6,182 Views · 1 Like

Putting the 'Micro' Into Microservices With Raspberry Pi

A brilliant post on building real life microservices on Raspberry Pis, including service discovery, scalability, and the use of JAX-RS.

June 14, 2016

by Holly Cummins

· 13,032 Views · 8 Likes

Redis Production Checklist

If you are going into production with Redis, it is a good idea to check over a few things before you go live.

Updated June 14, 2016

by Darren Perucci

· 6,061 Views · 8 Likes

From POSIX to AWS and S3

Learn how storage evolved from the prototypical hierarchical method of old to the seemingly limitless systems of AWS' S3 system.

June 12, 2016

by Brad King

· 5,131 Views · 3 Likes

Practical Golang: Getting Started With NATS and Related Patterns

This article discusses the simple, astonishingly fast Message BUS NATS, as well as how to use it in Go.

June 11, 2016

by Brian Flannery

· 18,100 Views · 3 Likes

Elasticsearch Throttling Indexing

If segment merging falls behind indexing, Elasticsearch will throttle indexing requests to a single thread.

June 10, 2016

by James Carr

· 11,218 Views · 2 Likes

Relation of Middleware to Microservices, Docker, and Cloud-Native Architectures

This rather long, but extremely well-researched article by Kai Wähner is a follow-up and update to his previous article "Microservices and whether that spells the death of the Enterprise Service Bus and other middleware." In this piece, he discusses how relevant microservices, containers, and a cloud-native architecture is for middleware. Take the time and read this... it's well worth it!

June 10, 2016

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 31,298 Views · 10 Likes

Here’s What to Do to Combine Multiple JMeter Variables

This quick tip will walk you through building a JMeter Variable from two or more other variables.

June 10, 2016

by Dmitri Tikhanski

· 13,121 Views · 2 Likes

Real-World Problems Being Solved With Software

Building software that helps run companies.

June 9, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 36,141 Views · 2 Likes

Testing the Hibernate Layer With Docker

We are all writing unit tests for the service layer, but the persistence layer, in contrast, is rarely tested. Luckily, Docker offers TestContainers.

June 9, 2016

by Kai Winter

· 4,556 Views · 4 Likes

Schematic of Standalone Arduino With FTDI Programming

Check out this follow-up to Sony Arouje's "Arduino in a Breadboard" article, wherein he shows a schematic of the system that he used.

June 9, 2016

by Sony Arouje

· 6,972 Views · 3 Likes

Elastic Query in Azure SQL Database and Views

Creating views that join across databases? Read this article to find out how to make those views play nice with Elastic Query.

Updated June 7, 2016

by Grant Fritchey

· 5,916 Views · 3 Likes

Long Numbers Are Truncated in MongoDB Shell

MongoDB is notorious for it's quirks; in this short read, MVB Ricci Gian Maria explains how he solved this problem with the popular document store.

June 6, 2016

by Ricci Gian Maria

· 11,072 Views · 4 Likes

Add Custom Functionality to a Spring Data Repository

This how-to article explains how to get some extra mileage and flexibility out of Spring Data repositories.

June 6, 2016

by Emmanouil Gkatziouras

CORE

· 5,952 Views · 6 Likes

Troubleshoot OutOfMemoryError: Unable to Create New Native Thread

"java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread" got you down? Check out this article for some tips on how to deal with it.

June 4, 2016

by Ram Lakshmanan

CORE

· 171,040 Views · 12 Likes

Apache Ignite: How to Read Data From Persistent Store

In this post, author Dmitriy Setrakyan shows you how to load data from a MySQL database into an Ignite distributed cache. Read on and see how it's done.

June 3, 2016

by Dmitriy Setrakyan

· 36,843 Views · 13 Likes

Understanding execFile, spawn, exec, and fork in Node.js

In this article, author Can Ho breaks down four different methods for executing external applications in Node.js, providing examples along the way.

June 3, 2016

by Can Ho

· 290,921 Views · 10 Likes

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