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Using a Chi-Square Test to Satisfy Benford's Law With Python

Learn how to run a chi-square test in Python to analyze the distribution of factorials to satisfy Benford's Law, which is often used in fraud detection.

June 23, 2016

by John Cook

· 7,545 Views · 4 Likes

How to Set Up a Maven Repository In Minutes

A tutorial on how to set up Artifactory as a Maven repository to resolve and deploy artifacts in Maven builds.

June 22, 2016

by Sam Rubashkin

· 27,589 Views · 8 Likes

Tutorial: Muxing With the New NXP Pins Tool

Erich Styger decided to make his own tutorial for muxing with the NXP pins tool. His step-by-step instructions will give you a very thorough walkthrough of how to get it done.

June 22, 2016

by Erich Styger

· 3,882 Views · 1 Like

Microservices With Spring Boot, Axon CQRS/ES, and Docker

The Command and Query Responsibility Separation pattern, as it says, separates command from query so they can scale and evolve independently.

June 22, 2016

by Ben Wilcock

· 35,186 Views · 17 Likes

Exception Handling in Real-Life Java Applications

Exception handling in an application can often be varied, inconsistent, or inappropriate. This article proposes an API to make exception handling more robust and efficient.

June 22, 2016

by Jalal Kiswani, PhD

· 51,487 Views · 30 Likes

MongoDB Shard Key Examples

Sharding is one of MongoDB's more useful features. But given the options, here is a breakdown of suggestions and scenarios to pick the most efficient keys.

June 21, 2016

by Darel Lasrado

· 14,119 Views · 5 Likes

NGINX as a Reverse Proxy for Docker Swarm Clusters

In this post, we are going to see how to use NGINX as a reverse proxy for load-balancing containerized HTTP applications running in a Swarm cluster. We’ll also look at how to automate the service discovery.

June 20, 2016

by Lorenzo Fontana

· 14,663 Views · 2 Likes

GitHub Continuous Deployment to a Raspberry Pi

Instead of just using SCP to get files over to my device, I wanted to be able to have my Raspberry Pi update whenever there was an update to the master branch of the node project I was working on.

June 20, 2016

by Daniel Egan

· 24,017 Views · 9 Likes

Types of Cursors Available in Oracle PL/SQL

Here's a breakdown of the various pointers to SQL result sets you can implement in your code.

June 20, 2016

by Steven Feuerstein

· 19,005 Views · 5 Likes

Open Sourcing Geppetto, an Automation Framework for Distributed Systems

Geppetto is a newly open sourced automation framework for testing and automating distributed systems with Python. This can be used with Open Source NoSQL.

June 17, 2016

by Aaron Feldman

· 6,686 Views · 3 Likes

Implementing Hadoop's Input and Output Format in Spark

A detailed tutorial on how to use Apache Spark to implement Hadoop input and output formats.

June 17, 2016

by VIKALP JAIN

· 40,227 Views · 5 Likes

Why Java Is a Purely Object-Oriented Language... Or Why Not

Java—is it actually object-oriented? Let's take a look deep into Java to try to figure it out.

June 16, 2016

by Naresh Joshi

CORE

· 31,615 Views · 9 Likes

Don't Go Into ElasticSearch Production Without This Checklist

Some great tips to keep in mind when embarking on your ElasticSearch journey.

June 16, 2016

by Darren Perucci

· 5,515 Views · 2 Likes

9 Important Steps for Successful Integration Projects

System integration involves integrating existing (often disparate) subsystems and then creating unique and new value for the customer or end user. This blog lays out various steps to take and things to consider when planning an integration solution.

Updated June 16, 2016

by Anil Bhimineni

· 11,043 Views · 2 Likes

Redis Replication vs Sharding

Replication and sharding can both be helpful in providing for these needs. Whether your database is in need of one, the other, or both, it is helpful to know what each of these does.

June 15, 2016

by Darren Perucci

· 10,106 Views · 3 Likes

MongoDB Design Patterns

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

· 21,460 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

· 12,996 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

· 13,029 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

· 6,266 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

· 13,195 Views · 8 Likes

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