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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

· 11,182 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

· 5,807 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

· 18,647 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

· 10,422 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

· 5,785 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

· 8,099 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

· 22,817 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

· 20,657 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

· 11,091 Views · 13 Likes

Imperative vs. Declarative Query Languages: What's the Difference?

To say that any non-imperative query language is declarative is too broad a definition. See how declarative and imperative languages work and where the work best.

September 20, 2016

by Joy Chao

· 14,739 Views · 4 Likes

How MySQL X Plugin Works Under the Hood

X Plugin allows MySQL to function as a document store. We don’t need to define any schema or use SQL language while still being a fully ACID database.

September 20, 2016

by Miguel Angel Nieto

· 6,664 Views · 3 Likes

OpenStack: Core Components

OpenStack is an open source cloud software which consists of a series of allied projects controlling large pools of computing, storage, and network resources in a data center while managing through a dashboard. Let's look in detail at its various core components.

Updated September 19, 2016

by Sree Tejaswi

· 75,049 Views · 22 Likes

High-Quality Recommendation Systems with Elasticsearch: Part I

We argue that recommendations and search are two sides of the same coin. Both rank content for a user based on “relevance.” The only difference is whether a keyword query is provided. Read this article to find out more.

Updated September 18, 2016

by Doug Turnbull

· 11,797 Views · 7 Likes

Building a Language: Generating Bytecode

Federico Tomassetti's series on building your own language reaches bytecode.

September 18, 2016

by Federico Tomassetti

· 14,937 Views · 15 Likes

Monitoring Docker Containers with Elasticsearch and Cadvisor

If you run a Swarm Mode cluster or even one Docker engine, you've likely wondered how to keep track of all that's happening. Read for tips on monitoring your containers.

Updated September 17, 2016

by Lorenzo Fontana

· 12,795 Views · 9 Likes

Basic CRUD Operations Using Perl and DBD::Oracle

Use a driver to help you directly implement CRUD operations, giving you more control over your data and helping you make it work for you.

September 17, 2016

by Blaine Carter

· 4,833 Views · 5 Likes

API Stylebook: A Collection of Resources for API Designers

An API stylebook is now available for API designers to use, complete with helpful techniques cobbled together from 12 API design guides. Read on to find out more!

September 17, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 6,443 Views · 6 Likes

Running Multiple Zookeeper Instances on Single Windows Machine

This tutorial with screenshots will teach you how to run multiple instances of the popular config management software ZookeeperRunner on your local machine.

Updated September 16, 2016

by Mohammad Nadeem

· 37,294 Views · 5 Likes

Hazelcast vs ElastiCache (Memcached)

This article compares Hazelcast to the Amazon Web Services ElastiCache Memcached Engine. Cost, Features, Node Management, Fault Tolerance, Monitoring, and Performance are all evaluated.

September 16, 2016

by Terry Walters

· 10,289 Views · 11 Likes

Rake Tasks: db:seed vs. dev:prime

Using rake db:seed, which is already built into Rails, may seem preferable to using a custom rake task like rake dev:prime. However there's a time and place for both.

September 15, 2016

by Jason Draper

· 4,170 Views · 3 Likes

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