Data Engineering Resources

MongoDB: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

This cheatsheet gives a quick overview of what's good about MongoDB, what's not so good, and what might send you running for the hills.

October 6, 2016

by Darel Lasrado

· 69,044 Views · 14 Likes

Understanding Kafka Consumer Groups and Consumer Lag (Part 1)

In this post, we will dive into the consumer side of this application ecosystem, which means looking closely at Kafka consumer group monitoring. Read on to find out more.

October 6, 2016

by David Brinegar

· 85,617 Views · 11 Likes

NEST and UNNEST: Normalizing and Denormalizing JSON on the Fly

This article details a variety of nesting and unnesting procedures you can implement in Couchbase's N1QL to organize and query your data.

October 6, 2016

by Johan Larson

· 33,826 Views · 14 Likes

The Rise and Fall of Scala

See one writer's take on Scala — how it came about, where it succeeded, and how it's declining.

October 6, 2016

by Moshe Kranc

· 133,029 Views · 132 Likes

An Integrations Page for Your API Solution

Kin Lane shares his thoughts about how you can be sure that you are keeping up with all of the new API service providers.

October 6, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 3,047 Views · 3 Likes

Scalable Graph Analytics with Apache Spark: Part I

Get started with scalable graph analysis via simple examples that utilize GraphFrames and Spark SQL on HDFS.

October 5, 2016

by Mirko Kämpf

· 6,192 Views · 7 Likes

SpringData: Property Traversal

In this article, Shamik Mitra will discuss the details of the "Queryname," derivation technique.

October 5, 2016

by Shaamik Mitraa

· 7,124 Views · 3 Likes

Migrating EJB2 Entity Beans to EJB3 and JPA

Impossible is nothing. Read on to learn how to migrate all of the EJB2 Entity Beans from a legacy project to EJB3 Entity Beans with JPA.

October 5, 2016

by Eugen Hoble

· 14,846 Views · 4 Likes

An Opinionless Comparison of Spring and Guice

One developer maps out the features of both Spring and Guide from a dependency injection angle to see which one comes out on top.

October 4, 2016

by Nikhil Wanpal

· 39,713 Views · 28 Likes

5 Basic REST API Design Guidelines

These guidelines from Guy Levin are intended to help you in creating clean, easy to use, and easily understandable APIs.

October 4, 2016

by Guy Levin

· 63,252 Views · 60 Likes

Results of the Ultimate REST API Challenge

SmartBear Software launched the Ultimate REST API Challenge for two weeks. Here are the answers to the eight-question quiz, with explanations for each one.

October 4, 2016

by Rema Alyahya

· 4,346 Views · 1 Like

12 Factors and Beyond in Java

Get a sense of estimating the skills, knowledge of users, and developers. Invest adequately in the understanding of the existing codebase.

October 4, 2016

by Pieter Humphrey

· 31,667 Views · 15 Likes

IBM i Business Logic API With Mule

I walk through the process of exposing IBM i Business logic via APIs using Mulesoft Anypoint platform and Web Transaction Framework.

October 4, 2016

by Dmitriy Kuznetsov

· 4,705 Views · 2 Likes

Using the super_read_only System Variable

This blog post will discuss how to use the MySQL super_read_only system variable to prevent people from making unauthorized DML queries on your slave servers.

October 3, 2016

by Pablo Padua

· 11,272 Views · 1 Like

The Data Preparation Checklist: 6 Questions to Ask

This article covers best practices to simplify the data preparation process and increase its effectiveness.

October 3, 2016

by Eran Levy

· 5,725 Views · 2 Likes

Running Riak in Docker

How to run single or multiple nodes, test, run apps, and build your own container.

October 3, 2016

by Jon Brisbin

· 5,411 Views · 1 Like

Weekly Top 10: Continuous Delivery and the Future of DevOps

This week’s top news returns by highlighting Continuous Delivery as a best practice in software delivery. Continue reading for more on the latest DevOps news and trends.

October 3, 2016

by Anders Wallgren

· 7,084 Views · 1 Like

Reactive Microservices: Driving Application Modernization Efforts

Traditional enterprises are forced to rethink how they build applications because of rapidly changing use-cases and new requirements.

October 2, 2016

by Markus Eisele

· 23,562 Views · 30 Likes

API Design With Java 8

Learn to be a better Java programmer by mastering Java 8 API design, exposing a well-designed API, making sure that client code can use lambdas, and more.

September 30, 2016

by Per-Åke Minborg

· 102,038 Views · 165 Likes

Migrating a NorthWind Database to a NoSQL Database

Learn the reasoning, the data collection, the schema definition, and the migration procedures involved in moving to a NoSQL database.

September 30, 2016

by Basit Anwer

· 9,674 Views · 4 Likes

The Latest Data Engineering Topics