Data Engineering Resources

Distributed Application Development Through Microservices

A microservice architecture design pattern has advantages over a monolithic design pattern. The idea is to divide the single application into interconnected applications.

October 12, 2016

by Sunny Gupta

· 22,710 Views · 23 Likes

FLoM: The Free Lock Manager

This article introduces FLoM, a free and open-source software project that provides a tool for local and distributed process synchronization.

October 11, 2016

by Christian Ferrari

· 5,054 Views · 4 Likes

COUNT and GROUP Faster With N1QL

Couchbase 4.5 has put work into optimizing queries. See how you can use COUNT, MIN, and other parameters to more effectively search your data.

October 11, 2016

by Keshav Murthy

CORE

· 12,455 Views · 8 Likes

Build a JSON API Microservice With Spring Boot and Elide

Click here to learn how you can securely expose JPA entities via a testable JSON API interface with Spring Boot and Elide.

October 11, 2016

by Matthew Casperson

· 20,789 Views · 10 Likes

Import a Data Hierarchy From Excel Into SQL Server

When a client hands you data for a project, it's usually in a database of some kind. Today, learn how to work some Excel magic to import a hierarchy into a database.

October 11, 2016

by Jonathan Danylko

· 8,582 Views · 2 Likes

Spring Data Series (Part 4): @Query Annotation

Check out this hands-on tutorial detailing how to use @Query annotations in Spring Data.

October 10, 2016

by Shaamik Mitraa

· 36,664 Views · 12 Likes

Logging Mosquitto Server Logs (From Raspberry Pi) to Logentries

Data is the key to IoT. If you're using Mosquitto to log your Pi data, check out how you can get them filtered into Logentries for consolidation.

October 10, 2016

by David Tracey

· 13,248 Views · 2 Likes

Spring Data Series (Part 3): Typesafe Query

Today, we dive into how Spring Data incorporates the querydsl project to provide simpler naming conventions and overcomes shortcomings.

October 9, 2016

by Shaamik Mitraa

· 12,467 Views · 8 Likes

Addressing Big Data Failures in Predictive Analytics

This article covers how to prevent big data failures in predictive analytics by diving into strategies for proper implementation, common mistakes, proper big data structuring, and more.

October 8, 2016

by Ryan Kh

· 10,396 Views · 4 Likes

Hash Tables, Mutability, and Identity: How to Implement a Bi-Directional Hash Table in Java

Mutability can affect the behavior of hash tables. Misunderstanding mutability can cause objects stored in a hash table to become irretrievable and essentially disappear.

October 7, 2016

by Wayne Citrin

· 20,455 Views · 12 Likes

Understanding Kafka Consumer Groups and Consumer Lag: Part II

In Part II, we'll look at Kafka Coordinator, lag as a KPI, and more!

October 7, 2016

by David Brinegar

· 29,661 Views · 4 Likes

Increased Analytics at the API Client and SDK Level

API providers are including more analytics services...but are the features more about data generation than they are about analytics?

October 7, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 4,102 Views · 1 Like

The Different Reasons Behind Why We Craft API Definitions

Kin Lane explains the process behind creating API definitions as a learning tool and considers why we craft API definitions.

October 7, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 3,210 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 69,111 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

· 85,694 Views · 11 Likes