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IoT Push Notifications: Arduino, Firebase, and Android

This quick and easy tutorial will show you how to implement push notifications for IoT apps.

September 27, 2016

by Francesco Azzola

· 35,550 Views · 9 Likes

IOPS: Benchmarking Disk I/O – AWS vs DigitalOcean

In this article, we will see how to do this and we will compare the performance between two different providers.

September 26, 2016

by Christopher Sam K

· 37,576 Views · 6 Likes

AWS and Azure: SLAs and Service Credits

See how both AWS and Microsoft Azure handle breaches to their SLAs with this head-to-head comparison. Learn how each rewards users if their service goes down.

September 26, 2016

by Christopher Sam K

· 22,450 Views · 2 Likes

How to Authenticate With JGit

In this post, Alex Soto shows you how to authenticate to a Git repository with JGit.

September 26, 2016

by Alex Soto

· 32,324 Views · 6 Likes

Head to Head: Apache Impala vs. Amazon Redshift

See up-close comparisons of Impala and Redshift, complete with benchmarks and feature comparisons.

September 23, 2016

by Mostafa Mokhtar

· 10,531 Views · 2 Likes

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

· 11,237 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

· 5,857 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

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· 18,721 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

· 10,478 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

· 5,848 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

· 8,179 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

· 23,031 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

· 20,742 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

· 11,161 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

· 14,858 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

· 6,730 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

· 75,181 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

· 11,905 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

· 15,193 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

· 12,860 Views · 9 Likes

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