Service discovery is vital in large system deployments. Learn how to use Docker and Consul to help your deployments run more smoothly and get home at a decent hour.
Tuning any database for maximum performance is crucial to most any application. We have a look at some of the bets practices for tuning one important aspect of MySQL: memory usage.
Persistence is a part of almost every Java enterprise application. Unfortunately, persisting domain objects is a non-trivial task. On the contrary, it generates a lot of problems, especially when we're using a relational database. Let's see different approaches to the problem.
Programming interviews can be daunting at the best of time, and throwing TDD and pairing into the mix is enough to make anyone nervous. Interview expert Sam Atkinson runs through how to prepare for the big day.
The Oracle functions CASE, DECODE, and COALESCE all perform similar functionality. They can transform a value into another value. Which one should you use? I'll explain the pros and cons of each in this article.
Take a look at some of the common mistakes made when measuring and reporting performance, and how can you generate useful reports for your own projects.
It's the post that every developer has been waiting for. All the questions you were too afraid to ask but are pivotally important to know the answers to regarding web security.
The issue of multiple threads or processes trying to modify the same data at the same time is one as old as programming itself. Is it possible to avoid the situation altogether? Or are we left with the current, age-old implements?
If you have used MongoDB, you probably have noticed that it follows a default disk usage policy a bit like "take what you can, give nothing back." However, there will be situations where you don't want to allow MongoDB to keep hogging all of your disk space to itself. So, how would you reclaim this disk space? Read on and find out.
