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SDK Patterns for Accelerating API Integration

In this article, James Higginbotham explains what an SDK is, the differences between SDKs and helper libraries, and four different SDK patterns for API providers.

November 29, 2016

by James Higginbotham

· 5,949 Views · 2 Likes

Optimum Database Connection Pool Size

Want to figure out the best size for your connection pool? Here's how the math pans out, courtesy of some simple logic.

November 28, 2016

by Anubhav R Mulchandani

· 41,623 Views · 5 Likes

Real-World Problems Solved By DevOps

Improved quality, speed to market, and reduced cycle times with automation are just a few of the major issues that DevOps can handle.

November 28, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 17,071 Views · 3 Likes

Logging Docker Containers With AWS Cloudwatch

This post describes how to set up the integration between Docker and AWS and then establish a pipeline of logs from CloudWatch into the ELK Stack.

November 28, 2016

by Daniel Berman

· 10,046 Views · 3 Likes

The Most Important Elements of DevOps

People, process, and technology are three of the most important elements of DevOps. Which other elements would you name?

November 27, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 40,495 Views · 8 Likes

Health Checking Your Docker Containers

Are your containers feeling under the weather? Struggling to get out of bed? See how you can build in health checks to make sure your containers are fighting fit.

November 25, 2016

by Arun Gupta

· 53,148 Views · 9 Likes

HDFS Cheat Sheet

This article serves as a quick hands-on guide and tutorial to the most useful HDFS commands for managing HDFS files from the command line.

November 24, 2016

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 38,581 Views · 5 Likes

PyGitHub Quickstart Examples

Helpful examples can make up for a lack of documentation. In this article, Chase Seibert shares some of his example code.

November 24, 2016

by Chase Seibert

· 10,154 Views · 1 Like

Get to Know Netflix's Zuul

Here's a look at what Zuul can offer your applications, ranging from authentication and security to routing to resiliency and more.

November 22, 2016

by Rafael Salerno

· 86,320 Views · 19 Likes

Developing a Facebook Chatbot With AWS Lambda and MongoDB Atlas

Learn how to program your own chatbot with the helping hands of AWS Lambda and MongoDB's DBaaS, Atlas.

November 21, 2016

by Jason Ma

· 6,983 Views · 7 Likes

Why Do Microservices Need an API Gateway?

With the growth of API-centric IT initiatives, API gateways and management layers are common place. Should we consider an API gateway for microservices?

November 20, 2016

by James Higginbotham

· 28,446 Views · 16 Likes

Tracing in Microservices With Spring Cloud Sleuth

Follow along to gain some insight into tracing requests that span multiple microservices in the Spring Cloud ecosystem.

November 18, 2016

by Ryan Baxter

· 110,421 Views · 21 Likes

How to Build Microservices in Python

In this article, learn how to deploy microservices that are created using either Python and Django on both Nginx and uWSGI.

November 15, 2016

by Rakesh Kalidindi

· 27,973 Views · 6 Likes

Git Behind the Curtain: What Happens When You Commit, Branch, and Merge

Keith Gregory discusses object management, branches, merges, SHA-1, Git, and more in this talk script. Read on to learn all you need to know!

November 15, 2016

by Keith Gregory

· 29,975 Views · 21 Likes

An API-First Development Approach

The API-first approach allows products to evolve into organic, self-organizing ecosystems that can grow to handle new and unforeseen demands.

November 15, 2016

by Guy Levin

· 73,488 Views · 5 Likes

How to Use the YARN API to Determine Resources Available for Spark Application Submission (Part 3)

In this final installment of the series, check out several other features of the YARN API, such as the capacity scheduler and calculating overhead.

November 11, 2016

by Rachel Warren

· 10,503 Views · 1 Like

Joining the Big Leagues: Tuning Jenkins GC for Responsiveness and Stability

Learn how to tune Jenkins Java settings to make your masters more responsive and stable, especially with large heap sizes.

November 11, 2016

by Samuel Van Oort

· 9,436 Views · 3 Likes

How to Automate JMeter and Selenium Tests

In this article, learn how to integrate automated load testing and browser testing into the Continuous Integration cycle.

November 11, 2016

by Guy Salton

· 10,340 Views · 5 Likes

Building Docker Images With Puppet

Now available from Puppet is the ability to create Docker images via Puppet code. Read on to find out how to use it and where to get it.

November 11, 2016

by Gareth Rushgrove

· 7,464 Views · 4 Likes

Integrating Quality Assurance Throughout the Deployment Pipeline

Emphasis on innovation is a prime requirement for both attracting consumer interest and the assured functionality of the application that integrated testing provides.

November 10, 2016

by Sanjay Zalavadia

· 6,677 Views · 2 Likes

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