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Top 5 Factors That Impact Your Software Performance

Knowing where your software is failing is essential to identifying the bottleneck. These five performance-impacting factors give you a good place to start.

December 7, 2016

by Thamwika Bergstrom

· 6,972 Views · 3 Likes

How to Use Compare and Merge for SwaggerHub

Read on to find out how to keep API documentation shipping moving forward smoothly by using Compare and Merge for SwaggerHub.

December 7, 2016

by Keshav Vasudevan

· 8,127 Views · 4 Likes

Keeping Submodules Up to Date in Git

When your project gets complicated, it makes sense to split it up into manageable chunks. Git supports this process using submodules.

December 5, 2016

by Tim Myerscough

· 9,538 Views · 2 Likes

Software-Defined Integration: A New Trend or Just a Fancy Name?

Software-defined everything seems to be everywhere these days. In this article, Olga Annenko discusses software-defined integration and what it should mean to you.

December 5, 2016

by Olga Annenko

· 7,533 Views · 2 Likes

Predictions for DevOps in 2017

Security, containers, as-a-service, and enterprise-wide adoption.

December 2, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 11,048 Views · 4 Likes

How Can You Use ChefSpec to Unit Test Chef Cookbooks?

Learn how to set up a workstation to run Chef locally and use the existing Chef community cookbook to deploy the application on the local workstation environment.

November 30, 2016

by Greg Sypolt

· 6,083 Views

Testing a Node.JS Application Within a Docker Container

Learn how to take advantage of the Docker image layering model to run unit or component tests in a Docker container without polluting the production software.

November 29, 2016

by Nahshon Una-Tsameret

· 57,443 Views · 8 Likes

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

· 6,046 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

· 41,671 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

· 17,097 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

· 10,098 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

· 40,529 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

· 53,219 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

· 38,714 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

· 10,185 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

· 86,417 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

· 7,024 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

· 28,499 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

· 110,468 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

· 28,004 Views · 6 Likes

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