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See how to store financial figures like amounts in currency or FX rates in SQL Server, which is often required when constructing databases or data warehouses.

July 14, 2017

by Mateusz Komendołowicz

· 52,820 Views · 3 Likes

Hadoop Cluster Capacity Planning of Data Nodes for Batch and In-Memory Processes

Let's talk about capacity planning for data nodes. We'll start with gathering the cluster requirements and end by learning about RAM requirements.

Updated July 14, 2017

by Mamta Chawla

· 48,714 Views · 8 Likes

PDF Creation With Java

Need to make some PDFs with Java? If you're not familiar with iText library, here's your chance to see this piece of open source software generate PDFs.

July 14, 2017

by Arun Pandey

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· 75,780 Views · 29 Likes

An Introduction to Kafka

Learn the basics of Apache Kafka, an open-source stream processing platform, and learn how to create a general single broker cluster.

July 14, 2017

by Prashant Sharma

· 75,507 Views · 51 Likes

Building Serverless on AWS Lambda

Here we see the benefits of serverless computing when deploying APIs to the cloud, focusing on AWS' offering, Lambda, working with other services.

July 14, 2017

by Piotr Mińkowski

· 11,094 Views · 9 Likes

Optional Anti-Patterns

Optionals have proven so useful that some devs have taken them out of their native habitat. Here are anti-patterns and code smells to avoid.

Updated July 13, 2017

by Przemyslaw Magda

· 64,160 Views · 61 Likes

Top 10 Websites Written Using ASP.NET MVC

We take a look at ten popular web sites that were written with ASP.NET MVC. Some of the entries on this list might surprise you!

July 13, 2017

by Jonathan Danylko

· 192,089 Views · 1 Like

To Framework or Not To Framework?

The librarians claim that frameworks are unnecessary clutter to a project. The frame-workers use the frameworks anyway so that they can focus on the real business.

July 13, 2017

by Grzegorz Ziemoński

· 18,402 Views · 36 Likes

Easily Write a GOTO Statement in JMeter

In this post, we take a look at how you can setup a GOTO statement in JMeter with ease! Read on for details on GOTO statements and instructions.

July 13, 2017

by Matias Fornara

· 6,582 Views · 7 Likes

Get Started With Spring Boot, OAuth 2.0, and Okta

Let's go from start to finish to make a Spring Boot app that uses OAuth for its authorization workflows and Okta for actual validation.

July 13, 2017

by Matt Raible

· 19,416 Views · 9 Likes

SQL-Like Operations With Java Using Streams

Among the Streams API's uses is easily processing data. Here is how to get SQL-like functionality out of your Streams with some best practices to keep in mind.

July 12, 2017

by Harinath Kuntamukkala

· 18,810 Views · 6 Likes

Automated Testing Using Jenkins and Python

See how to use Jenkins and Python to reach optimized automated testing, including points about plugins and integrations.

July 12, 2017

by Ankit Gupta

· 21,373 Views · 4 Likes

A Service Mesh for Kubernetes (Part 7): Distributed Tracing Made Easy

Once both Linkerd and Zipkin are deployed to your apps, you can begin collecting and disentangling distributed tracing data.

Updated July 12, 2017

by Alex Leong

· 5,072 Views · 3 Likes

Interacting With a Long-Running Child Process in Python

There's no single fits-all solution for this task, but here are a bunch of recipes to handle the more commonly occurring situations.

July 12, 2017

by Eli Bendersky

· 22,627 Views · 2 Likes

Running Your Load Tests With PassFail Criteria - A Guide

Learn about two ways to automatically check if a specific test breaches your thresholds: using either Taurus in PassFail mode, or using Jenkins with Taurus or JMeter.

July 12, 2017

by Guy Salton

· 7,361 Views · 2 Likes