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Exception Handling in Real-Life Java Applications

Exception handling in an application can often be varied, inconsistent, or inappropriate. This article proposes an API to make exception handling more robust and efficient.

June 22, 2016

by Jalal Kiswani, PhD

· 51,980 Views · 31 Likes

Open Sourcing Geppetto, an Automation Framework for Distributed Systems

Geppetto is a newly open sourced automation framework for testing and automating distributed systems with Python. This can be used with Open Source NoSQL.

June 17, 2016

by Aaron Feldman

· 6,882 Views · 3 Likes

Technical Solutions Used To Develop Software

While more than 50 were mentioned, Java, Node.js, .Net, Open Source, and PHP were mentioned most frequently.

June 8, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 4,912 Views · 1 Like

CUBA Platform: An Open-Source Java Framework for Rapid Application Development

This article looks at the CUBA Platform – an open-source framework combining solid architecture, "must-have" features for enterprise applications, and rapid application development tools.

June 2, 2016

by Aleksey Stukalov

· 34,468 Views · 21 Likes

Thoughts on JSRs, TCKs, and Open Source

Most Technology Compatibility Kits are closed source, making it difficult to get reference implementations of JSRs certified. Is it time to change this?

May 27, 2016

by Sebastian Daschner

· 6,039 Views · 3 Likes

What Tools Do You Need for Continuous Delivery?

A 101 crash course on some of the basic categories of tools for DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices.

May 24, 2016

by Badri Srinivasan

· 47,004 Views · 13 Likes

IOT Standards and Remote Services

A thorough and well though out discussion of a simple yet important question; how can we embrace open standards in IoT?

May 4, 2016

by Scott Lewis

· 3,183 Views · 1 Like

Hadoop in Healthcare, Part 1

How Hadoop and open source big data analytics technology are positively helping the healthcare industry become more effective.

April 26, 2016

by Richard Proctor

· 11,062 Views · 4 Likes

How to Measure the ROI of Your Cloud Spending

Quantifying the cost of cloud ownership is no simple task. Take some of these tips to measure the ROI of your cloud spending.

April 20, 2016

by Darren Perucci

· 6,868 Views · 7 Likes

Myrtille: Access Your Desktop Everywhere

How the open source tool Myrtille allows users to take advantage of Windows remote desktops from their web browsers.

April 11, 2016

by cedric coste

· 10,006 Views · 6 Likes

Weekly Top 10: Your DevOps Flavor

Some of the best DevOps links from around the web, courtesy of Electric Cloud.

April 6, 2016

by Anders Wallgren

· 5,251 Views · 1 Like

A Data Lake Architecture With Hadoop and Open Source Search Engines

"Big data" and "data lake" only have meaning to an organization’s vision when they solve business problems by enabling data democratization, re-use, exploration, and analytics. Read on to learn what a data lake is, its various benefits, and what's to come.

April 4, 2016

by Carlos Maroto

· 35,961 Views · 6 Likes

How Did MongoDB Get its Name?

Curious how MongoDB got its name? Here's your quick history lesson for the day.

April 2, 2016

by Darren Perucci

· 12,088 Views · 10 Likes

An Introduction to Graphite

A look at the open source, real-time graphing system for querying, transforming, and combining time series metrics.

March 17, 2016

by Lodewijk Bogaards

· 9,144 Views · 3 Likes

While I Will Miss Parse, I Wish Every Service That Shutdown Left Behind The Same Page

Parse is shutting down and will be missed by many. However, their resources for running an open sourced Parse backend on your own server, and migration info sets an example for other services on how to properly shut down.

March 14, 2016

by Kin Lane

· 4,632 Views · 3 Likes

Embedded Linux on a 2-Layer Board!

A blog about Clementine Core, a fork-ready two-layer Linux computer you can build yourself.

February 29, 2016

by Jay Carlson

· 19,207 Views · 4 Likes

12 Great Web Service Testing Tools

In recent years, API use, and reliance on web services has increased. Here's a list of 12 awesome web service testing tools to aid your API and web service journey.

February 24, 2016

by NaveenKumar Namachivayam

CORE

· 300,565 Views · 38 Likes

Real-time Data Pipelines with Kafka Connect

Information about Kafka Connect sourced from Spark Summit East 2016.

February 19, 2016

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 16,599 Views · 5 Likes

Introducing Dynamic Modules in NGINX 1.9.11 - NGINX

The open source NGINX v. 1.9.11 is out, and features an awesome addition: dynamic modules. These let you load separate shared object files at runtime. Learn more about the latest open source NGINX 1.9.11 release!

February 10, 2016

by Patrick Nommensen

· 17,742 Views · 1 Like

Fundamentals of Big Data Log Analytics

A presentation and slide deck on using several different tools including Graylog Splunk, and TIBCO to analyze log data.

February 8, 2016

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 10,199 Views · 3 Likes

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