A lot of players on the market have built successful MapReduce workflows to daily process terabytes of historical data. But who wants to wait 24h to get updated analytics?
In this article, look at how to detect if a user is active on a Windows machine in order to help deliver notifications more effectively. Read on to find out more.
The case is made for using Java EE 7 and 8 over Spring. Whether it's backward compatibility, the minimal configuration, or other benefits, here's what he has to say.
Amazon has updated their CloudFormation templates that now includes YAML, references across stacks, multiline support, and a simpler way to substitute strings.
Read this post and learn how you can process data from a database in parallel using parallel streams and Speedment, which can lead to significant speed increases.
The instructions on Apache and Sonatype's sites are pretty good at helping get a library released to Maven central. But it can be a bit painful. Read on to find out more.
What's the best way to add socket communications to your Node.js application? That's hard to say, but in this article, Cliff Hall shows you one quick and easy way to do it.
Follow one dev's thoughts on how you should handle exceptions, ranging from dealing with your catch blocks to using try-with-resources to avoiding using them at all.