Software Design and Architecture Resources

Vertical Scaling and Horizontal Scaling in AWS

Vertical and horizontal scaling are two distinct ways of ramping up your cloud capabilities, depending on the amount of traffic you recieve.

March 14, 2018

by Jignesh Solanki

· 73,682 Views · 10 Likes

Secure .NET Core Applications From ClickJacking: .NET Core Security Part III

We continue our look at .NET Core security by examining ClickJacking and how to prevent this type of cyberattack in your web app.

March 13, 2018

by Neel Bhatt

· 16,543 Views · 3 Likes

Logging to AWS Cloudwatch Logs

Learn how to easily configure the slf4j logging framework to use AWS Cloudwatch to store your logs, for AWS or on-premise.

March 13, 2018

by Dieter Bogdoll

· 28,420 Views · 4 Likes

Investigating Problems With Ad-Hoc Queries Using SQL Monitor

There are plenty of ways that apps can unintentionally misuse databases. When the abuses are pervasive, you can catch them by means of a few deft queries on various DMOs.

March 13, 2018

by Phil Factor

· 5,470 Views · 2 Likes

Microservices - Part 4: Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker Using Netflix Hystrix

This microservices tutorial continues by showing how to set up a circuit breaker to fix potential issues from microservice dependencies.

March 13, 2018

by Siva Prasad Reddy Katamreddy

· 70,012 Views · 22 Likes

WSO2 API Manager 2.1.0 - Cheat Sheet

In this post, we check out the WSO2 API Manager and look at how it can help make the lives of developers a little easier when working with APIs.

March 13, 2018

by Chanaka Fernando

CORE

· 14,676 Views · 7 Likes

HA and Zone Affinity With Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka

This microservices tutorial will teach you how to set up zone affinity with Spring Cloud Netflix Eureka.

March 13, 2018

by Marcos Barbero

CORE

· 11,973 Views · 5 Likes

Introducing Spring Boot

We go over a quick conceptual introduction to Spring Boot before moving on and developing a REST API using this Java-based framework.

March 13, 2018

by Hussein Terek

· 64,380 Views · 38 Likes

Microservices? Yes, but No Spaghetti, Please!

Microservices bring many benefits, but make sure you're not adding more complexity than you need and getting bogged down with spaghetti code.

March 13, 2018

by Peter Eijgermans

· 8,243 Views · 5 Likes

How to Implement Data-Driven Testing in your JMeter Test

One of the many advantages of DDT is that the tester mustn't create a separate test for each piece of input data. Here's how it works.

March 13, 2018

by Sergey Horban

· 18,288 Views · 1 Like

MySQL 8 vs. MariaDB: Comparison of Window Functions and CTEs

Window functions and CTEs have been a mainstay of many popular DB products for some time now. With the release of MySQL v8 and MariaDB 10.2.0, both vendors have caught up with competing DBMSes.

March 12, 2018

by Shree Nair

· 13,977 Views · 6 Likes

Spring Boot 2.0 on ACID! Big Data + Spring Boot

Here is a guide to using Spring Boot 2.0 with Apache Hive LLAP ACID tables to make the most of a Big Data pipeline.

March 12, 2018

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 44,932 Views · 17 Likes

Replacing commons-lang ToStringBuilder With Eclipse

Want to get the benefit of Apache's commons-lang ToStringBuilder class, but don't want to add the dependency? Here's how to do it with Eclipse.

March 12, 2018

by Gabriel Belingueres

· 8,980 Views · 2 Likes

Microservices - Part 3: Spring Cloud Service Registry and Discovery

Learn about setting up service registry and discovery or your Spring Cloud and Spring Boot microservices development.

March 10, 2018

by Siva Prasad Reddy Katamreddy

· 31,580 Views · 21 Likes

Traffic Shadowing With Istio: Reducing the Risk of Code Release

Istio.io can control the routing of traffic between services, making it valuable for traffic control in applications with microservices.

March 9, 2018

by Christian Posta

· 14,551 Views · 1 Like

Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics: When to Use Which

Monitoring your resources is vital to being able to detect issues or opportunities for performance improvements. When it comes to Azure the monitoring story ...

March 9, 2018

by Sam Cogan

· 30,369 Views · 2 Likes

The Types of Modern Databases

Where do you begin in choosing a database? We've looked at both NoSQL and relational database management systems to come up with a bird's eye view of both ecosystems to get you started.

Updated March 9, 2018

by John Hammink

· 59,017 Views · 14 Likes

Active-Active Application Architectures with MongoDB: Part 2

The second part of this two-part series explores the categories of database architectures and their pros and cons, then focuses on evaluating MongoDB.

March 9, 2018

by Jay Runkel

· 13,502 Views · 2 Likes