Software Design and Architecture Resources

Why Premature Optimization Is the Root of All Evil

It's a famous saying in computer science, but why exactly is it true? We take a look at the reasons why it is in this post.

November 29, 2017

by Matt Watson

· 8,576 Views · 7 Likes

Quick Start With Apache Livy

Learn how to get started with Apache Livy, a project in the process of being incubated by Apache that interacts with Apache Spark through a REST interface.

November 28, 2017

by Guglielmo Iozzia

· 47,871 Views · 7 Likes

Azure WebJobs vs. Azure Functions

This side-by-side comparison considers when to use WebJobs over Azure Functions and vice versa as well as trends to consider for the future.

November 28, 2017

by Simon Timms

· 10,795 Views · 3 Likes

Build a Secure SPA With Spring Boot and OAuth

Learn how to build a secure SPA using Spring Boot and OAuth while using a Spring Boot starter to get additional support for validation and authority mapping.

Updated November 28, 2017

by Brian Demers

· 32,147 Views · 33 Likes

Security Testing With JMeter - Learn How

A professional security tester shows us how to use the open source tool JMeter to perform security tests on our web applications.

November 27, 2017

by Roman Aladev

· 12,569 Views · 3 Likes

Add User Management to Your Play Framework App With OIDC

This dive into Play Framework explores how you can bring user management to your app using Okta, pac4j, and OpenID Connect.

November 27, 2017

by Matt Raible

· 10,993 Views · 3 Likes

How to Perform Arithmetic Operations on Numeric Variables When Load Testing

Testers often need to conduct arithmetic operations on variables in load or functional testing. See how to accomplish this with JMeter.

November 27, 2017

by Sergey Horban

· 9,288 Views · 3 Likes

Spring Web Service to Securely Transfer SOAP Request and Response Call

In this post, we explore the way in which you can apply encryption to a SOAP request and response call using a 256-bit key.

November 27, 2017

by Shrisowdhaman Selvaraj

· 14,552 Views · 6 Likes

AWS IoT: Retrieving SQS Messages From a Queue

Let's set up an AWS IoT Rule to call an AWS Lambda function triggered by MQTT messages. See how it's configured with this step-by-step guides.

November 27, 2017

by Kevin Hooke

· 8,609 Views · 4 Likes

MySQL and Linux Context Switches

I often get questions about what is an acceptable number of context switches and at what point you should worry. Here are my answers to those questions!

November 26, 2017

by Peter Zaitsev

· 9,118 Views · 4 Likes

MicroProfile: 5 Things You Need to Know

Here is everything you need to know about the ongoing design, philosophy, and process of developing the MicroProfile initiative.

November 26, 2017

by Alex Theedom

· 56,307 Views · 5 Likes

Spring Boot Plus Apache Ignite Data Grid

Learn how to integrate Spring Boot with Apache Ignite to use Ignite's persistent durable memory feature and execute SQL queries over Ignite caches.

November 26, 2017

by Mahmoud Romeh

· 33,791 Views · 9 Likes

Batch Processing in Mule 4 vs. Mule 3

Learn about the improvements to batch jobs from Mule 3 to Mule 4, and how to to run batch jobs with these new capabilities.

November 25, 2017

by Manik Magar

· 38,807 Views · 4 Likes

Publishing Messages From a Web App to an AWS SQS Queue via AWS Lambda

In the ever-expanding list of ways AWS Lambda can help, we see how to use it to publish your web app's messages to AWS SQS.

Updated November 24, 2017

by Kevin Hooke

· 12,258 Views · 2 Likes

Azure NSG Flow Logs Analysis With the ELK Stack

If you haven't had a chance to explore Azure's Network Watcher, including the Network Security Group Flow logs, here's how to get the ELK integrated for analysis.

Updated November 24, 2017

by Daniel Berman

· 8,326 Views · 2 Likes