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Monitor Service Uptime With Heartbeat and the ELK Stack

The newest official addition to the Beats family, Heartbeat, probes services to check if they are reachable or not. See how it works with the ELK stack.

May 8, 2017

by Daniel Berman

· 20,894 Views

Integrating Gatling Into a Gradle Build: Understanding SourceSets and Configuration

Gradle sourceSets are logical groupings of related files. Configurations are groupings of related dependencies. Using both, we can create some neat build configurations.

May 8, 2017

by Biju Kunjummen

· 14,003 Views · 2 Likes

What's New in Java 9? (Besides Modules)

Java 9 is about the modularization of the JDK (known as Project Jigsaw). But like previous releases, it is also about lots of other features.

May 8, 2017

by Mahmoud Anouti

· 77,760 Views · 75 Likes

HAProxy Performance Tweaks: sysctl and config

Learn about the changes you should make to sysctl and HAProxy configurations to improve the performance of your entire setup.

May 7, 2017

by Nadine Arnold

· 17,270 Views · 3 Likes

Intercepting Messages on TCP/IP in Mule

This tutorial will walk you through the steps of setting Mule to transform and intercept messages in real time with Anypoint Studio.

May 6, 2017

by Sumit Bansal

· 6,941 Views · 1 Like

How to Create a KeyStore in PKCS12 Format

In this article, we continue our series on SSL certificates, by introducing the PKCS12 Format and how to use it to create a KeyStore in OpenSSL.

May 5, 2017

by Rishabh Verma

· 89,443 Views · 3 Likes

TLS/SSL Explained: Examples of a TLS Vulnerability and Attack, Final Part

In the final part of our series, we look at some of the worst attacks than can be carried out against an insecure SSL/TLS network, and how to stop them.

May 5, 2017

by Agathoklis Prodromou

· 16,712 Views · 15 Likes

Getting Started With Kubernetes and Redis using Redis Enterprise

Enjoy using Redis clusters? Well, their Docker container makes it a perfect match for Kubernetes' orchestration capabilities, ensuring availability.

May 4, 2017

by Cihan B.

· 15,414 Views · 6 Likes

Best Practices for Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic monitoring is a way to see the performance of SaaS and web apps and networks using scripting to emulate the paths that end users take as they experience an app.

May 3, 2017

by Alec Pinkham

· 4,097 Views · 1 Like

Creating an AWS Service Proxy for Amazon SQS

Want to use SQS without AWS Lambda functions? Get ready to dive into API Gateway so you can send and receive messages while securing them with IAM roles.

May 3, 2017

by Reza Motevalli

· 65,265 Views · 9 Likes

HBase Backup Process: Explained

Learn about how to take HBase backup of HBase data and tables in Hortonworks Sandbox 2.5. and all of the different ways that a backup can be taken for HBase datasets.

May 2, 2017

by Jose Praveen

· 12,166 Views · 10 Likes

Connecting Google Spreadsheet APIs With Mule ESB

Google's API lets you communicate with their integration services. Learn to configure and connect Mule ESB with Google API, with code and a video tutorial.

May 2, 2017

by Jitendra Bafna

CORE

· 8,067 Views · 2 Likes

Java Service Loader vs. Spring Factories Loader

Java and Spring offer loading capabilities to achieve IoC at the module level. They are pretty similar, with Spring being a little more flexible.

May 2, 2017

by Nicolas Fränkel

CORE

· 31,362 Views · 12 Likes

Introducing Semantic Web Programming (Part I)

In this article, we take a quick introductory look at Semantic Web and RDF programming, and how to set up your dev environment.

May 2, 2017

by Ngoc Minh Tran

CORE

· 9,566 Views · 5 Likes

Database Versioning With Flyway and Java

Flyway makes database versioning almost trivially easy. You can put migration scripts in a directory of choice and the database will be magically migrated for you.

May 2, 2017

by Bruno Krebs

· 45,000 Views · 4 Likes

Development Environments for Microservices

How do you set up the most productive environment for coding and testing, especially when the service in question depends upon other resources and services?

May 1, 2017

by Itamar Turner-Trauring

· 33,632 Views · 14 Likes

MUnit Testing With Mulesoft: Part II (Mock Message Processor)

The Mock component is useful in various scenarios of Mule application testing. In this part of the series, we will see how to use the Mock component in an MUnit test.

May 1, 2017

by Jitendra Bafna

CORE

· 25,163 Views · 4 Likes

How to Load Test TCP Protocol Services With JMeter

Learn how to test a simple TCP server that works in the echo mode (in other words, the server responds with the same data that has been sent to it).

May 1, 2017

by Konsantine Firsanov

· 40,226 Views · 6 Likes

AWS Lambda: Programmatically Scheduling a CloudWatch Event

AWS Lambda is a solid serverless option, but setting up automatically scheduled events might not be intuitive. Let's see how CloudWatch can solve the problem.

May 1, 2017

by Mark Needham

· 20,589 Views · 4 Likes

Understanding When to Use RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka are two of the most popular messaging technologies on the market today. Get the insight you need to choose the right software for you.

May 1, 2017

by Pieter Humphrey

CORE

· 67,224 Views · 46 Likes

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