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Creating a Real-Time Chat App With Redis, Node.js, and Socket.io

If you have Redis, Node.js, and the Heroku toolbelt installed on your machine, then you've got everything you need to build a real-time chat application.

January 23, 2017

by Neeraj Chinthireddy

· 75,862 Views · 2 Likes

Testing Spring Data Couchbase Apps With TestContainers

Docker doesn't always play nicely with your apps, but learning how to configure your work for testing can help ease the pain.

January 23, 2017

by Laurent Doguin

· 6,075 Views · 1 Like

Scheduling Statistics Maintenance in Azure SQL Data Warehouse

You can leverage your Azure SQL Data Warehouse to automate some of your maintenance. Creating a Runbook will let you schedule to your hearts content.

January 23, 2017

by Grant Fritchey

· 4,128 Views · 2 Likes

How to Load Test OpenId Secured Websites

OpenId enables users to be authenticated using a single ID. The OpenId provider (OP) is the third party that authenticates a user signing in with an identificator.

January 22, 2017

by Konsantine Firsanov

· 8,986 Views · 3 Likes

Dan Bricklin: The Inventor of the Electronic Spreadsheet [Video]

Steve Jobs once told an interviewer that “if VisiCalc had been developed for another computer, you’d be interviewing somebody else.”

January 21, 2017

by Amy Groden-Morrison

· 4,781 Views · 3 Likes

MuleSoft: Salesforce.com and Bulk API Query with Primary Key (PK) Chunking

It takes some grit work to get a mass amount of data from Salesforce.com using the Bulk API and PK chunking in Mule flows.

January 20, 2017

by Timothy Teller

· 19,086 Views · 8 Likes

Java Performance Monitoring: 5 Open Source Tools You Should Know

Stagemonitor, Pinpoint, MoSKito, Glowroot, and Kamon are all promising open source Java monitoring tools. See where they can be best put to use.

January 19, 2017

by Henn Idan

· 91,539 Views · 39 Likes

REST vs. TCP

With HTTP, each call is stateless and I can’t assume anything about the other side. With TCP, on the other hand, I can make a lot of assumptions about the conversation.

January 19, 2017

by Oren Eini

· 21,673 Views · 6 Likes

Working With REST in Oracle JET

In the final article to his comprehensive series on learning Oracle JET, Chris Muir goes over the Oracle JET Common Model & Collection API, a client-side JavaScript API for accessing remote REST web services and plugging them into our JET UI components.

January 19, 2017

by Chris Muir

· 27,781 Views · 4 Likes

A Revolutionary Solution to Java Deserialization Attacks

This article will provide background on the deserialization vulnerability and describe the limitations of the existing mitigation techniques.

Updated January 18, 2017

by Apostolos Giannakidis

CORE

· 27,791 Views · 11 Likes

Top 5 Reasons for CI Failure

Using a poor-quality server wastes everyone's time because the build takes too long to finish, resulting in intermittent test results and frustrated engineers.

January 18, 2017

by Shashikant Jagtap

· 30,680 Views · 2 Likes

Running Microservices on Top of In-Memory Data Grid: Part II

Let's look into the Apache Ignite Cluster Layer, a GitHub project that includes the basic building blocks needed to implement a proposed microservices-based architecture.

January 18, 2017

by Denis Magda

CORE

· 12,165 Views · 7 Likes

Searching and Indexing With Apache Lucene

Apache Lucene's indexing and searching capabilities make it attractive for any number of uses—development or academic. See an example of how the search engine works.

January 18, 2017

by Md. Rezaul Karim

· 116,176 Views · 8 Likes

Finding the Best Java ORM Framework for PostgreSQL

This rundown of popular Java ORMs outlines which ones work best with PostgreSQL while supporting JSON and considering ease of use.

January 17, 2017

by Václav Kužel

· 86,095 Views · 20 Likes

An Overview of APIs and API Management

An API is anything that acts an interface to the outside world or to an external program. API management is critical to the effective usage of APIs.

January 17, 2017

by Akkiraju Ivaturi

· 23,219 Views · 8 Likes

Creating Your Own E-Mail Service With Haraka, PostgreSQL, and AWS S3

There are many paid email services out there that offer various integration features. However, most of the time, they aren’t 100% customizable to one’s requirements.

January 16, 2017

by Thihara Neranjya

· 17,989 Views · 2 Likes

Benefits of Software Architecture

Having software architecture means having architectural integrity, short-term and strategic guidelines, manageable complexity, and reduced maintenance costs.

January 16, 2017

by Ekaterina Novoseltseva

CORE

· 15,237 Views · 11 Likes

Spring Boot and Cache Abstraction With Hazelcast

Once you've mastered the basics of cache abstraction with Spring, consider moving onto Hazelcast for more options while incorporating a time-to-live policy.

January 16, 2017

by Emmanouil Gkatziouras

CORE

· 34,951 Views · 7 Likes

How to Use Postman to Manage and Execute Your APIs

Postman is convenient for executing APIs because once you’ve entered and saved them, you can use them over and over again without having to remember exact information.

January 16, 2017

by Jacob Sharir

· 56,183 Views · 13 Likes

Top 17 Tools Used in Software Development

From Docker to Slack and even Spotify, these are the top seventeen tools that can be incredibly useful to software developers.

January 15, 2017

by Lea Maya Karam

· 134,733 Views · 27 Likes

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