Software Design and Architecture Resources

Go Microservices, Part 8: Centralized Configuration With Viper and Spring Cloud Config

Learn how to centralize essential aspects of your microservices project, such as logs, with Spring Cloud Config.

March 15, 2018

by Erik Lupander

· 17,953 Views · 6 Likes

How to Handle Alerts Using Katalon Studio

Alerts have become a big part of the way people interact with web pages. Read on to see how to use this free tool to make the process of creating alerts a little easier.

March 15, 2018

by Oliver Howard

· 11,020 Views · 3 Likes

How Synchronization Works in Java (Part 2)

This lesson in Java synchronization tackles synchronized methods, rather than blocks, and how synchronized operations work.

March 14, 2018

by Abdul Mohsin

· 16,532 Views · 8 Likes

Common Mistakes in REST API Design

Designing and developing a REST API is tricky business. Read on for some common pitfalls you should make sure to avoid during the design process.

March 14, 2018

by Denny Zhang

· 24,019 Views · 17 Likes

Generating Laplace Distributed Random Values

Although it's simple to generate Laplacian random values, the Laplace distribution is not always one of the built-in options for random number generation libraries.

March 14, 2018

by John Cook

· 5,831 Views · 3 Likes

Hello OpenJ9 on Windows, I Didn’t Expect You so Soon!

Move over HotSpot, there's a new JVM on the block. See how to get OpenJ9 running on Windows and how it can help with your Java projects.

March 14, 2018

by Holger Voormann

· 18,861 Views · 10 Likes

Go Microservices, Part 7: Service Discovery and Load Balancing

Continue on your microservice development journey by learning how to set up service discovery and load balancing in your new service.

March 14, 2018

by Erik Lupander

· 25,601 Views · 9 Likes

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

· 74,473 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

· 17,426 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

· 28,880 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

· 5,835 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

· 70,515 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

· 15,137 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

· 12,351 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

· 65,683 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

· 8,826 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

· 18,907 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

· 14,665 Views · 6 Likes