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Authentication Provider Best Practices: Centralized Login

Centralized login protocols are easier to implement and maintain, and are better for the user, while creating a more secure authentication process.

December 25, 2017

by Kim Maida

· 13,877 Views · 1 Like

The Death of the Architect

What's the use of all the superfluous, vague titling, anyway? Author/writer/blogger/essayist Yogeshwar Srikrishnan makes a case for simplicity.

December 24, 2017

by Yogeshwar Srikrishnan

· 33,158 Views · 72 Likes

Optimizing AWS EBS Using LVM

Linux's Logical Volume Manager is an older tool, but it can still be useful today. See how you can use it to help right-size your EBS usage and save money.

December 24, 2017

by Jack Huang

· 12,919 Views · 6 Likes

Understanding Server-Sent Events (SSE) as Part of the API Landscape

Server-sent events can be a positive boon for any web application. In this post, we take a look at how SSEs fit into the world of APIs.

December 23, 2017

by Kin Lane

· 14,186 Views · 3 Likes

Multi-Release JARs: Good or Bad Idea?

The folks at Gradle feel that Java 9's multi-release JARs are a poor solution to a real problem for library designers. See how to create an MRJAR and why you shouldn't.

December 23, 2017

by Cédric Champeau

· 20,520 Views · 16 Likes

Installing the ELK Stack on AWS: A Step-by-Step Guide

Want to bring in the ELK stack for your AWS logging and monitoring needs? This guide will get you set up with the open source solution.

December 22, 2017

by Asaf Yigal

· 44,120 Views · 8 Likes

Custom Error Handling Framework for an Enterprise Using MuleSoft

Learn how to make that Mule gallop like a horse by creating your own custom exception handling framework for your MuleSoft app.

December 22, 2017

by Rakesh Kumar Jha

· 13,319 Views · 4 Likes

Synchronized Mule Batch Processing

This tutorial will teach you the steps to set up synchronized batch processing in a Mule application to send batch reporting figures back to the flow.

December 21, 2017

by Deepak Kushwaha

· 21,456 Views · 3 Likes

How to Generate Your Avro Schema Automatically

Today, I'll explain how you can use the Schema Generator to automatically create Avro schemas with the basic Taxi tutorial pipeline.

December 21, 2017

by Pat Patterson

· 50,878 Views · 4 Likes

Ring Buffer: A Data Structure Behind Disruptor

In this article, we look at Disruptor, a library for passing messages between threads, and look at how it's data structure enables high performance.

December 21, 2017

by Grzegorz Mirek

· 24,779 Views · 6 Likes

The Evolution of EC2 Network Performance: m3, m4, and m5

So, are AWS EC2's fancy new m5 instances worth it? In a word: yes. See the performance impact and cost savings you can expect.

December 21, 2017

by Andreas Wittig

· 12,442 Views · 4 Likes

When Monolithic Is the Way: Play vs. Spring Boot vs. Grails

This article reviews the benefits of using a monolithic structure for your project, and choosing which framework to use based on features and documentation.

December 20, 2017

by Marini Fabio

· 38,021 Views · 10 Likes

What You Can Expect as a Client, From SOAP to gRPC

We take a quick but insightful look at what you can expect as a client consuming one of the several forms of API implementations. Read on and let us know what you think!

December 20, 2017

by Kin Lane

· 8,088 Views · 2 Likes

Install oh-my-zsh on Windows

This tutorial is for Windows users who want to set up oh-my-zsh, an open source framework for managing your z shell, or ZSH, configuration.

December 20, 2017

by Michal Bocek

· 29,092 Views · 2 Likes

Row Level Security in Hibernate Using @Filter

Learn how to give certain people permission to view certain parts of your database, and thus increase your database's security.

December 20, 2017

by Ali Akbar Azizkhani

· 22,802 Views · 12 Likes

Highly Available Docker Registry on AWS With Nexus

Want a place to keep your Docker images that won't fail when the chips are down? See how you can create an HA repo on AWS using Nexus.

December 20, 2017

by Mohamed Labouardy

· 11,516 Views · 5 Likes

Data Transformation: CSV to XML With Apache Camel

Learn how to convert a CSV message into XML using Camel Apache Processor, or from any format into another, with code examples.

Updated December 19, 2017

by Jitendra Bafna

· 41,974 Views · 7 Likes

Communicating Between Microservices

Inter-service communication is essential to consider when building microservices. Learn about the characteristics and benefits of different communication styles.

December 19, 2017

by Piotr Mińkowski

· 199,403 Views · 119 Likes

Data Transformation: XML to JSON And JSON to XML With Apache Camel

In this tutorial, you will learn how to achieve data transformation by converting XML to JSON and JSON to XML with Apache Camel.

December 19, 2017

by Jitendra Bafna

· 57,109 Views · 7 Likes

Check out this great article on to learn how to create authentication and authorization protocols in your web application using ASP.NET.

December 19, 2017

by Kelvin Santos Amorim

· 45,187 Views · 4 Likes

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